“My colleagues and I were engineers who worked for DCM's calculator division. These electronic calculators used digital integrated circuits, and then they started using chips. The advanced versions of those chips were used for programmable calculators, which were the forerunners of PCs.”

Indian businessman and philanthropist

Shiv Nadar is an Indian businessman and philanthropist known for founding HCL Technologies. Born in India, he built HCL in 1976 and later led its shift from an IT hardware company into a wider technology enterprise. He is also the chairman of the Shiv Nadar Foundation. Over the following decades, Nadar became closely associated with the growth of India’s technology sector through HCL. His work spans business leadership and philanthropy, with his public profile shaped by both the company he founded and the foundation he leads.