Pradeep Kar | |
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![]() Kar, during a conference in 2016 | |
Born | [1] | March 11, 1958
Nationality | Indian |
Alma mater |
Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology S.P. Jain Institute of Management & Research |
Occupation(s) | Chairman and Managing Director of Microland |
Years active | 1989-present |
Spouse | Kalpana Kar [2] |
Children | Pranika Kar [2] |
Website |
www |
Pradeep Kar (born March 11, 1958) is the Founder, Chairman and Managing Director of Microland, a digital transformation company. [3] [4] [5] [6] Kar also founded and sold three technology companies, including Indya.com, which he sold to Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation; [7] Planetasia.com, India’s first internet professional services company and Net Brahma Technologies. [8]
Pradeep is also associated with the Bengaluru Literature Festival. [9]
Kar graduated from Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology in 1981, and then received a master's degree in business administration from S.P. Jain Institute of Management & Research. He joined Wipro and soon relocated to US to run Sonata Software for three years. Returning to India he founded Microland, where he has served as the Chairman until now. [10] [11] [12]
He also started Planetasia.com, ITspace.com, [13] Media2India.com, and Indya.com which were sold to take advantage of the dotcom bubble. [14] [15] [16]
Kar has been recognized with the Indian Express ‘India Young Business Achiever Award’ [17] and was selected by the World Economic Forum as a ‘Global Leader for Tomorrow’. [18] He has been featured in ‘Newsweek International’ as ‘Stars of Asia’ and in ‘Business India’ as ‘Stars of India’. [19]
Kar served as a Non-Executive Director of UBM plc., [20] a global events-led marketing and communications services business listed on the London Stock Exchange for 10 years from 2006 to 2016, and is on the Board of Telstra Telecommunications India. He is a member of the Provost's Council of Trinity College, Dublin, [21] and serves as Chairman of the Governing Council of Srishti Institute of Art, Design & Technology, Bangalore. [22] He was President of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), Bangalore Chapter [23] and Founding Member of the Bangalore Chapter of the Young Presidents Organization. He chairs the Infrastructure Management Services Forum of NASSCOM, [24] the apex body of the Indian software & services industry
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Pradeep Kar | |
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![]() Kar, during a conference in 2016 | |
Born | [1] | March 11, 1958
Nationality | Indian |
Alma mater |
Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology S.P. Jain Institute of Management & Research |
Occupation(s) | Chairman and Managing Director of Microland |
Years active | 1989-present |
Spouse | Kalpana Kar [2] |
Children | Pranika Kar [2] |
Website |
www |
Pradeep Kar (born March 11, 1958) is the Founder, Chairman and Managing Director of Microland, a digital transformation company. [3] [4] [5] [6] Kar also founded and sold three technology companies, including Indya.com, which he sold to Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation; [7] Planetasia.com, India’s first internet professional services company and Net Brahma Technologies. [8]
Pradeep is also associated with the Bengaluru Literature Festival. [9]
Kar graduated from Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology in 1981, and then received a master's degree in business administration from S.P. Jain Institute of Management & Research. He joined Wipro and soon relocated to US to run Sonata Software for three years. Returning to India he founded Microland, where he has served as the Chairman until now. [10] [11] [12]
He also started Planetasia.com, ITspace.com, [13] Media2India.com, and Indya.com which were sold to take advantage of the dotcom bubble. [14] [15] [16]
Kar has been recognized with the Indian Express ‘India Young Business Achiever Award’ [17] and was selected by the World Economic Forum as a ‘Global Leader for Tomorrow’. [18] He has been featured in ‘Newsweek International’ as ‘Stars of Asia’ and in ‘Business India’ as ‘Stars of India’. [19]
Kar served as a Non-Executive Director of UBM plc., [20] a global events-led marketing and communications services business listed on the London Stock Exchange for 10 years from 2006 to 2016, and is on the Board of Telstra Telecommunications India. He is a member of the Provost's Council of Trinity College, Dublin, [21] and serves as Chairman of the Governing Council of Srishti Institute of Art, Design & Technology, Bangalore. [22] He was President of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), Bangalore Chapter [23] and Founding Member of the Bangalore Chapter of the Young Presidents Organization. He chairs the Infrastructure Management Services Forum of NASSCOM, [24] the apex body of the Indian software & services industry
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