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Ravi Reddy & Sandy Tungare Vistaar Technologies' co-founders Sandy Tungare and Ravi Reddy were previously co-founders of Think Systems, a highly successful demand planning software company. Think Systems went on to enormous success, claiming one quarter of the Fortune 100 list as customers. These companies believed in Sandy's vision for software that could help a company to reduce inventory, increase customer service and remove millions in expenses. It also cemented Sandy's reputation as a technology visionary. Over the next ten years, Sandy and Ravi took Think Systems from a three person start-up to a multi-national organization — with customers like 3M, Compaq, General Electric, IBM, Intel, Motorola, Nabisco, Pfizer, Phillip Morris and Whirlpool. By the time they sold Think Systems in 1997, their venture was worth nearly $150 million.

SIDBI - www.sidbi.com SIDBI was established on April 2, 1990. The Charter establishing it, The Small Industries Development Bank of India Act, 1989 envisaged SIDBI to be "the principal financial institution for the promotion, financing and development of industry in the small scale sector and to co-ordinate the functions of the institutions engaged in the promotion and financing or developing industry in the small scale sector and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.

unitus - www.unitus.com Unitus envisions a world where microfinance is available to every individual. We work toward this vision by accelerating the growth of the highest-potential microfinance institutions through capital investments and capacity-building consulting, thus empowering them to help exponentially more poor people worldwide.

Vinod Khosla was a co-founder of Daisy Systems and founding Chief Executive Officer of Sun Microsystems where he pioneered open systems and commercial RISC processors. Vinod serves on the boards of Agami, eASIC, Indian School of Business, Infinera, Kovio, Metricstream, Spatial Photonics, Xsigo and Zettacore. Vinod holds a Bachelor of Technology in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in New Delhi, a Master's in Biomedical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and a MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

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