Par Chadha, Managing Partner and Founder
Founded HandsOn Ventures in 2001.

In a career that has evolved from a technology entrepreneur to the creator of global service enterprises privately held or publicly traded on US and Foreign Stock Exchanges, Mr. Chadha’s accomplishments include more than 80 mergers, acquisitions and public offerings. In addition, through his vision, multiple private equity funds have been created and profitably deployed to acquire a myriad of assets ranging from mergers and acquisitions of businesses to the purchase of billions of dollars of commercial and consumer debt. Today, he serves as Chairman of the Board of HOV Services, Ltd, a HandsOn Ventures portfolio company.

Before launching HOV, Mr. Chadha was Chairman and CEO of OSICOM Technologies, Inc., a technology company he founded with his wife, Sharon Chadha, in 1981. OSICOM was an innovator in the transition from mainframe-based to server-based networking technologies, and later from overlay networks to converged data, voice and video networks. OSICOM became a public company in 1987 and, as a result of 14 technology acquisitions, became the incubator to three leading public technology companies: Sorrento Networks, Inc. (the pioneer in metro optical networking); Entrada Networks, Inc. (a leader in local area, wide area and storage area networking); and Netsilicon, Inc. (a pioneer in networking systems-on-silicon). OSICOM commanded a market value of more than $1.5 billion in 2000 when they again embarked on a venture to build through acquisition a portfolio of potentially synergistic businesses at HandsOn Ventures, LLC.

Mr. Chadha’s vast experience growing and building businesses at home and abroad, as well as his handson involvement in the entire portfolio, have proven to be an invaluable asset to the growth and development of the entire HandsOn Ventures portfolio, including HOV Services Ltd.

Mr. Chadha holds a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Punjab Engineering College, India, and completed graduate-level coursework in computer science at the Illinois Institute of Technology.