Romesh Wadhwani
Romesh Wadhwani
Romesh T. Wadhwani is the founder, chairman and CEO of Symphony Technology Group, a strategic private equity firm that is a partner in building software, Internet and technology-enabled services companies...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
CountryUnited States of America
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For most Indians in America, wealth is not inherited. Neither do we make it as heads of large hedge funds and private equity funds. For us to make it to the top, we have to use our knowhow to create great new technology products and build high-tech companies.
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No one is an island. All these entities that drive economic development are interconnected in one sense or another.
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I don't want to live with the guilt of messing up someone's retirement fund.
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I feel that India lacks a level of philanthropy that is proportional to the wealth that is here, particularly among the top 5,000 industrialists and entrepreneurs.
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Bioscience and biotech offer many opportunities. The U.S. focuses on the rich man; India has rich man diseases and poor man diseases. So you have a much larger set of opportunities.
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STG is a combination of a holding company and a private equity model.
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I think the tradition of philanthropy is far better developed in the U.S. than in India, as is the whole notion of giving away 50% of your wealth while you are still living and not waiting till you're gone.