SoCultures October 2018
HCL’s R&D unit is currently a top IT services company in India and a global
leader in Engineering & R&D Services with a game changing business model.
HCL, from implementing and managing the infrastructure backbone of one of
India financial institutions – the National Stock Exchange to creating largest
distribution network with Nokia, has many trailblazing achievements and there’s
no looking back. HCL has evolved into an over $8.5 billion global enterprise with
over 125,000 professionals from 140 diverse nationalities, who operate from 41
countries, including over 500 points of presence in India.
Then came HCL Healthcare and in 1994, Nadar established what he believed was
closest to his heart – the philanthropic Shiv Nadar Foundation. Now Shiv Nadar
schools and Universities are building the future generations of the nation.
Accolades and awards:
His well deserved contribution to the society has been hailed and praised world
over. After all we need such iconic people whose life itself is a message to the
world. Honoured with Padma Bhushan from the President of India in 2008, the
BNP Paribas Grand Prize for Individual Philanthropy in 2013, the AIMA
Managing India Corporate Citizen Award, the ICSI Lifetime Achievement Award
for excellence in Corporate Governance and the Golden Peacock Award for Social
Leadership in 2014. He was also named the Outstanding Philanthropist of the Year
in 2015 by Forbes. In the year 2016, Shiv Nadar was named as the most generous
Indian by the Hurun India Philanthropy List 2016, acknowledging him in the
ranking of the most generous individuals from India.
Shiv Nadar often says that he is a product of education. He is restless, passionate
and a creative institution builder who also likes to quote Andy Grove by stating
“Only the Paranoid Survive”.
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