Shiv Nadar,
Founder – HCL
Chairman Emeritus & Strategic Advisor to the Board – HCL Tech
Founder & Chairman – Shiv Nadar Foundation
- Shiv Nadar is the Founder of HCL Group and the Shiv Nadar Foundation. He is also the Chairman Emeritus & Strategic Advisor to the Board of HCL Tech, a $12.3 billion global organization with 222,270 professionals operating from 60 countries.
- Nadar is credited with being one of the pioneers of the computing and IT industry in India. Under his guidance HCL has continued to ride the waves of the changing IT landscape for over 45 years and remains at the forefront of every technological revolution since 1976.While HCL started off as a hardware organization, manufacturing the country’s first indigenous computers and introducing them to the Indian consumer, it eventually evolved into a more comprehensive software services organization. HCL is in fact one of the few global IT companies founded in the 1970s that remains in existence to date.
- Throughout his career, Nadar always acknowledged that successful institution building is dependent on forging result-oriented partnerships and creating new knowledge. He steered HCL to create several valuable joint ventures and alliances that aided the organization’s emergence as a global technology enterprise. His pioneering spirit and belief in engineering and research shaped the course of the organization and is the reason that today HCL Tech boasts one of the largest IT Engineering and R&D divisions in the world.
- Nadar started his career as part of the elite DCM management trainee system. It was at DCM that he met the people with whom he later started HCL in a Delhi Barsati “akin to a garage startup” with a compelling vision that the microprocessor would change the world.
- Nadar credits his success to the education and scholarships that he received during his early years. He has always maintained that access to quality education is the most potent tool of transformation and therefore, in 1994, he established the philanthropic – Shiv Nadar Foundation. The Foundation draws heavily on Nadar’s experience of building a world-class organization like HCL. It endeavors to create institutions of transformational education that will continue to influence and nurture the country’s youth for decades to come. To this effect, the Shiv Nadar Foundation has established six institutions covering the entire spectrum of education, which aim to address the issue of quality in education, create lasting partnerships and have a strong research orientation.
- As of March 2022, Nadar has invested US$1.1 billion through the Foundation, impacting over 36,000 students directly.Data maybe updated as of March 2023 However, the Foundation’s ultimate aim is to nurture the next generation of leaders in the ideologies of symbiotic growth so that each of them may in turn aspire to affect a small change, creating a large multiplier effect. The impact of the Shiv Nadar Foundation institutions is today reflected in the aspirations of meritorious students who started their journeys from humble, geographically, remote backgrounds but are today pursuing their dreams in India as well as other countries.
- In recognition of his pioneering role in business and philanthropy in India and across the globe, Nadar has received several honors and accolades, notable being the Padma Bhushan from the President of India in 2008.
- Nadar is married to Kiran, an Asian Games medalist and internationally renowned bridge player. She is also one of the largest Indian Art collectors in the world.
The Trust
Both the Trust and institutions are named after the Chairman’s father Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar. The institutions are run on a not-for-profit basis, and aim to provide the highest quality educational and research facilities for meritorious students belonging to all economic strata.
The Trustees
Mr. Shiv Nadar – Managing Trustee – View profile
Ms. Kiran Nadar – View profile
Mr. Shikhar Malhotra – View profile
Ms. Roshni Nadar Malhotra – View profile
Board of Management
A nine member Managing Committee oversees the operations of SSN Institutions:
| Mr. Shiv Nadar, Founder SSN Trust | Permanent Special Invitee |
| Mr. R . Srinivasan, Director and CEO Redington Ltd, Global Management and Business Leader | Chairman |
| Ms. Roshni Nadar Malhotra, Trustee, SSN Trust | Member |
| Mr. T. S. Krishnamurthy, Former Chief Election Commissioner of India | Member |
| Prof. M. S. Ananth, Former Director, IIT Madras | Member |
| Mr. Subbiah Nagarajan, Senior Advisor, Daimler India Commercial Vehicle | Member |
| Mr. Sriram Rajagopal, Vice President, Human Resource, Cognizant | Member |
| Mr. P. Sivaprasad, Advocate, High Court, Chennai | Member |
| Dr. Kala Vijayakumar, President, SSN Institutions | Member Secretary |
The administrative and professional expertise of these individuals helps power the accomplishment of the institutions’ goals.
Dr. Kala Vijayakumar,
President- SSN Institutions
Greetings,
Born out of the vision of our founder, Padma Bhushan Dr. Shiv Nadar in 1996, Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar (SSN) Institutions seeks unwaveringly to maintain excellence in all aspects of education and research.
SSN has a history of attracting the most talented and promising students, whatever their economic situation is. It remains our real ideal. SSN follows an admission policy that strongly favours merit, even as it enables access to education for students from all strata of society through appropriate scholarships.
While SSN encourages its students in the path of academic excellence, we continuously strive to instil in our students, skills and traits such as critical thinking and application, a moral bent of mind, a disciplined work ethic, and most importantly, the responsibility to societal needs.
SSN aims at more than mere academic excellence. We offer our students, who come from diverse backgrounds, the widest possible scope and opportunity for academic exploration and all round growth. A blend of co-curricular and extra-curricular activities that we organize ensure that each student gets adequate opportunities to display his or her varied skill sets and latent talents. These programs nurture qualities like leadership, kinship, discipline, organizational skills and the ability to manage diverse opinions, thoughts and points of view.
Apart from involving in this mission towards excellence, SSN keeps its vision constantly on public service and the fulfilment of the confidence that society lays upon us. SSN strives to provide a unique setting for stimulating creative thoughts which ensure that every student who graduates from its portals scores high in public-spiritedness and remains committed to the society concerned. Compassion, humaneness and commitment to every section of the society are hallmarks of the brains that get trained at SSN.
SSN lays huge stress on continuous research focused on socially-relevant issues. Our committed faculty forms the backbone for every endeavour we enter into.
It is my pleasure to invite every visitor to this website. Come, explore the growth of the brightest hearts and minds of this organization.
Welcome to Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar (SSN) Institutions.
- SSN Institutions, founded by Founder and Chairman Emeritus Mr. Shiv Nadar, Chairman, HCL Technologies, stands out as a premier centre of higher learning with a mission of pursuing excellence in education and research. The institutions are named after the Chairman’s father Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar.
- The institutions, with their diverse and dynamic community of students offer a distinctive combination of some of the finest graduate, undergraduate and research programs, accomplished faculty, world class facilities and a residential campus set on a sprawling 230 acres of sylvan surroundings.
- SSN Institutions provide a variety of stimulating environments for intellectual development, free-thinking, and personal growth, challenging its students with dynamic learning opportunities and equipping them with the skills, insights, attitudes and practical experiences that are necessary to take up responsibilities in the society.
- While students at SSN immerse themselves in academics, the college has a lot in store for them outside the classroom. Student life includes participation in sports, recreational, co-curricular and cultural activities. In short, at SSN, students will find an academic and social environment where everyone- from faculty members to peers helps shape their future.
- SSN is a home to aesthetically-designed buildings with state of the-art computer and internet facilities, modern workshops, seminar halls, auditoriums and well-stocked libraries, sports and games fields in addition to an indoor stadium with gymnasium.
- SSN College of Engineering has a faculty strength of 275 with a faculty student ratio of 1 faculty for every 15 students.
- As an exemplary institution of learning, SSN follows an admission policy that strongly favours merit, even as it enables access to education for students from all strata of society through appropriate scholarships. The Institution boasts of a strong alumni network with alumni events held every year serving as a platform for past students to give back to SSN and share their experiences with its present fellow students.
- With so much to offer, it is only natural that students of SSN get a unique opportunity to carve a niche for themselves in their preferred field of study that would enable them to become well-rounded and discerning citizens, fully qualified for their chosen professions in the workplace.