Pradeep Kar

Pradeep Kar is an Indian businessman is chairman and managing director of Microland which he founded in 1989. Microland is one of India’s leading providers of outsourced infrastructure anagement and technical support services, employing more than 2,100 staff. Pradeep Kar is the 2006 President of the Bangalore chapter of TiE, The IndUS Entrepreneurs. He is an alumnus of the Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur.

Pradeep holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering and a Post Graduate degree in Management from SP Jain Institute of Management & Research, Mumbai.

More complete profiles of Pradeep exist on Microland's website [http://www.microland.com/Pradeep%20Kar.html] and United Business Media's websiteCite web|url=http://www.unitedbusinessmedia.com/ubm/media/releases/2006/2006-07-25/|title=Karen Thomson and Pradeep Kar appointed to the Board of United Business Media|accessdate=2006-08-24] .

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* [http://www.weforum.org/en/KNContributors/index.htm?personid=67317 Bio details at World Economic Forum]
* [http://in.rediff.com/business/1999/oct/21otc.htm Article from rediff about Pradeep Kar heading the IPO committee]
* [http://www.businessworld.in/archive/200717/mktg5.htm Businessworld article about Pradeep Kar's serial entrepreneurship]
* [http://www.madmanweb.com/archives/0111how_indyacom_blew_50_million.html Story about indya.com, promoted by Pradeep Kar]
* [http://www.hinduonnet.com/businessline/2001/08/03/stories/14031801.htm STAR buying out indya.com] - Article in Businessline from The Hindu
* [http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/thscrip/print.pl?file=2006072902961601.htm&date=2006/07/29/&prd=th& News item about appointment as independent director]
* [http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2006/08/23/stories/2006082302271900.htm Kar heads TiE chapter, B’lore]
* [http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/thscrip/print.pl?file=2005060402130500.htm&date=2005/06/04/&prd=bl& Microland's outsourcing deal with a UK firm]