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1. PHILANTHROPIST
ROMESH T WADHWANI
PRESENTED BY,
SINI CHINNU THOMAS
GROUP NO 6

2. PROFILE
ROMESH T WADHWANI
BORN 1947
RESIDENCE PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA
CITIZENSHIP UNITED STATES
EDUCATION IIT BOMBAY CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY
OCCUPATION FOUNDER & CHAIRMAN OF SYMPHONOY
TECHONOLGY GROUP
NET WORTH $2 BILLION(2012)

3. ABOUT ROMESH T
WADHWANI
 Romesh T wadhwani is the founder’ chairman and CEO of symphony
Technology Group.
 Wadhwani is a philanthropist who plans to give away much of his wealth.
 He established the wadhwani foundation with the mission of accelerating
economic development in the emerging economies, with an initial focus
on India.
 Foundation has also launched as us-India policy initiative, with
Rick Inderfurth, previously Assistant Secretary of state, as the
wadhwani chair at the centre for strategic and international
studies.

4. CAREER
 Wadhwani is Executive Chairman of Symphony Teleca
Corporation, MSC Software Inc., Symphony Health
solutions Inc., and Shopzilla Inc. and is also
on the board of Information Resource inc . Wadhwani is
also the largest limited partner in each of Symphony’s
private equity funds, the third of which closed recently
at $870 million.

5. WADHWANI FOUNDATION

6.  Foundation’s primary mission is economic acceleration of emerging
economies.
 The foundation embarked upon its mission in India first, and
subsequently, the foundation has expanded into the U.S and other
countries.
 During the last decade, Wadhwani Foundation has launched five
niche, high impact initiatives in India
 India an opportunity to become the global talent supplier.
Catalyzing job creation and skill development become the two
primary target areas of focus for the foundation.
 To address persistently high youth and displaced workers
unemployment in U.S , Wadhwani foundation launched the
“RACE TO A JOB”

7. THANK
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