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Roshni Nadar is the Executive Director and the CEO of HCL Corporation. She is the only child of HCL's founder, Shiv Nadar. Roshni is a trained classical musician, and enjoys traveling and yoga.

Early life and career
Roshni Nadar grew up in Delhi and graduated from Northwestern University majoring in Communication with a focus on Radio/TV/Film. She also graduated with a Masters in Business Administration having a focus on Social Enterprise Management and Strategy from the Kellogg School of Management.

Within a year of her joining HCL, she was elevated as executive director and CEO of HCL Corporation.

As chief executive officer and executive director of HCL Corporation, Roshni Nadar Malhotra is responsible for strategic decisions of the $6.3 billion company founded by her father Shiv Nadar. Being the only child of Nadar, who according to Forbes list is India’s ninth richest person with a personal fortune of $8.6 billion as of October 2013, she is destined to inherit the business empire that include India’s two prominent IT firms.

Prior to becoming CEO of the HCL Corporation, Roshni Nadar had been serving as the trustee of the Shiv Nadar Foundation, which runs the not-for-profit Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar College of Engineering in Chennai. She had also been involved in brand building across the HCL Group.

Roshni is married to Shikhar Malhotra, a distributor for Honda. They have known each other for 10 years from her days with CNBC, CNN and Sky. Their relationship has survived through the thick and thin of a decade.

Shiv Nadar Foundation
The Shiv Nadar Foundation is the philanthropic arm of the HCL group. Roshni joined HCL Corporation and the Foundation in April 2009, after a brief career in media as a news producer with Sky News in London and CNN America.

Roshni Nadar is overseeing the education initiatives of the Shiv Nadar Foundation. Roshni is a Trustee of the Shiv Nadar Foundation, which among its transformational educational initiatives has established the SSN College of Engineering in Chennai, today among the top private engineering colleges in India, Shiv Nadar University, VidyaGyan schools, Shiv Nadar School and the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art.

She is the driving force behind the VidyaGyan schools in Uttar Pradesh, a radical idea to induct and transform meritorious rural children from economically challenged backgrounds. VidyaGyan provides these children free, world class education to help transcend the disadvantages they face and compete with their urban counterparts.

As a member of the SSN Institutions and Shiv Nadar University Boards of Management, she is actively involved in developing the strategic roadmap of the institutions to maintain and progressively improve the benchmarks set in academics, extra-curricular development and pedagogy.

As a representative of the Shiv Nadar Foundation, she has also been involved in a joint initiative with the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation to promote the education of the Dalit and Muslim girl child in some of the most backward districts in the State of Uttar Pradesh in India. VidyaGyan schools have expanded their outreach to nearly 200,000 children in 75 districts of Uttar Pradesh, India’s most populous state.

Other than VidyaGyan, the Foundation’s initiatives include SSN Institutions in Tamil Nadu and Shiv Nadar University, an international multi-disciplinary university located in Greater Noida.

Future Plans
Roshni has stated recently that her family’s technology-focused holding company HCL Corp. is making a foray into health care. The company’s HCL Healthcare arm plans to spend 10 billion rupees ($169 million) to build a network of health clinics to treat acute and chronic ailments including diabetes, asthma, stomach and skin conditions, the 33-year-old HCL Corp. chief executive officer said in an e-mail.

The unit will start with 50 centers in and around New Delhi before expanding to small towns, the only offspring of the founder of HCL Technologies Ltd. (HCLT) and HCL Infosystems Ltd. (HCLI) said. The focus is on providing outpatient care, something that can fill in for the disappearing tradition of family physicians.

Nadar said the computer technology expertise of the group firms will help connect the clinics. HCL group’s expansion into health care won’t diminish its interest in retaining the group’s staple computer and software businesses, damping speculation her father plans to sell his stake in HCL Technologies.

HCL Corp. denied a Feb. 21 report in the Wall Street Journal that Shiv Nadar was seeking potential buyers because his only child wasn’t interested.

‘‘As a first generation inheritor, the first mandate is to preserve our family wealth and hopefully increase it,” Roshni Nadar said. “I have to take care of it. I’m here to stay.”

Honors

 * NDTV Young philanthropist of the Year 2014.