Desh Deshpande
Founder, Sparta
Gururaj “Desh” Deshpande is President and Chairman, Sparta Group LLC
Dr. Deshpande founded Cascade Communications and Sycamore Networks and has chaired and funded several other companies.
Deshpande is a life-member of the MIT Corporation.
The Deshpande Foundation supports Social entrepreneurship and provided the founding grant for NSF Innovation Corps (I-Corps™) and Deshpande Center at MIT.
Deshpande holds a B. Tech. from Indian IIT-Madras, M.E. from the University of New Brunswick, Canada, and Ph.D. from Queens University, Canada.
Deshpande co-chaired the National Council to support President Obama’s innovation and entrepreneurship strategy from 2010 to 2015.