Arjun Malhotra

The samaritan


Arjun Malhora started HCL operations with six colleagues in 1976 from his
grandmother's barsati in South Delhi. During his 25-year-long stint with HCL,
he gave the group an international face, which subsequently had a profound
impact on Indian software sector. HCL Technologies America, the HCL-HP JV in
India and the Australasia operations were his significant achievements. Once he
quit HCL, he launched TechSpan in 1998, focusing on capital markets solution, in
the US which subsequently merged with Headstrong in 2003. He founded the Prof GS
Sanyal School of Telecommunications at IIT Kharagpur, his alma mater, through
personal endowment of Rs 3 crore and also serves as chairman of Vision 2020, an
alumni initiative to raise a $200 mn endowment fund for IIT Kharagpur by the
year 2020.