In a small village called Chikmagalur in Karnataka, an extra ordinary person Giri Devanur was born on May 20th 1969. After completing his graduation in Computer Engineering from University of Mysore, Giri Devanur also attended an Executive Education Program from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) at Cambridge. Giri Devanur, founded Ivega Corporation, an IT based company, providing services to banking and financial sector merged with TCG Software company and formed a common corporation "TCG-Ivega". Giri Devanur later resigned from TCG-Ivega as he wanted to establish Research & Development Park called Gandhi city.