C Sivasankaran

Serial entrepreneur



Hardly few could argue about the indelible marks left on the Indian
technology arena by this maverick Tamil businessman in over two decades.

Starting out as fabrication contractor for MRL (now CPCL), this serial

entrepreneur bought Sterling Computers from Robert Amritraj, father of the

tennis star, Vijay Amritraj, in the 80s and created a sensation in the hardware

circle by selling PCs for as low as Rs 33,000. The telecom bug bit him in the

90s when he launched Aircel that became a formidable force in South India. And

Dishnet DSL, the country's first DSL ISP. Though his telecom jouney has ended

with the selling of Aircel to Telekom Malaysia, and Dishnet to VSNL, wait and

watch for this Harvard Business School graduate's next move.