Pradeep Kar is an India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

n businessman is chairman and managing director of a company which he founded in 1989. Microland

Microland

Microland is an IT infrastructure services provider, offering services across Infrastructure Management, Infrastructure Modernization, Process Maturity Services, Assurance and Compliance, Technical Support, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Collaboration and Mobility....

 is one of India’s leading providers of outsourced infrastructure management and technical support services, employing more than 1,600 staff. Pradeep Kar is the 2006 President of the Bangalore

Bangalore

Bengaluru , formerly called Bengaluru is the capital of the Indian state of Karnataka. Bangalore is nicknamed the Garden City and was once called a pensioner's paradise. Located on the Deccan Plateau in the south-eastern part of Karnataka, Bangalore is India's third most populous city and...

 chapter of TiE

TiE

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, The IndUS Entrepreneurs. He is an alumnus of the Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology

Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology

Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology , Nagpur, also referred to as NIT, Nagpur, is a premier engineering college in central India...

, Nagpur

Nagpur

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Pradeep holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering and a Post Graduate degree in Management from SP Jain Institute of Management & Research, Mumbai.

He currently resides in Bangalore,India.

External links

• Bio details at World Economic Forum
• Article from rediff about Pradeep Kar heading the IPO committee
• Businessworld article about Pradeep Kar's serial entrepreneurship
• Story about indya.com, promoted by Pradeep Kar
• STAR buying out indya.com - Article in Businessline from The Hindu
  The Hindu
  The Hindu is an Indian English-language daily newspaper founded and continuously published in Chennai since 1878. According to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, it has a circulation of 1.46 million copies as of December 2009. The enterprise employed over 1,600 workers and gross income reached $40...
  
  
• News item about appointment as independent director
• Kar heads TiE chapter, B’lore
• Microland's outsourcing deal with a UK firm