Shiv Nadar
Founder, HCL Group; Chairman Emeritus and Strategic Advisor to the Board, HCLTech, HCLTech
B.E. Electrical Engineering, PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore (1967)
About
Shiv Nadar is the founder of the HCL Group and the Shiv Nadar Foundation, and is chairman emeritus and strategic advisor to the board of HCLTech, the Noida-based IT services company. Born on 14 July 1945 in Moolaipozhi, in present-day Thoothukudi district of Tamil Nadu, he studied electrical engineering at PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, graduating in 1967. He began his career at Cooper Engineering in Pune before setting out with a group of colleagues including Ajai Chowdhry and Arjun Malhotra. Their first venture, Microcomp, sold teledigital calculators; in 1976 the team founded Hindustan Computers Limited (HCL), which went on to build some of India's first indigenous computers. HCL Technologies began as HCL's R&D division and was spun off in 1991 as a software and services company, the business that became HCLTech. In 2020 he handed the HCLTech chair to his daughter Roshni Nadar Malhotra, and in July 2021 he stepped down as managing director. Since the mid-1990s he has focused on education, founding SSN College of Engineering in Chennai in 1996 and later Shiv Nadar University. He received the Padma Bhushan in 2008.
Timeline: 1967, joins Cooper Engineering in Pune; 1976, co-founds HCL with an initial investment of about ₹1.87 lakh; 1980, opens Far East Computers in Singapore to sell hardware overseas; 1991, HCL Technologies spun off; 1996, founds SSN College of Engineering; 2008, Padma Bhushan; August 2020, Roshni Nadar Malhotra becomes HCLTech chairperson; July 2021, steps down as managing director, succeeded by C Vijayakumar. He also chaired the board of governors of IIT Kharagpur until 2014.
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