Sanju K Bansal is an Indian-American businessman, the co-founder of MicroStrategy, a worldwide provider of enterprise software platforms for business intelligence, mobile software, big data and cloud-based services.
18 Facts About Sanju Bansal
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Sanju Bansal served as the company's vice chairman of the board of directors and executive vice president till November 14,2013.
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Sanju Bansal was born in Patiala, India and emigrated with his parents to the United States when he was two years old.
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Sanju Bansal attended Lake Braddock Secondary School in Burke, Virginia where he was a valedictorian.
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Sanju Bansal's father, Ved Bansal, came to the United States in 1959 with $1000.
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Sanju Bansal received a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering from MIT and a Master of Science in computer science from The Johns Hopkins University.
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Directly out of college, Sanju Bansal worked for the technology and management consulting firm, Booz Allen Hamilton.
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Sanju Bansal helped build MicroStrategy with no venture capital, often working 80 to 100 hours per week to get the company off the ground.
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Sanju Bansal was instrumental in raising more than $175 million in the following 17 months to keep the company going and expanding business into China in 2002.
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Sanju Bansal employed more than 3,200 people worldwide and reported revenue of $594.61 million in 2012.
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In 2013, Sanju Bansal co-founded Hunch Analytics with Aneesh Chopra, which currently contains one portfolio company: CareJourney, a healthcare data analytics firm.
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Sanju Bansal serves as a board member for the following companies:.
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In 2020, Sanju Bansal became a trustee of the NPR Foundation.
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In May 2010, the Kailash Goyal Foundation, with aid from the Sanju Bansal Foundation, opened the JK Shanti Charitable Clinic, a free clinic to support the medical needs of the villagers and laborers near the Indian town of Panchkula.
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Sanju Bansal served on the Board of Directors for Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts from 2000 to 2006.
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The Sanju Bansal Foundation contributes to organizations including XPrize, the Washington Humane Society, the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship, Upakar Indian-American Scholarship Foundation, the Kailash Goyal Foundation, The Global India Fund, and Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts.
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In 2013, Sanju Bansal received the Washington Business Journal Outstanding Directors award for his work with Cvent.
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In 2009,2011, and 2013, Sanju Bansal was named one of The Washingtonian 100 Top Tech Titans, a list honoring the top 100 leaders of Washington DC's tech world.