Shiv Nadar
Delhi, India
Bachelor of Arts/Science, PSG College of Technology
India
software services, Self Made
$14,300,000,000
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#82 Billionaires 2019
#6 India's Richest 2018
Indian IT pioneer Shiv Nadar cofounded HCL in a garage in 1976 to make calculators and microprocessors. Today, he chairs HCL Technologies, an $8.2 billion (revenue) company that is India's fourth-largest software services provider. In December 2018, HCL Technologies agreed to buy some software products from IBM for $1.8 billion.HCL Technologies, which employs close to 128,000 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.
Nadar's education was primarily in the south Indian language of Tamil, and he didn't start speaking much English until age 22.Nadar's wife Kiran, who is an avid art collector, has two private art museums in Delhi that showcase her vast collection.
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