Mandar Agashe
Managing Director Sarvatra Technologies Pvt Ltd.
About
Mandar Agashe, the Managing Director of Sarvatra Technologies, a company that provides financial and payment solutions to the Indian banking sector, came up with the idea of Unified Payments Interface (UPI) and launched it in 2016.
On 24th May 1969, Mandar was born into an influential family of Mumbai to an Indian businessman, cricketer and philanthropist, Dnyaneshwar Agashe, and Rekha Gogte. Mandar had two other siblings, Ashutosh Agashe and Sheetal Agashe.
When Mandar was pursuing his B.E. degree in Computers, he created Musicurry.com, an online radio website. After completing his college, Mandar joined his family business in 1994 and started working in the firms. By 2000, he established EBZ Online in association with Oracle, followed by establishing Brihans Natural Products Ltd., and finally, Sarvatra Technologies in 2000.
