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Gururaj “Desh” Deshpande
President and Chairman of Sparta Group LLC; Chairman of A123 Systems (AONE), Sycamore Networks (SCMR), Tejas Networks, and HiveFire
Founding investor in Airvana, Cimaron, Webdialogs and Relicore
Founder and Chairman of Cascade Communications Corp.
Member of the MIT Corporation
B.Tech. in EE IIT – Madras | M.E. in EE University of New Brunswick – Canada
Ph.D. in Data Communications from Queens University in Canada
Jaishree Deshpande
Treasurer of Sparta Group LLC and founder of the Deshpande Foundation
Serves as a trustee for the Museum of Science and is involved with HESTIA Fund
Worked for the Indian Space Research Organization in Bangalore
Masters in Physics in 1975 from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras
Second Masters in Computer Science in 1989 from Boston University
