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Neerja and Bharat are known for their hard work for building a company like Syngel.

Neerja Sethi is a co-founder of Syntel, a prominent IT advisory and outsourcing company based in the USA. She started her career at Ratan Tata's Tata TCS. From 2025, its real-time networks will be more than $ 1 billion. In 2024 she was in 27th place in Forbes' list of the richest homemade women in America. It was 2,692 in the list of the richest individuals in the world.

Syntel was founded in 1980 in Troy, Michigan, with her husband Bharat Desai. Neerja and Bharat started syntel from their small apartment in Michigan with an initial investment of USD 16,000 (approx. 13,28,000 rupees). In the first year, the company generated sales of $ 30,000 (around 24.90 rupees).

In 2018, the company was taken over by the French IT company ATOS SE for 3.4 billion US dollars (28,690 rupees). According to the acquisition, Neerja earned around 510 million US dollars (4.233 billion rupees) of their operations in the company. She did not continue with ATOS after the sale.

Who is Bharat Desai?

Bharat Desai, Neerja's husband, is an Indian-American billionaire who was with her co-founder of Syngel. He was born in Kenya and grew up in India. He made his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering on IIT Bombay and later made MBA in finance from the University of Michigan. In 1976 Bharat moved to the USA and worked as a programmer at TCS.

Bharat 'and Neerjas shared dream of building their own company, and finally they made Syntel. According to media reports, Bharat's net assets are 1.63 billion US dollars (13,501 rupees and at the list of 2,111. Ruppien on the list of billionaires. The couple lives on Fisher Island, Florida and an American citizenship.