Neerja Sethi co-founded Syntel in 1980, launching the company from a Michigan apartment with just $2,000 in savings. Over nearly four decades, she helped build the firm into a global IT services enterprise serving major corporate clients around the world. At a time when women were significantly underrepresented in technology entrepreneurship, she demonstrated that founders could achieve both commercial success and financial independence on their own terms. Syntel’s growth and eventual $3.4 billion acquisition established Sethi as one of the most successful Indian American entrepreneurs in the technology industry.
