Bharat Desai and Neerja Sethi co-founded Syntel, an IT consulting and outsourcing company in 1980 right from their apartment.

Bharat and Neerja give their charitable giving through the Ds Foundation. They also donate through their foundation, the Desai Sethi Foundation (DSF), which supports underprivileged youth in Florida and Michigan. The couple also gives millions annually to a donor advised fund, while also supporting a number of nonprofits.

Bharat Desai graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay and received his MBA from University of Michigan. Neerja Sethi graduated with a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and her MBA from Delhi University, and has also received her M.S. in Computer Science from Oakland University.