Meet the promoters who are holding fort amid 'hostile takeover' bid of Mindtree

Bagchi co-founded Mindtree in 1999 along with  Ashok Soota, Namakal Parthasarathy, Krishnakumar Natarajan and Scott Staples.

Bagchi, Parthasarathy, Natarajan, and Mindtree chief executive officer Rostow Ravanan are part of a promoter group that owns about 13 percent of the company.

Natarajan, Parthasarathy, Ravanan and Bagchi hold stakes of 3.72 percent, 1.43 percent, 0.71 percent and 3.1 percent, respectively.

Parthasarathy and Natarajan held crucial positions at Wipro before establishing Mindtree. Bagchi, too, had stints at Wipro and Lucent Technologies.

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Ravanan also worked at Lucent Technologies before joining Mindtree.

Ravanan was chief financial officer of the company before he became CEO and Managing Director in 2016, replacing Natarajan. He led Mindtree's initial public offering (IPO) in February 2007.

Natarajan was CEO and Managing Director of the company until 2016, and is currently Executive Chairman. He is also a former chairman of NASSCOM, the Indian IT industry's lobby.

Bagchi, currently a non-executive director at Mindtree, was the company's Executive Chairman from 2012-2016. He stepped down in 2016 and began working at Odisha Skill Development Authority.

Parthasarathy is currently the company’s Executive Vice Chairman and COO. He also heads the company's business in the Asia-Pacific region.