Ramalinga Raju

Ramalinga Raju

Ramalinga Raju Byrraju (born September 16, 1954),in Andhra Pradesh is an Indian businessman, and a pioneer of the Information Technology industry in India.

He is the Chairman of Satyam Computer Services Ltd. It was founded in 1987 after venturing earlier into other businesses such as construction and textiles. Raju had acquired a B. Com from Andhra Loyola College at Vijayawada prior to receiving an MBA degree from Ohio University. He has attended the Owner/President course at Harvard.For his achievements and contribution to society, he has been awarded Doctorate by Anna University Chennai on 14 Dec 2007.Raju has a very strong social orientation and has quietly been furthering the cause of social transformation through Byrraju Foundation and other initiatives such as [http://www.emri.in/ EMRI] .

Awards

*Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Services award 1999.
*Dataquest IT Man of the Year Award 2000.
*Asia Business Leader Award 2002.
*E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year 2007

Satyam computers is an MNC located at Hyderabad. This is one of the companies to have turnover in billion dollars and was established by Ramalinga Raju.

Ramalinga Raju was born in Bhimavaram. He was influenced by his father. He was an average student in class. He completed his degree from Loyola College at Vijayawada and then went to US to pursue his MBA at Ohio University. That was the turning point in his life. He learned a great deal during his time at OU and in the US. During that time he foresaw the upcoming trend of outsourcing and the future prominence of computers. He started an IT company with 20 employees and bagged multitude of IT projects from US companies. Now the company has rapidly developed and became a true multinational company with thousands of employees spread over multiple countries.

According to Forbes, Net Worth is estimated at $650 million.

External links

* [http://www.forbes.com/2004/12/08/04indialand.html Forbes.com: India's 40 Richest]
* [http://www.businessweek.com/it100/2005/company/SAY.htm Profile on businessweek.com]


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