Shiv Nadar

A vision to excel



For a man educated in the Tamil medium and who saw a city for the first time
only when he was 22, Shiv Nadar has indeed come a long way. Today he heads the

country's biggest IT conglomerate. He started Microcomp in 1976 (rechristened

as HCL) with six friends with a capital base of Rs 1.75 lakh borrowed from his

PF. And, this after relinquishing his job, heading DCM DP, the youngest head in

that company's history. When IBM quit India, Nadar moved quickly to replace

the vacated space and since then HCL has never looked back. The admirable thing

about Nadar has been that he never rested on his laurels. So, even after HCL

became India's #1. hardware company, he ventured into software services,

training, networking, BPO and even distribution.