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Shiv Nadar
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Determined to give back to the society that nurtured him, Shiv Nadar has been supporting some critical social causes in many ways. One of them is to provide "World Class Research Oriented Quality Education at Affordable Price" in India. He has been actively, though quietly, involved in translating this dream into reality. He founded the SSN College of Engineering in Chennai (www.ssnce.ac.in) in 1996. In a short span of ten years the SSNCE has come to be ranked as the best in Tamilnadu and ninth in India of all private engineering colleges. He has ... founded the SSN School of Advanced Software Engineering (www.ssnsase.ac.in) which in association with the Carnegie Mellon University, USA (rated No. 1 globally in Software Engineering) offers 'Master Degree' program in 'Software Engineering' and 'Robotics'.
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Shiv Nadar was 22 when he saw his first city. Now,as chairman and CEO of HCL Technologies, he is worth some US$ 3 billion, according to a Forbes magazine estimate last year. In the second of a two-part interview with Knowledge@Wharton and Ravi Aron, a senior fellow at Wharton's Mack Center for Technological Innovation, Nadar discusses the challenges confronting Indian manufacturing and potential synergies between Indian and Chinese business.
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For 14 months between May 16, 2002 and July 22, 2003, HCL BPO Services — the 100 per cent-owned subsidiary of Shiv Nadar-promoted HCL Technologies — had some 125 agents working in seven teams soliciting financial contributions for the Republican Party. US presidential elections are slated for November 2004.
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At a 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 creating a US $ 4.7 Billion (Rs 19,000 Crore) Global Enterprise. 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 today, HCL has stayed a true Pioneer of Modern Computing. HCL now employs over 53,000 professionals, with a global presence in 18 countries and a pan India presence across 360 locations. HCL’s business spans IT Hardware manufacturing & distribution, System Integration, Technology & Software services, Business Process Outsourcing, and Infrastructure Management.
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Moving to Delhi from Tamil Nadu in 1968, Shiv Nadar worked as an engineer with DCM Ltd. Keen on starting on his own he made six of his colleagues to join him to launch a firm making office products like copiers. In 1976, Mr. Nadar initiated HCL as a startup firm with the same visionary zeal that today, symbolizes the rapidly growing $ 650 million Indian IT conglomerate with offices spread across 33 locations in 14 countries. Into the vacuum created by IBM quitting Indian HCL stepped in to supply computers and by 1982, HCL came out with its first computer.
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Concerned with the public health issues in India, Shiv Nadar is actively involved with the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) initiative that is the first of its kind in India, symbolizing a true public – private partnership. The objectives of the PHFI are to act as a think tank on policy issues related to health system, to establish standards in public health education and to create a network of innovative world class India–relevant institutes of public health. Besides these, he ... supports initiatives in the fields of the "girl child" and "empowering women".
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