Dr. Anand Deshpande is the Founder, Chairman and Managing Director of Persistent Systems since its inception and is responsible for the overall leadership, strategy and management of the Company. As a true technology visionary, Anand’s strengths lie in identifying and investing in next-generation technologies and encouraging internal entrepreneurship to ensure that Persistent Systems stays at the forefront of technology innovation.
Currently, he serves as a Trustee of the VLDB Endowment (www.vldb.org), Trustee of BAIF and as a Trustee of Persistent Foundation. With members of his family, he has established DeAsra Foundation (http://www.deasra.in), a non-profit entity which focuses on creating self-employment at scale.

J4E was started in the year 2016. J4E is a networking platform for entrepreneurs. We have around 2500+ entrepreneurs associated with us. All these entrepreneurs are associated through 25 What’s app groups. It is purely a business platform having rules which must be strictly followed. Here, entrepreneurs promote their business, post about requirements (Personal/ Professional) and help each other by sharing connections. Most importantly, Joining What’s app group is free for all entrepreneurs.J4E being a socio-commercial organization believes in supporting, encouraging and growing entrepreneurs community. J4E strongly believes in collaboration.

deAsra is committed to enabling people to start, manage & grow a small business successfully. To this end, we offer a platform wherein, setting up, managing & growing a small business is made simple & entrepreneur friendly through a broad array of support services. Each of our services is simplified, benchmarked, tech-enabled, expert-led, with customer-friendly functionality, convenience & speed.
In order to provide more jobs, we need to transform job seekers into job creators. With this mission in mind, Dr. Deshpande & his wife, Sonali, established deAsra, a not-for-profit (Section 8) organization, in 2015.