Shiv Nadar

Shiv Nadar is an Indian billionaire industrialist. He is the founder and chairman of HCL Technologies Limited 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. In 2008, Nadar was awarded Padma Bhushan for his efforts in the IT industry. Nadar, nicknamed by friends as Magus, since the mid-1990s has focused his efforts on developing the educational system of India through the Shiv Nadar Foundation. Ramanichandran, a prolific Tamil romance novelist is his cousin. He is the third richest person in India with a net worth of US$26 billion as of January 2021, according to Forbes.