Shiv Nadar Height, Weight, Age, Facts, Biography

Shiv Nadar is an Indian industrialist and philanthropist who co-founded the billion-dollar company known to the common man as HCL. Besides that, he is also the proud founder of the Shiv Nadar Foundation and is a receiver of the prestigious Padma Bhushan award.

Sun Sign

Cancer

Residence

Tamil Nadu, India

Girlfriend / Spouse

Shiv’s name has been linked with –

1. Kiran Nadar – The couple has a daughter named Roshni Nadar. Roshni is the Executive Director and the CEO of HCL Enterprise and also the only child of Shiv and Kiran.

Sexual Orientation

Straight

Distinctive Features

He prefers to keep a clean shaved head and thick beard.

Shiv Nadar Facts

1. He was brought up in the Moolaipozhi Village.
2. Shiv’s mother is the sister of lawyer, politician, and founder of the Dina Thanthi newspaper, Si. Balasubramania Athithan.
3. During his schooling years, Shiv studied in various schools across the Tamil Nadu.
4. In 1967, he started working for Walchand Group‘s College of Engineering, Pune. However, he quit his job there in order to join a group of friends who aspired to start a firm of there own. Two of them were Ajai Chowdhry who in 2020, was the Ex-Chairman at HCL Infosystems and Arjun Malhotra who works as the CEO and Chairman at Headstrong.
5. Shiv had started his business journey under the brand name Microcomp under which he sold teledigital calculators across India.
6. Nadar and his friends co-founded HCL in 1976. They had invested a total of INR 187,000. However, it wasn’t until their business started selling its software with the opening of Far East Computers in Singapore that HCL experienced a boom in its profits.
7. He was presented with the prestigious Padma Bhushan award in 2008.
8. Nadar was ranked at #16th in “India’s 50 most powerful people of 2017” list by India Today.

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