Piyush Somani — Standard Bio (150 words)

Piyush Somani is the Founder, Chairman & Managing Director of ESDS Software Solution Limited — India's most trusted sovereign cloud and data centre company — and President of the Bharat Digital Infrastructure Association (BDIA). Born in Malkapur, Buldhana on 28 November 1979, he founded ESDS in January 2005 from a borrowed kindergarten classroom in Nashik. The company today serves over 40,000 customers, more than 450 banking institutions, and 80% of India's Smart Cities, across 19 countries, with 600+ employees.

Piyush holds three patents in vertical auto-scaling cloud technology — granted in the United States (US 9176788 B2, 2015), the United Kingdom (GB 2493812 B, 2017), and India. He is the architect of EnlightAIX, a sovereign AI hyperscaler with an eight-layer, 189-module architecture. He is the author of two books — "Entrepreneur with The Fire Within" (2020) and "Living in Harmony with the Sun" — and a daily Vipassana practitioner.