Anant Koppar (Kannada: ಅನಂತ ಕೊಪ್ಪರ್) 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 develops products for Healthcare and Automotive sectors. Earlier he was the President of the Technologies Division of MphasiS post the acquisition of Kshema by MphasiS.
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Hailing from Gadag, North Karnataka.
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.
Anant founded KTwo Technology Solutions in 2007 and currently is the Chairman & CEO.
Currently Anant is pursuing his Doctoral Research is in the area of Use of Information Technology in providing Affordable & Quality Healthcare to rural population in India and other countries.
Presently Anant lives in Bangalore with his wife Mrs. Kalpana Koppar and two children.
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/).
He was conferred with Karnataka Rajyotsava Award, the highest civilian award by the Karnataka Government in the year 2008 for his achievements in IT.
Brief Profile
Anant Koppar is currently the Chairman & CEO KTwo Technology Solutions.
He was the Founder President of Kshema Technologies, one of India's first venture capital funded software services companies. He worked as the President of the Technologies Division of MphasiS BFL Limited post the acquisition of Kshema by MphasiS.
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.
Previously 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 industries. A certified "Project Management Professional" by PMI, Anant Koppar was the first CEO in India to get this certification.
Anant lives in Bangalore with his wife Mrs. Kalpana Koppar and two children – Shashabindu and Shrunottara.
Other Professional Involvements
Education
Previous Employments
Mr. Koppar has held top management positions in companies like Mphasis-EDS,Kshema Technologies, BFL Software after working for TATA-XLSI and Wipro.
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, 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.