Who is Roshni Nadar, the first woman to head a listed Indian IT firm?
The country’s richest woman Roshni Nadar Malhotra on Friday became the first woman to head a listed Indian IT company as she took over as the Chairperson of USD 8.9 billion HCL Technologies from her father and billionaire Shiv Nadar.
Roshni went ahead of the leading group of HCL Technologies in 2013 and was Vice-Chairperson. She will proceed as CEO of HCL Corporation, the holding organization for all the gathering substances.
On Friday, HCL Technologies reported that its author and administrator Shiv Nadar ventured down from the job and the organization’s Board of Directors has delegated his little girl, Roshni, as the new executive with quick impact.
Shiv Nadar, be that as it may, would keep on being the Managing Director of the organization with an assignment as Chief Strategy Officer, the organization said in an announcement.
As per the organization site, Shiv Nadar is the director of the USD 9.9 billion HCL Corp. HCL Group incorporates HCL Technologies, HCL Infosystem, and HCL Healthcare.
HCL Technologies CEO C. Vijayakumar said this was a piece of the organization’s progression arranging exercise.
Profile
Roshni learned at Vasant Valley School, Delhi and graduated in correspondence with a concentration in radio/TV/film from Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. She additionally sought after MBA from Kellogg School of Management.
She worked with Sky News UK and CNN America as a newsmaker before joining HCL Corp in 2009, and inside a year was made official chief and afterward CEO at 27 years old.
Roshni wedded Shikhar Malhotra, Vice Chairman of HCL Healthcare, in 2010 and the couple has two children — Armaan and Jahaan.
As indicated by the most recent Hurun Rich List, she is India’s most extravagant lady with total assets of ₹36,800 crores. In 2019, she positioned 54th on the Forbes World’s 100 Most Powerful Women list.
She set up The Habitats Trust in 2018 that progresses in the direction of ensuring India’s characteristic natural surroundings and its indigenous species and has driven transformational endeavors in the territory of training as a trustee of the Shiv Nadar Foundation.
Industry body Nasscom tweeted a celebratory message to Roshni. “Congrats #RoshniNadarMalhotra on your new job as Chief of @hcltech. Eager to see another #WomanInTech assume responsibility in the working environment! We are certain HCL will accomplish significantly more noteworthy statures later on under your authority,” it said.
Roshni has gotten a few distinctions and honors in acknowledgment of her work both in business and in magnanimity and is a prepared old-style performer.
She included in ‘The World’s 100 Most Powerful Women’ list ordered and discharged by Forbes in 2017, 2018, and 2019, sequentially. She was additionally met with the Lewis Institute Community Changemaker Award by Babson College in 2017 and was perceived by Horasis, a globally famous research organization, as the Indian Business Leader of the Year 2019.
Roshni is likewise a former student of the Forum of Young Global Leaders (YGL, 2014-19), a various network of the world’s cutting edge pioneers, an activity of the World Economic Forum.
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