SHIV NADAR

SHIV NADAR

Shiv Nadar was born in 1945 in Moolaipozhi village,Tutocorin district,Tamilnadu.

Father: Sivasubramaniya.

Mother:Vamasundari Devi.

Shiv completed his graduation from American college,Madurai and also completed his engineering in electricals and electronics branch from PSG college of technology.

He started his career at Walchand group's cooper of  engineering in Pune in 1967.

Shiv Nadar is a top entrepreneur,chairperson and chief stratergy officer at HCL technologies.a global IT service company with its head quater in Noida,India.

He is the richest person and a billionaire of worth 4.2 billion dollars.He founded HCL technologies in mid 1970's and transformed IT hardware company to IT enterprise over three decades.

Shiv along with Ajai Chowdary,Chairmen HCL infosystems,Arjun Malhotra,Subhash Arora,Yogesh Vaidya and DS puri started with the micro computer to sell teledigital calculater with the called "tele vista".

He later started HCL in 1976 with investment of 1,87,000 along with six founders.Company enjoyed unexpected profits when IBM left India.This provided a wide market exposure for his microcomputer in India.

Shiv along with three others started with NIIT,with need for computer education in the society.He was the largest shareholder in NIIT.He held his shareholding till 2003.

In 1984 he also started with HCL office of automation.This became India's leading office solutions.He also developed a personal computer solution called Burybee and UNIX platform based solution.By 1987 HCL ranked India's number one company.

HCL America was setup in 1989.Due his wrong assumption about what market needs,led to drastic loss in World's largest market.Later HCL joined HP and created a joint venture..In mid 90's Shiv ventured inyo a sale agreement with Nokia and Sony ericson to promote their product in India.

He shifted his focus from IT hardware to IT services.HCL-HP merged into HP and the joint venture broke.

By 1998,Nadar had established five companies:HCL technologies,HCL infosystems,HCL comnet,HCL perot,NIIT.

In 2007, Vineet Nayan was titled as CEO of HCL technologies and Nadar continues to be the chairmen.

AWARDS 

1995-Dataquest IT man of the year award.

2005-CNBC Business excellence award.

2006-Honary fellowship of All India Management Association award.

2008-Padmabushana award. 

2009-Forbes 48 heros of philanthrophy in Asia Pacific award.

2010-Dataquest life time achievement award.

Shiv Nadar serves  10% of his wealth for philanthropic endeverous......