Ashok Soota


Ashok Soota is an Indian IT entrepreneur who served for more than 30 years in the IT industry. He is a serial entrepreneur and the executive chairman and co-founder of Happiest Minds Technologies

Early life and education

Ashok Soota was born on 12 November 1942 in Delhi. He completed his Senior Cambridge and Inter Science at La Martinere, Lucknow in 1958 and 1960 respectively. He obtained his B.E. degree in 1964 from the University of Roorkee. He later pursued his MBA from the Asian Institute of Management, Manila, Philippines.

Career

Soota spent early years of his career with the Shriram Group of Industries in India in 1965.
He served as President of Wipro Infotech from 1984 to 1999. Under his watch, Wipro's IT business grew from US$2 million in 1984 to a US$500 million run-rate in 1999.
Soota co-founded Mindtree in 1999 which has currently a revenue of US$1 Billion, has an approximate of 20212 employees, and offices across the Americas, Europe and Asia.
In 2011, Soota co-founded Happiest Minds Technologies, with its headquarters in Bangalore, India.

Philanthropy

Soota is the founding chief patron of the Samarthanam Trust for the Disabled. He is the founding trustee for Ashirvadam, an NGO focused on the environment and support for the needy, including in terms of their education, vocational training and medical support.

Awards

He was awarded the Electronics Man of the year in 1992 by the Electronic Component Industries Association.
In recognition to all his contributions and excellence shown in the Industry and to bring the I.T industry to a place where it had made people felt its presence in our day-to-day life, the e-Information Systems, Security, and Audit Association is proud to confer on him the highest award of the HONORARY FELLOWSHIP of the Society in the year 2002.
He received the Prof S N Mitra Award from the Indian National Academy of Engineering and the Golden Peacock Award for Technology Leadership.
At the 2008 World Summit on Innovation and Entrepreneurship, he received the "Most Innovative People" award bestowed on the world's top 10 luminaries. Soota's recognition was in the field of Knowledge Innovation.
Agile Lifetime Achievement Unicom 2015.
Express IT Awards: Soota wins Lifetime Achievement Award 2016.
CyberMedia ICT Business Awards 2018.
Chiratae Lifetime Achievement 2018.