Palani G Periyasamy

Palani G Periyasamy is industrialist, economist, educationalist and a visionary. He is chairman of Chennai based PGP group of companies. He is native of Namakkal, Tamilnadu India. He is a Non Resident Indian living in USA.

tudent Life

He holds Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Presidency College, Madras University and Master of Arts in Economics. He was state top rank holder and Gold medalist. He was President of Presidency College Union. After his father sold off a large portion of his land in Nammakal, Palani came to America with his wife and only 7 dollars in his pocket. Seeing no other option, the young couple sold many of their clothes in their suitcases and went to see a mutual friend who was currently living in the USA. After obtaining a teaching job was not enough to support the family, he got a job as a courrier and found himself working almost 20 hours a day. After collecting enough money, he quit his job as a teaching professor and began to focus on the business aspect of his life.

Teaching

He was working as Asst. Professor in PSG Arts College, Coimbatore for one year. After obtained his Phd in university of Pittsburgh, there he teaches Economics for nearly 25 years and he was Director of the Graduate School of Business Management at University of Baltimore. In 1989 he resigned from his teaching job to become entrepreneur.

Industrialist

He formed PGP group of companies to start Cement factory, Sugar factory, Hotels, and Education Institutes.
* Started Dharani Sugars & Chemicals Limited in Vasudevanallur, Tirunelveli, Tamilnadu and one more unit in Polur, Tirunelveli with production capacity of 2500 TCD.
* Built and owns Delux 5 star hotel Le Royal Meridien, in Chennai. It has 243 rooms.
* Started Dharani Cements in Ariyalur Tamilnadu. Birla group acquired this unit from PGP group.
* As a Educationalist he started PGP College of Engineering & Technology, PGP College of Arts and Science, PGP Matriculation Hr. Sec. School, PGP Polytechnic and PGP I.T.I in Namakkal.
* Dharani travels is handling Air ticket for Indian air lines and Jet airways, Indian tourism and car rentals.

References

*http://dharanitravels.org/index.htm
*http://www.pgpedu.ac.in/
*http://www.leroyalmeridien-chennai.com/