- Merrimack Valley Sandbox Hosts Summit on June 11th
- Bringing together for-profit execution excellence with the compassion of a nonprofit
- Deshpande Foundation to host 6th annual Development Dialogue in Hubli from Jan 30th to February 1st, 2013
- Master of Social Entrepreneurship program launched by Deshpande Education Trust in India
- Merrimack Valley Sandbox to host Development Dialog on April 25 and 26, 2012
Desh Deshpande
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Gururaj “Desh” Deshpande
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Desh Deshpande is the President and Chairman of Sparta Group LLC, and Chairman of A123 Systems (AONE), Sycamore Networks (SCMR), Tejas Networks and HiveFire.
Prior to co-founding Sycamore Networks, Dr. Deshpande was founder and chairman of Cascade Communications Corp.
Dr. Deshpande holds a B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology – Madras, an M.E. from the University of New Brunswick in Canada, and Ph.D from Queens University in Canada.
Dr. Deshpande serves as a life-member of the MIT Corporation, and his generous support has made possible MIT’s Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation.
Leveraging the experience gained at the MIT Center, the Deshpande Foundation has helped establish three other centers; Deshpande Center for Social Entrepreneurship in India, Merrimack Valley Social Entrepreneurship Sandbox in Lowell/Lawrence Massachusetts and Pond-Deshpande Center at the University of New Brunswick in Canada.
Dr. Deshpande co-chairs a National Council to support President Obama’s innovation and entrepreneurship strategy.
