Shiv Nadar

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Shiv Nadar is an Indian billionaire industrialist who is known for founding the Indian international IT firm HCL Technologies, and he is also known for his generous donations and efforts to philanthropy.Shiv Nadar was born in the present-day Thoothukudi district in Tamil Nadu. Shiv Nadar had been interested in studying, and in his early days, he changed several schools to get the best education. After switching three schools till the 10th standard, Shiv Nadar completed his high school (pre-university degree) from the American College, Madurai. Old picture of Shiv Nadar (right).In 1967, Shiv Nadar started his professional career with Walchand groups Cooper Engineering Ltd. in Pune. After working for some time, he decided to give it up and start his own venture with his friends and colleagues were Ajai Chowdhry, Subhash Arora, Yogesh Vaidya, S. Raman, Mahendra Pratap, Arjun Malhotra, and DS Puri. Shiv Nadar with his friends and co-founders of HCL.The name of his first company was Microcomp, which he started with his partners and they initially focused on selling teledigital calculators in the Indian market. In 1976, with an investment of Rs. 187,000, Nadar and his partners founded HCL.After a successful run in the country, HCL expanded to the international market with the opening of Far East Computers in Singapore where they sold IT hardware. With a revenue of Rs 1 million, the company decided to continue its operations in Singapore, and Shiv Nadar was the largest shareholder and he didnt retain any management control.In 1989, Shiv Nadar decided to tap into the American computer hardware market, but the initial trials failed as they failed to fulfill the American restrictions; in 1991, they partnered with Hewlett Packard to form HCL HP Limited. This partnership helped them earn better revenue figures in the American market.In 1994, Shiv Nadar decided to follow the path of philanthropy and opened up the Shiv Nadar Foundation that worked for the benefit of the future generation by providing them quality education.With his interest in the field of education, Shiv Nadar founded the SSN College of Engineering in Chennai, Tamil Nadu in 1996. The college was named after his father Sivasubramaniya Nadar. He played an active role in the colleges functioning and activities such as gifting HCL shares worth Rs. 1 million to the college funds.In 1998, Shiv Nadar decided to divide his business into five different categories with HCL Technologies being the global IT Service Company, HCL Infosystems (the Indian IT hardware leader), HCL comnet (network service company), HCL Perot (IT applications), and NIIT for education services. HCL Infosystems Ltd. office.In 2005, Nadar became a member of the executive board of the Indian School of Business.