Sunil Wadhwani
Managing Partner, SWAT Capital; President, Wadhwani AI; President, WISH Foundation
Sunil Wadhwani is an entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist residing in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
He co-founded, and was Chairman and CEO of IGATE Corporation, which provides a broad range of Information Technology services. With over 34,000 employees on four continents, IGATE has been ranked among the world’s leading consulting firms. In 2015, IGATE was sold to Cap Gemini of France for $5 billion.
Sunil is the Co-Founder and Chairman of Mastech Corporation, a provider of digital transformation solutions. Mastech is a publicly-traded company with over $250 million dollars in revenues.
Sunil is an active angel investor. He has funded the start-up of over 40 early-stage technology companies and has helped guide their growth strategies and mentored their leadership teams.
Sunil established the non-profit WISH Foundation in India in 2014. WISH transforms primary health systems in low-income areas using innovation and technology. WISH manages over 1,000 health clinics which have provided free healthcare to over 30 million patients to date. WISH Foundation also provides strategic advisory services to the National Government as well as several state governments in India on how to incorporate the WISH Innovation Model into the large primary health systems run by these governments. www.wishfoundationindia.org.
In 2018 Sunil and his brother Romesh launched the non-profit Wadhwani Institute for Artificial Intelligence with the goal of using AI to accelerate social development in the most vulnerable communities in India and other emerging economies. The Institute develops and deploys AI-based solutions in domains such as maternal and child health, tuberculosis, improving farmers’ incomes, and education and skills training. AI for Social Impact - Wadhwani AI
Sunil serves or has served as a Trustee or Director of Carnegie-Mellon University, George Washington University, The U.S. Federal Reserve Bank (Pittsburgh Branch), United Way Worldwide, and UPMC Health System.
Sunil is a Distinguished Alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology and has a Master’s Degree from Carnegie-Mellon University.
