About Mandar Agashe
Mandar Dnyaneshwar Agashe (born 24 May 1969) is an Indian businessman, music director, and former musician. He founded Sarvatra Technologies in 2000, and has served as the company's managing director since its inception. As a musician, he is remembered for his pop and rock music releases in Hindi and English under Sony BMG in the 1990s and 2000s, and for music directing Marathi ghazal albums for Asha Bhosle in 2016, and Rahul Deshpande in 2021. == Biography == === Early life and family: 1969–1991 === Agashe was born on 24 May 1969 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, into an aristocratic and entrepreneurial Chitpavan brahmin family of industrialist Dnyaneshwar Agashe of the Agashe gharana of Mangdari, and wife Rekha Gogte, of the Gogte gharana of Belgaum. Through his father, Agashe is a grandson of Chandrashekhar Agashe, a nephew of Panditrao Agashe and Shakuntala Karandikar, an older brother of Ashutosh and Sheetal Agashe, of distant relation to Third Anglo-Maratha War general Bapu Gokhale, musician Ashutosh Phatak, historian Dinkar G. Kelkar, and scientist P. K. Kelkar. Through his mother, Agashe is a great-nephew of B. M. Gogte, a first cousin to poet Rashmi Parekh, a descendant of the aristocratic Latey (Bhagwat) family, and of relation to Kokuyo Camlin head Dilip Dandekar, and academic Jyoti Gogte. Agashe graduated with a BE degree in software engineering from the Pune Institute of Computer Technology in 1990. He has been married to Aparna Pandharkar since 1996; she adopted the name Jiza Agashe upon marriage. They have two children. === Early business career: 1991–2008 === In 1991, Agashe was appointed to the board of directors at his grandfather's Brihan Maharashtra Sugar Syndicate, going on to become the joint managing director of the syndicate in 1994, the same year he was appointed a director on his father's Suvarna Sahakari Bank.
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