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Founders

About Us   |  Founders

Gururaj “Desh” Deshpande

  • President and Chairman of Sparta Group LLC and Chairman of Tejas Networks.
  • Founding investor in Airvana, Cimaron, Webdialogs and Relicore
  • Co-founder and Chairman of Sycamore Networks, Inc.
  • 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

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Jaishree

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

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