Mandar Agashe Biography 
Mandar Agashe is an Indian musician, entrepreneur and businessman from Mumbai, Maharashtra. He is the founder and vice chairman of Sarvatra Technologies, a financial technological company that provides payment solution software to the Indian rural and co-operative banking sector, and it was founded in the year 2000. As a musician and singer, he is best associated with his Indie-pop album, Nazar Nazar, in 1998. The title song featuring Agashe got noticed. He is the son of Dnyaneshwar Agashe, an Indian businessman, cricketer, cricket administrator and philanthropist, and the grandson of Chandrashekhar Agashe, an industrialist and lawyer, and the founder-director of the Brihan Maharashtra Sugar Syndicate Ltd.
Agashe was born in Mumbai on 24 May, 1969 into Agashe business family. Born as the son of businessman Dnyaneshwar Agashe and Rekha Gogte, he later joined family business, also turned an entrepreneur and musician. His siblings are Ashutosh Agashe and Sheetal Agashe. His brother Ashutosh Agashe is also a successful businessman. He divorced his wife Jiza Agashe in 2008. The couple had two children.
Agashe joined family business in 1994 after completing his studies in IT. As a student he launched an internet radio website called Musicurry.com. He joined three business firms owned by his family. He established EBZ Online, a software company in the 1990s, Brihans Natural Products Ltd. in 2000 and also Sarvatra Technologies the same year. Now it has 450 co-operative banks on India's National Financial Switch.
He had a parallel career in music in the 1990s ever since he was an IT student. He launched an internet radio website called Musicurry.com and also sang with Asha Bhosle for a composition of Hridayanath Mangeshkar. He also released a music album Nazar Nazar, in 1998, followed by Jaan Le in 2005, 82 in 2016 and a single I Need Someone in 2003.
Published: February 27, 2019
Updated: February 27, 2019
