Young Business Tycoon and CEO of HCL Corporation
Roshni Nadar
Roshni Nadar, the only daughter of Indian tech
billionaire Shiv Nadar, is the Executive Director and the
CEO of HCL Corporation. Roshni Nadar did her graduation from the Northwestern
University majoring in radio, television and film and did internships with CNBC
and CNN. Her first job was at Sky News in London. Her father however wanted her
to go to the B-school and made the point that she could never be a Rupert Murdoch
unless she learned how to manage a business. She accordingly completed her MBA in
Social Enterprise Management and Strategy from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management.
In B-School young business tycoon acquired a separate
set of skills. Her family foundation already being active in the field of education,
she felt that she could use those skills best in that sphere. This is something
that she really wants to do and it is like her own entrepreneurial venture. Biography of Roshni Nadar is very interesting and
reader can learn from her.
Before becoming CEO of the HCL Corp., Roshni Nadar was trained by her father to
take charge of Shiv Nadar Foundation, the family’s philanthropic arm. She had been
serving as the trustee of the Shiv Nadar Foundation, which runs the not-for-profit
Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar College of Engineering in Chennai. She had also been involved
in brand building across the HCL Group. Roshni Nadar is overseeing the education
initiatives of the Shiv Nadar Foundation. These initiatives include the proposed
Shiv Nadar University and the VidyaGyan rural schools aimed at the poor rural children
with free education.
Her appointment in April as chief executive of HCL, the holding company that has
stakes in Nadar's two listed flagships, HCL Technologies (India's fourth-largest
software firm) and hardware outfit HCL Info systems, was publicly announced in July
2009.
In 2010, Roshni Nadar was listed among Forbes magazine's list of ‘a breed of heiresses
who choose to live a lower-key life and working to make a difference behind the
scenes.’
