Lalit Surajmal Kanodia
Indian business entrepreneur (born 1941)
Lalit Surajmal Kanodia (born 30 March 1941) is an Indian entrepreneur. He is the founder and chairman of the Datamatics Group.2
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Born Mar 30, 1941.1
About
He has held positions in business organisations such as the Indo-American Chamber of Commerce, the Indian Merchants Chamber, and served as president of the Management Consultants Association of India.
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Companies
- Datamatics Global ServicesFounder10
Early life and education
- Date not recordedMassachusetts Institute of Technology3
- Date not recordedIndian Institute of Technology Bombay3
Kanodia was born in Kolkata, India, to Surajmal Kanodia, a bullion merchant, and Chandravati Kanodia, a homemaker. His family moved to Mumbai in 1942.
Kanodia attended the Bombay Scottish School in Mumbai, where he captained the football team and competed in athletics. He studied science at Elphinstone College, Bombay University, for two years and then was admitted to the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay to study Mechanical Engineering. After graduating in 1963, he earned a Master of Science in Management from MIT in 1965, supported by a Ford Fosndation Fellowship, and returned to MIT in 1966 to complete his PhD in management in 1967 Kanodia was a member of Project MAC at MIT, which developed the Compatible Time-Sharing System and MULTICS (early multi-user computer operating systems and precursors to UNIX).
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Career
Occupation: businessperson.5
- Date not recordedFounded Datamatics Global Services4
Personal life
Kanodia has four children with his wife, Asha. His eldest son, Rahul Kanodia is the vice chairman and CEO of Datamatics Global Services, and his youngest son, Sameer Kanodia, is an Executive Director. He also has two daughters, Aneesha and Amrita.
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Awards
- Date not recordedHonorary Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire9
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- 11Wikimedia CommonsLalit Surajmal Kanodia photo by Avanchak, CC BY-SA 4.0