Lalit Surajmal Kanodia
| Dr. Lalit Kanodia | |
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Dr. Lalit Kanodia in 2015
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| Born |
March 30, 1941 Kolkata, India |
| Residence | Mumbai, India |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Education |
1959-1963 Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India. Mechanical Engineering 1963-1967 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge. United States, MBA & Ph.D in Management |
| Organization | Datamatics Global Services Ltd |
| Home town | Mahendragarh, Haryana, India |
| Spouse(s) | Mrs. Asha Kanodia (m. 19 November 1965) |
| Children |
Rahul Kanodia Sameer Kanodia Aneesha and Amrita |
| Website | www.datamatics.com |
1959-1963 Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India. Mechanical Engineering
Rahul Kanodia
Sameer Kanodia
Dr. Lalit Kanodia (born March 30, 1941) is an active Indian Business Entrepreneur. He is credited with having created the Software Industry of India as the Founder CEO of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), earlier called Tata Computer Center during 1967-1970. He is currently Chairman of Datamatics Group of Companies which he founded in 1975. He also holds the position of National President of the Indo - American Chamber of Commerce and Vice President of the Indian Merchants Chamber, both prestigious organizations of the Indian business community. He has also served as President of the Management Consultants Association of India.
Lalit Kanodia was born in Kolkata (then Calcutta) in West Bengal (India), the son of Shri Surajmal Kanodia, a bullion merchant and Smt. Chandravati Kanodia, a home maker. His family moved to Mumbai in 1942.
Lalit attended Bombay Scottish School in Mumbai. Besides his academics, he actively participated in athletics and sports and captained his schools’ football Team. Lalit studied Science in Elphinstone College, Bombay University for 2 years. He was then admitted to IIT, Bombay, where he studied Mechanical Engineering. After graduating in 1963, Lalit secured admission to MIT, Cambridge, MA and completed his MS in Management in 1965 with the highest grade in the graduating class. He was awarded the Ford Foundation Fellowship while at MIT. He returned to MIT in 1966 for his PhD in management, which he completed in 1967. Lalit was a member of the Project MAC at MIT that built Compatible Time-Sharing System and MULTICS (the first two multi-user computer operating systems & pre-cursors to UNIX).
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