Pradeep Kar

Pradeep Kar founded Microland in 1989 with a vision to help enterprises harness technology to build resilient, reliable, and future-ready businesses. Over the past three decades, he has guided Microland’s evolution from a pioneering technology company to a leading AI-first, platform-led technology infrastructure services company, helping global enterprises build intelligent and resilient operations at scale.

Pradeep has consistently believed that technology must deliver real business outcomes — reliability, stability, predictability, and now intelligence and autonomy. Under his leadership, Microland has continuously stayed ahead of technology shifts — from networks and infrastructure management to cloud, cybersecurity, and now AI-driven autonomous operations through its AIOps platform, Intelligeni. His focus has always been on building long-term customer relationships, a strong values-driven organization, and a company that combines innovation with delivery excellence.

A serial entrepreneur, Pradeep has founded and successfully built and exited multiple technology ventures, including Indya.com, India’s leading online services company (sold to News Corporation), Planetasia.com, India’s first Internet Professional Services company, and Net Brahma Technologies, a next generation telecom software engineering firm.

His contributions to the technology industry have been widely recognized. He was named a Global Leader for Tomorrow” by the World Economic Forum in recognition of his leadership and contribution to the growth of the Indian technology industry.

Beyond Microland, Pradeep has served on several global boards and institutions, including as a Non-Executive Director on the board of UBM plc, a leading business-to-business events organizer listed on the London Stock Exchange (from 2006 through 2016), and on the board of Telstra Telecommunications India, from 2011 to 2021. He has also contributed to education and entrepreneurship as the First Chairman of the Governing Council of Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology for five years,  President of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), Bangalore Chapter, founding member of the Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO) Bangalore Chapter, and as a member of the Provost’s Council of Trinity College Dublin since 2016.

Pradeep holds a postgraduate degree in Management and a graduate degree in Mechanical Engineering. He is a recipient of the Young Business Achiever Award from The Indian Express and has been featured in Newsweek and Business India as one of the Stars of Asia.”

Pradeep strongly believes that great organizations are built by people, guided by values, and sustained by long-term relationships. He has championed a people-first, customer-centric culture at Microland and remains deeply committed to mentoring future leaders and strengthening the company’s culture and purpose as Microland enters its next phase — delivering AI-driven, autonomous, and resilient technology operations for enterprises globally.

He is also deeply committed to giving back to society through the Microland Foundation, which works across education, environment, health, and livelihood initiatives, reflecting his belief that businesses must play a meaningful role in building a better society.