IT Legend- breif story Anant Koppar is a technocrat businessman from Karnataka, India. He was
the Founder President of Kshema Technologies, one of India''s first venture capital funded
software services companies. He is currently started a new company called K2 Technology solutions. Earlier he was the President of the Technologies Division of MphasiS post the acquisition of Kshema by MphasiS.
Background
He is from the north karanataka i.e., Gadag. He is one of the success stories and a role model for people coming from rural middle class backgrounds for corporate success.
His Qualifications: Masters Degree in Computer Engineering from IIT Kharagpur, he started his career in Wipro. He has also worked as a lecturer in an engineering college. He further went on to be a part of the teams that set up Tata Elxsi and BFL Software now known as MphasiS BFL Limited.
Anant Koppar founded Kshema Technologies in 1997 and grew it to large niche technology services provider in 6 years. Kshema has the distinction of being a pioneer in the software services industry to cater to Industrial Automation, Healthcare, Life Sciences and Mobile Telephony industries. Kshema merged with MphasiS in 2004.
Presently Anant lives in Bangalore with his wife Mrs. Kalpana Koppar and two children Shashbindu and Shronuttara.
Achievements
A certified "Project Management Professional" by Project Management Institute, Anant Koppar was the first CEO in India to get this certification.
Anant Koppar was awarded the “Entrepreneur of the District” distinction by the Gadag District Chamber of Commerce in the year 2000. He was also recognized as “Entrepreneur Extraordinaire” at the Asian Conference for Young Entrepreneurs in 1999.
He is also an immediate past President of Bangalore Chamber of Industry (http://www.convergentindia.com/gmci/index.asp) and Commerce and past President of PMI Bangalore Chapter (http://www.pmibangalorechapter.org/).
He loves art, collecting paintings and also preparing Bisibele Bath- a famous South Indian Dish.