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Girish Gaitonde (born 1961) is an Indian -American Entrepreneur, founder and CEO of the technology firm Xoriant Corporation a California based global IT services company offering product engineering services to startups and large Fortune 500 companies in financial services, automotive, pharma, and high technology sectors with operations in the United States, Europe and India. He has also been recognized as a distinguished alumni member by the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.

Education Girish Gaitonde holds an MBA in Finance and Marketing from The University of Chicago, an MS degree in Computer Engineering from The Pennsylvania State University and a BTech degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, where he has been granted a status of a distinguished alumnus. Early Career as an Industry executive and venture investor Prior to his entrepreneurial days, Mr. Gaitonde held marketing, financial and engineering management positions at organizations such as Arix Corporation, AT&T Corporation and Intel Corporation. Girish has also been a seed investor and board member for more than a dozen technology startups. These include an internet security software company Valicert, Inc. (IPO - 2000. Acquired by Tumbleweed -NASDAQ: TMWD – 2003), a specialized VOIP application specific DSP semiconductor chip company VxTel, Inc, (acquired by Intel Corporation in 2001), a semiconductor process software company Radiance Software, Inc. (acquired by Asyst Technologies in 1996) and Insync Software, Inc. a fast growing privately funded company building enterprise class edge applications for the semiconductor industry product tracking based on state-of-the-art RFID technology. Entrepreneur phase: Girish went on to start his own venture Xoriant Corporation, (formerly known as TekEdge Corporation). The company has its headquarters in Sunnyvale California, which offers flexible blend of onsite, offsite and offshore services from even global delivery centers with over 1500 software professionals. Xoriant has deep client relationships spanning over 20 years with various clients ranging from startups to Fortune 100 companies.

Philanthropy In October 2004, The Department of Electrical Engineering at IIT Bombay inaugurated Girish Gaitonde Lecture Hall Complex and specialized laboratories, using a $1.25M donation from Girish.

Personal life Girish lives in Saratoga, California with his wife, Vibha and two sons, Gaurav and Omkar. He frequently divides his time between Mumbai and the bay area.