Anurag Dikshit

Anurag Dikshit is the richest man in Gibraltar. As a co-founder of PartyGaming, parent company of the world`s leading online poker site party poker.com, he is one of the youngest billionaires in the world. The largest individual shareholder, he owns approximately 30% of PartyGaming after selling 23% of his stake in the company`s Initial Public Offering.

Born in Sindri, Jharkhand, Dikshit graduated with a Bachelor of Technology degree in Computer Science and engineering from India`s Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi in 1994. He completed schooling at De Nobili School, FRI. Following graduation, Dikshit worked as a software developer in the United States at CMC, as a systems analyst for Websci and later as a consultant for AT&T. With a current fortune estimated to be $1 billion, he is 35th on the list of the richest Indians in the world.

When Dikshit was twenty five years old, he met Ruth Parasol who asked him to write some proprietary code for PartyGaming`s Starluck online casino to replace the software they were licensing. PartyGaming was founded by Parasol, an American lawyer who now lives in Gibraltar. She considered Dikshit`s skills so crucial to the future of the business; she allocated him a considerable number of shares in the company.