Shiv Nadar Quotes


Education is a very large area, and we have our hands full. For example, SSN has to become a university; we have to keep adding departments like it is with universities in the U.S.


Citations

Nadar, Shiv. "First Convocation Address." Shiv Nadar University, 2015.

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Shiv Nadar
Shiv Nadar
  • Born: July 14, 1945
  • Nationality: Indian
  • Profession: Founder HCL Technologies, Founder SSN College Engineering, Founder Shiv Nadar University

Shiv Nadar (Tamil: சிவ நாடார்) is an Indian - Tamil billionaire industrialist. He is the founder and chairman of HCL Technologies Limited and the Shiv Nadar Foundation. Nadar founded HCL in the mid-1970s and transformed the IT hardware company into an IT enterprise over the next three decades by constantly reinventing his company's focus. In 2008, Nadar was awarded Padma Bhushan for his efforts in the IT industry. Nadar, nicknamed by friends as Magus (Old Persian for "wizard"), since the mid-1990s he has focused his efforts on developing the educational system of India through the Shiv Nadar Foundation. Ramanichandran, a prolific Tamil romance novelist is his cousin. He is the third richest person in India with a net worth of US$26 billion as of January 2021, according to Forbes.