Meet The Former Missile Engineer Who Made Billions Outsourcing Jobs — To The U.S.
October 13, 2023
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as posted by the channelRaj Sardana, who came to the U.S. from India 42 years ago with “maybe a hundred dollars” in his pocket, is reveling in his newfound success as a billionaire.
Over the past three years, his little-known company Innova Solutions has become the fourth largest IT staffing company in the U.S., according to Staffing Industry Analysts. Revenue tripled to $2.4 billion in 2022, up from $860 million in 2020.
Though it is much smaller and has a much lower profile than many of its publicly traded competitors, more than 1,100 large and mid-sized companies, including Tesla, Harley Davidson, Verizon and Raytheon, rely on Innova’s pool of 55,000 predominantly U.S.-based contractors to build their apps, manage their data and staff a litany of other tech-related projects lasting anywhere from a few weeks to over a year.
Sardana owns the company with his wife Nita, and is worth an estimated $2 billion (he claims the number is double that).“This truly is a land of dreams,” says Sardana.
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