Mara Group

At 15 years of age when most young people’s idea of having fun is clubbing, Ashish J. Thakkar, decided to start an IT company. In numerous media interviews Thakkar has said his motivation to start an IT firm was accidental. It started when he sold his personal computer to a friend and he made a handsome profit. That was in 1995, shortly after his family had relocated to Uganda having been victims of Idi Amin’s decree to expel Asians in 1972. Thakkar dropped out of school to pursue his entrepreneurial dream. Today he is the owner of Mara Group that…