Jaishree Deshpande is the Treasurer of Sparta Group LLC, and a Founder of the Deshpande Foundation.Jaishree and her husband supported the founding of the Deshpande Center at the MIT School of Engineering in 2002. She currently serves as a Trustee for the Museum of Scince and is involved with HESTIA Fund. Jaishree worked for the Indian Space Research Organization in Bengaluru, India until 1980 before moving to Canada. She received a Master of Science in Physics in 1975 from the Indian Institute of Technologies(IIT),Madras, India and a Master in Computer Science in 1989 from Boston University.