Romesh T. Wadhwani is the founder and chairman of Symphony Technology Group, a private equity firm investing in software and software services companies. As of April 27, 2010, the Symphony Technology Group’s portfolio companies include: Capco

Capco

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; SymphonyIRI Group (formerly Information Resources, Inc.), Inc.; MSC Software

MSC Software

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; Symphony Services

Symphony Services

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; Teleca

Teleca

Teleca is a privately held company, wholly owned by STG , which supplies software services to the mobile communications industry. Teleca offers engineering solutions across the entire value chain of design, development, testing of mobile device services, applications, operating systems, and...

; Netik; Lawson Software

Lawson Software

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; and Aldata. Combined, these companies have over $2 billion in revenue and 15,000 employees worldwide. STG sold Symphony Marketing Solutions (SMS) to Genpact (NYSE: G) on Feb. 3, 2010.

In 1991, Wadhwani founded B2B software firm Aspect Development, maker of software that helps clients track internal spending, inventory and buying habits. Wadhwani also served as chairman and chief executive officer of this business-to-business e-commerce company. Wadhwani sold Aspect to Sanjiv Sidhu

Sanjiv Sidhu

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's i2 Technologies

I2 Technologies

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 for $9.3 billion, the largest merger in software history. From June 2000, when the merger occurred, until September 2002, Wadhwani served as vice chairman and a director of i2.

In addition, Wadhwani was chairman and CEO of Cimflex Teknowledge Corporation, a company specializing in products and systems for computer-integrated manufacturing. From 1973 to 1981, he was the Chief Executive Officer of Compuguard Corporation.

Wadhwani has a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay. He moved to United States in 1969, where he earned an M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.