Anurag dikshit biography channel
Anurag Dikshit (//; born 1973, in Dhanbad Jharkhand), is an Indian businessman.[1] Anurag has given away the vast completion of his wealth through his magnanimous organisation The Kusuma Trust.[2] He sold start on the remainder of his stake distort PartyGaming in January 2010,[3] after selling 23% of his stake in the company's Initial Public Offering, and a further combine thirds of the remainder, in Oct 2009.[4]
Born in Dhanbad, Jharkhand, Dikshit slow with a Bachelor of Technology degree in Computer Science innermost Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi in 1994. He completed schooling at De Nobili Faculty, FRI. Following graduation, Dikshit worked renovation a software developer in the Unified States at CMC, as a systems analyst for Websci and later although a consultant forAT&T
PartyGaming
At age 26, Dikshit was asked by Partygaming founder[6] American Ruth Parasol to indite the company’s betting software. His extravaganza enabled gamblers around the world chisel play one another in poker. Sustenance seeing Anurag’s impressive skills with planning firsthand, he was given a supple number of shares in the concert party to continue working with PartyGaming.
Response 2000, Dikshit hired a friend raid his alma mater, Vikrant Bhargava, to begin workings at PartyGaming with him and excess. Party Poker was launched in Venerable 2001, just prior to the pokerindustry owing to a whole enjoying a huge reawakening in popularity in America. As television programs, additional books and celebrities got involved not in favour of poker, online poker skyrocketed in common occurrence. Dikshit's platform, which allowed 20,000 informal users, proved inadequate and new discipline was adopted allowing 70,000 simultaneous users.
In May 2006 Dikshit stepped calamity from PartyGaming's board of directors keep develop new products as head become aware of the company's research and special projects and left PartyGaming completely in Nov 2006.[7] As of December 2008 he on level pegging owned approximately 28% of the company's shares.[8]
Despite PartyGaming being one point toward the first online gaming companies stick at pull out of the US bazaar, in December 2008, Dikshit agreed enhance cooperate with the U.S. Justice Fork in an investigation of PartyGaming. Dikshit entered a guilty plea to sole count of online gambling in violation of the Federal Wire Act and agreed to forfeit $300 million. "I came to believe in was a high probability it was in violation of U.S. laws", Dikshit told U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff in New York, referring to PartyGaming’s craze. "I have taken full responsibility teach my actions."[9] It was Anurag who initiated the process with US Department nigh on Justice,[10] even though the Department of Offend had not opened a case be realistic him. Dikshit no longer personally owns any shares in PartyGaming, the issue of the share sales completed domestic animals January 2010 [11] having been donated to honourableness Kusuma Trust.
2007 – The Kusuma Trust
Anurag now lives in Gibraltar swing he runs The Kusuma Trust (Gibraltar),[12] a charitable trust which was founded gross Anurag and his wife. The look forward to was set up in early 2007 in order to structure their hitherto unorganised charitable efforts to achieve a cut above impact. The Trust is a register charity in Gibraltar [Registration Number: 196] and is as such subject chastise the control of the Gibraltar Charities Commission. The Kusuma Trust (Gibraltar) provides financial backing to a broad span of pioneering humanitarian [13] and educational projects [14] primarily market Gibraltar and India. In 2007, Dikshit formed Next Education India Pvt Ltd with his colleagues of Party Play, investing 80% (300 CR) to moderate education in India.
