Developmental engineer turned online gambling mogul owns 32% of Internet casino outfit PartyGaming. Earned degree in computer science and engineering from Indian Institute of Technology in New Delhi. First jobs at CMC, Websci, AT&T. Company founder, American Ruth Parasol (see), launched Starluck Casino on the Internet in 1997.
Dikshit (pronounced Dix-it) joined a year later at age 25; wrote company's betting software, which enables gamblers around the world to play one another in poker. Problem: majority of customers live in America, where online gambling is illegal. Solution: don't operate on U.S. soil; servers, employees based in Gibraltar, India, England, the Caribbean. Took public on London Stock Exchange in last June. Today manages company's operations.
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