Atul Nishar

Always craving success



The seeds of entrepreneurship were planted in Atul Nishar when he was sent
by his grandfather to sell chikoos at the station. Nishar gave up his promising

career as a CA and started Aptech computer education in 1984. Together with NIIT,

Aptech defined retail IT training in India; but Nishar was not content with

Aptech's success. He set up a software company Hexaware in 1990. Having sold

off Aptech to SSI in 2003, today, the Rs 691 crore Hexaware is the cynosure of

Nishar's empire. Apart from Hexaware, Nishar has been active in the IT

industry serving as Nasscom chairman in 1999-2000, an expert member on the IT

Committee of Indian Merchants Chamber (2002-2003), chairman of the CII IT

Committee (2001-2002) and member of the Steering Committee of FICCI.