Sunil Wadhwani

Managing Partner, SWAT Capital; President, Wadhwani AI; President, WISH Foundation

Sunil Wadhwani is a Pittsburgh-based tech entrepreneur who has built several companies in the US and India, and over the last 10 years has launched four large social sector initiatives in India. He co-founded and was CEO of iGate Corporation, an IT services company that he grew to over 34,000 employees and sold for $5 billion.

In 2015 he launched a non-profit foundation to transform primary healthcare in underserved communities across India. This foundation ran over 1,000 clinics and treated over 20 million people a year with free healthcare, in partnership with government.  In 2018 Sunil and his brother launched the nonprofit Wadhwani Institute for Artificial Intelligence in India. This has over 250 full-time AI/ML and domain experts, who have developed over 25 AI platforms in the areas of healthcare, education, and agriculture. These solutions are impacting over 50 million people a year, and are scaling rapidly.

In 2021 he launched W Health Ventures, a venture studio that has created over a dozen healthcare companies in areas like chronic care management, AI-based mental health, and cancer care. These companies have since raised over $250 million of outside capital and have impacted over 25 million people. Last year he launched the Wadhwani School of AI at IIT Madras, his alma mater. This has become the largest school of AI in India, with over 400 students, 70 faculty, and 7 research centers.