Bharat Desai is Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, and co-founder of Syntel, Inc. a worldwide provider of Applications Outsourcing and e-Business solutions to Global 2000 firms.nnUnder Desai’s direction, Syntel has grown dramatically over the past 21 years to become a leading information technology services company. Syntel now employs more than 2,700 people in offices strategically located throughout North America, Europe, and Asia, as well as three fully-networked Global Development Centers in the US and India. Syntel has been profitable since its founding in 1980 and today, has revenues of approximately $ 165 million. Syntel has met or exceeded financial expectations all 17 quarters the company has been publicly-traded on NASDAQ.