Shiv Nadar

Shiv Nadar is an Indian billionaire industrialist and philanthropist. He is the founder and chairman of HCL 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.

  • Indian IT pioneer Shiv Nadar cofounded HCL in a garage in 1976 to make calculators and microprocessors.
  • Today, he chairs HCL Technologies, an $8.9 billion (revenue) company that is one of India’s largest software services providers.
  • In December 2018, HCL Technologies agreed to buy some software products from IBM for $1.8 billion.
  • HCL Technologies, which employs 143,000 people worldwide, hires high school grads and trains them on the job.
  • One of India’s leading philanthropists, Nadar has donated $662 million to his Shiv Nadar Foundation, which backs education-related causes.

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