Sajan Pillai is an India-born American businessman and investor. He is the former CEO of

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, which he helped build into a company employing over 25,000 people. He is currently the founder, chairman, and CEO of McLaren Strategic Ventures.

Career

Sajan Pillai was a part of the founding team of

in 1999 and later became CEO. He is co-credited with building the firm into an

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giant employing 25,000 people, catering to

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, and generating revenue of more than $1 billion. As CEO, Pillai launched a program called Step It Up America, which trained minority women to work in

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and IT sectors. He retired from UST in 2019 to start McLaren Strategic Ventures and Season Two Ventures. As part of his investment venture, Pillai has invested $300 million towards development of chip design and product engineering projects in the

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References

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