S hiv Nadar is a self-made Indian billionaire who is a pioneer of the country's information technology industry. He is the founder and chairman emeritus of HCL Technologies, a major global IT services and consulting company. He founded the company in the 1970s from a garage, initially as a maker of microcomputers. He has since built HCL into a massive global powerhouse in the IT services sector, with a major presence in software development, infrastructure management, and business process outsourcing.

He is considered one of the founding fathers of the Indian IT industry and has been a major figure in the country's technological and economic development. He has since retired from an executive role and has handed over the chairmanship of the company to his only daughter, Roshni Nadar Malhotra. He is now one of India's most prominent philanthropists, having established the Shiv Nadar Foundation, which has a strong focus on education and has founded a series of schools and a university. He is a signatory of the Giving Pledge.