Anant Koppar

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 has currently started a new company called KTwo Technology Solutions, an Indian Origin Global Products company that focuses on developing innovative products for Healthcare and Automotive sectors. Earlier he was the President of the Technologies Division of MphasiS post the acquisition of Kshema by MphasiS.

Background

Hailing from Gadag, North Karnataka, he is one of the success stories and a role model for people coming from rural middle class backgrounds for corporate success.

With a Masters Degree in Computer Engineering from IIT Kharagpur, he started his career in Wipro. He also had brief stint 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 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.

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/).

Humanitarian Endeavours

A charitable trust called Utthana, which has the patronage of the IT community in Bangalore, is his brainchild. Koppar takes time off his usual grind to look into the meaningful functioning of Utthana. He assures that every contribution to Utthana reaches the less privileged.

He has recently started an educational initiative called Uttara Vikasa (http://www.uttaravikasa.org), a medium through which he attempts to educate the rural students and educational communities of North Karnataka region of adapting to globalization and fulfillment of their potential.

His wife Kalpana and he together have given a large donation to a school run by Lions Club in his native Gadag. The school provides primary education to poor children in Gadag District and is now named after his mother "Shrimati Sitabai Koppar Primary School". He also contributes to take care of educational needs of many poor children in that school.

External links

* [http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1941557.cms Anant Koppar may log out of MphasiS]

* [http://sify.com/news/internet/fullstory.php?id=13201316 Kshema Continues to be a value based company]

* [http://sify.com/peopleandplaces/fullstory.php?id=13201245 Humanist Technocrat]

* [http://www.pmibangalorechapter.org/pmpc2006/advisoryboard/ananthkoppar_profile.html Anant Koppar's profie on PMI Bangalore Chapter]