Ashok Trivedi

Chairman, Trustees

Ashok Trivedi is a seasoned entrepreneur and a visionary thinker. Over the last 30 years, Ashok has been involved in recognizing impactful discontinuities in the technology business landscape. He co-founded Mastech Corporation in the late eighties - a breakthrough technology company that focused on Open Systems Computing which later paved the way for client-server technologies. In 2000, Ashok co-founded iGATE Corporation that spearheaded an operating model discontinuity in the IT services business and gained a pole-position, offering IT and business processes on an outcomes-driven model.

In 15 years, iGATE's revenues rose to $1.3 billion and was acquired by Capgemini in July, 2015 for $4.2 billion. Mastech today, is on a path of transformation into a digital technologies company. His vision and forethought in technology services has resulted in significant job creation and positive social impact globally.

As the Managing Partner of SWAT Capital, Ashok is responsible for managing investments for the Trivedi Family Office (Trivedi Family Foundation and The Trivedi Family Charitable Trust). He has been an angel investor in over 50 early stage technology and financial services businesses including Edelweiss Capital, Cvent and CBay and has led the launch of over 10 new IT services businesses in emerging technologies.

Ashok is the Founder and Trustee of the recently launched Ashoka University, a private, nonprofit university that offers its students a multidisciplinary liberal education, one that transcends the boundaries between the arts and sciences.

Ashok is also the Founder and President of the Pittsburg chapter of TiE - a global community promoting entrepreneurship and the Founding Member of the Indian Angel Network.

Ashok holds an MBA from the Ohio University and a Master's in Physics from the Delhi University. He has attended the Owner/President Management Program at the Harvard Business School. He is honored with the "E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year" award among others.

Ashok enjoys traveling, reading and golfing.

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