Background
Rajeev was born in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, to Indian Air Force Officer, Air Commodore M. K. Chandrasekhar and Mistress Valli Chandrasekhar.
Rajeev was born in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, to Indian Air Force Officer, Air Commodore M. K. Chandrasekhar and Mistress Valli Chandrasekhar.
He studied in various schools across India, and enrolled to study electrical engineering at Manipal Institute of Technology in 1981, leaving briefly to work for Softech, a start-up Information Technology firm. He completed Masters in Computer Science in 1985 from Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago.
He represents Karnataka and Bangalore Urban Constituency, and is an established entrepreneur. Rajeev then worked for Intel as Senior Design Engineer and a CPU architect on the 80486 and Pentium Microprocessors before returning to India in 1991. In 1994, Rajeev founded BPL Mobile, which became a major mobile phone service provider, valued at United States$1.1 billion in 2005, when Rajeev entered politics.
Rajeev founded Jupiter Capital in 2005, with an initial investment of United States$100 million, and currently has investments and managed assets of over United States$800 million in technology, media, hospitality and entertainment.
In April 2013, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belgaum, for his work as an entrepreneur. In April 2012, he was re-elected to the Rajya Sabha for a second six-year term as a BJP Parliamentarian representing Karnataka.
He has advocated for governance reforms, institution building, Internet freedom, national security, welfare of the Armed Forces Personnel and sustainable city building of Bangalore and Karnataka. In 2008-2009, he served as the President of Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) –India’s apex industry chamber.
Currently he serves as Member on the Standing Committee on Defence, Consultative Committee on Defence, Central advisory committee for the National Cadet Corps, Select committee on Real Estate and Select Committee on GST.
Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Jupiter Capital Private
Limited.
Chairman, National Military Memorial.
Member of Parliament, Bangalore, Karnataka constituency Indian Parliament.
