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Shiv Nadar |
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Founder - HCL, and,
Chairman & Chief
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- HCL Technologies |
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time when India had a total of 250
computers, Shiv Nadar led a young team
which passionately believed in and bet
on the growth of the IT industry. That
vision in 1976, born out of a Delhi "barsaati",
akin to a garage start-up, has resulted
3 decades later in a $5 billion global
transformational technology enterprise
today. From designing India's first PC
at the same time as global IT peers in
1978; to working on the Boeing
Dreamliner's Flight Management Systems
now, HCL has stayed a true Pioneer of
Modern Computing. HCL's range of
offerings spans Product Engineering,
Custom & Package Applications, BPO, IT
Infrastructure Services, IT Hardware,
Systems Integration, and distribution of
ICT products - across a wide range of
focused industry verticals. The HCL team
comprises over 60,000 professionals of
diverse nationalities, who operate from
26 countries including over 500 points
of presence in India. HCL has global
partnerships with several leading
Fortune 1000 firms, including leading IT
and Technology firms. |
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Acknowledged as a visionary by the IT industry and
his peers, Shiv Nadar has often made daring forays
based on his conviction of the future. At a time
when hardware was the name of the game, Nadar
foresaw the huge potential in the area of IT
education & learning from which NIIT was born.
Albeit a more recent entrant in the software
services space, since its listing in 2000, HCL is
already among top Indian IT software majors and a
force to reckon with for global technology giants.
Shiv Nadar firmly believes that, "If you want to
empower people, give them the tools. There's enough
entrepreneurship in this country to take care of the
rest." He is quick to grasp new opportunities,
select a team to transform his ideas into reality
and delegate the project to competent professionals.
In January 2005 Shiv Nadar received the CNBC
Business Excellence award from the Prime Minister of
India. In February 2005 he was listed by "India
Today" in the Power List of India's leaders from all
walks of life, for building a global IT Enterprise
from scratch in 3 decades, creating valuable JVs
with marquee partners such as Deutsche Bank, and
creating jobs in Belfast when India was being
criticized for just the opposite. More recently,
Shiv Nadar received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur
of the Year Award 2007 in the 'Services' category
for being "a doyen of the Indian IT industry and
perhaps its chief architect". The University of
Madras awarded him an Honorary Doctorate Degree in
Science in November 2007, for his contribution to
not just the IT industry in India, but also for his
"transformation of technological culture globally".
Shiv Nadar has been conferred the Padma Bhushan
Award - the third highest civilian honor conferred
by the President of India - in January 2008, in
recognition of not just his contribution to trade &
industry in India but also his deep commitment to
public good. In February 2009, Forbes Magazine
featured him in its list of 48 Heroes of
Philanthropy in the Asia Pacific region.
Determined to give back to the society that nurtured
him, Shiv Nadar has been quietly supporting many
critical social causes through the Shiv Nadar
Foundation. The Foundation is committed to provide
the means to empower individuals to bridge the
socio-economic divide and to contribute to the
creation of a more equitable, meritocracy based
society, and aims to achieve this primarily through
outstanding educational institutions of higher
learning. It has established the not-for-profit SSN
College of Engineering in Chennai, which is today
among the top ten private engineering colleges in
India. Shiv Nadar is also building "VidyaGyan"
public schools in Uttar Pradesh that will provide
free, world class education to rural children from
economically disadvantaged backgrounds.
He is an active member of the Executive Board of the
Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad.
Concerned with the public health issues in India,
Shiv Nadar is involved with the Public Health
Foundation of India (PHFI) - working to establish
standards in public health education and to create a
network of innovative world class India-relevant
institutes of public health. He is a Global Charter
Member of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), which works
to promote entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship
globally. He also supports initiatives for the girl
child and the empowerment of women. |
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