V. M. Muralidharan | |
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Born |
Madras, India |
December 29, 1959
Residence | Chennai, India |
Nationality | Indian |
Alma mater |
College of Engineering, Guindy Loyola College, Chennai St. Bede's Anglo Indian Higher Secondary School |
Occupation | Chairman at Ethiraj College for Women Global COO at Bahwan CyberTek Group |
Known for | Youngest & the first person from the Founder & First Chairman V. L. Ethiraj's family to become the Chairman of Ethiraj College for Women. |
Spouse(s) | Kalpana Muralidharan (m. 1988) |
Children | Varshini Saravan Krishna |
Parent(s) | V. J. Madhavan Chandrika Madhavan |
Awards | "Edupreneur Award" "Eminent Educationist Award" "Vocational Excellence Award" |
Honors | "Penn Kalviyin Perumagan (Don of Women's Education)" |
Website | V |
Vellore Madhavan Muralidharan, better known as Mike Muralidharan, (born 29 December 1959) is an Indian educationist and IT industry veteran. Currently, he is the Chairman of Ethiraj College for Women and the Global COO of Bahwan CyberTek Group.
He is also a Trustee at ALERT NGO and a Charter Member on the Concordia India Advisory Board of Concordia College (New York).
Muralidharan was born on 29 December 1959 in Chennai, India. He is the son of V. J. Madhavan, a banker, and Chandrika Madhavan, a homemaker. His family hails from Vellore. He grew up in the city of Chennai.
Muralidharan did his schooling at St. Bede's Anglo Indian Higher Secondary School. He did his pre-university education at Loyola College, Chennai. He completed his Bachelor's with Honors degree in Electronics & Communication Engineering in 1983 from the College of Engineering, Guindy.
He is married to Kalpana Muralidharan and they have two children, Varshini and Saravan Krishna.
Muralidharan started his career with two of India’s biggest IT giants – Wipro, where he worked for 7 years between 1983 and 1990 and HCL, 10 years, between 1990 and 2000. In his role as General Manager at HCL in 2000, he was heading the operations at Bangalore, the IT capital of India.
He moved to Precision Group in 2001 to build and lead the technology services company Precision Techserve, his entrepreneurship venture. As the Director & President, he grew Precision Techserve to a multi-million US$ 650+ people organization. In 2006, Precision Techserve setup a Global Competency Centre in Chennai to provide Remote Infrastructure Management services for the global market. After receiving a strategic investment in 2007 and completing his obligations, he exited the company effective January 1, 2010.
At present, since 2010, in his role as the Global COO of Bahwan CyberTek Group, US$ 250M global software products and solutions company, he spearheads the global operations and steers the organization’s business.
As the Chairman of Ethiraj College Trust, since September 2013, he heads the renowned Ethiraj College for Women, Chennai and the Ethiraj Matriculation School, Vellore. Both campuses together house close to 10,000 students. Muralidharan, great grand nephew of the Founder & First Chairman V. L. Ethiraj, is the youngest & the first person from the founder's family to head the Ethiraj College Trust.