Mandar Dnyaneshwar Agashe was born on 24 May 1969 and is an Indian businessman, music director, and former musician.
14 Facts About Mandar Agashe
Mandar Agashe founded Sarvatra Technologies in 2000, and has served as the company's managing director since its inception.
Mandar Agashe graduated with a BE degree in software engineering from the Pune Institute of Computer Technology in 1990.
Mandar Agashe has been married to Aparna Pandharkar since 1996; she adopted the name Jiza Agashe upon marriage.
In 1991, Mandar Agashe was appointed to the board of directors at his grandfather's Brihan Maharashtra Sugar Syndicate, going on to become the joint managing director of the syndicate in 1994, the same year he was appointed a director on his father's Suvarna Sahakari Bank.
In 2002, Mandar Agashe purchased stake in Deepak Ghaisas' I-flex Solutions, after the company agreed to partner with Codito, with Ghaisas joining the board of directors.
In 2006, Mandar Agashe launched "Anywhere Money" POS terminals under his company Saravatra Technologies to praise and support from politicians such as Shankarrao Gadakh in the Government of Maharashtra.
Mandar Agashe was in Germany at the time of the arrests, returning to India for his father's funeral in January 2009.
In 2011, Mandar Agashe launched Sarvatra's POS terminals to Urban co-operative banks in the Solapur district.
Under Mandar Agashe's chairmanship, having previously been appointed the company's vice-chair as of 2018, the company's financial switch helping 450 co-operative banks and 50 urban co-operative banks, by 2018 and by 2020 respectively, connect to India's National Electronic Funds Transfer service.
In 2020, at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Mandar Agashe announced he would consider making half of his employees work from home post-lockdown.
Between 2021 and 2022, Mandar Agashe was often quoted by several publications as an expert for the banking software and financial technology sectors.
Previously in 1994, Mandar Agashe had recorded an English rock music album in Indianapolis, citing The Beatles as a major influence.
In 2003, Mandar Agashe released a new age-techno track titled I Need Someone in Germany.