Chinnakannan Sivasankaran

Chinnakannan Sivasankaran

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Chinnakannan Sivasankaran Profile

  • Name:
  • Chinnakannan Sivasankaran
  • Born:
  • July 29, 1956

Chinnakannan Sivasankaran Biography

Chinnakannan Sivasankaran is a businessman, entrepreneur and the Chairman of Siva Group, which was formerly known as Sterling Infotech. Siva Group with a long list of diversified products currently owns 33 companies across the world and this business typhoon owns an asset of $4 billion. He is credited for PC revolution in India in 1980s by providing personal computers at a cheap cost, at one third of the prevailing cost. He also pioneered the mobile revolution in the 1990s and he is credited to introducing DSL and Wi-Max broadband technologies in India. He is known for keeping low public profile and very rarely appears in public. He launched mobile service provider – Aircel in the late 1990s which is quite popular in Tamil Nadu and neighbouring states.

 
Sivasankaran was born in 1956 in Chennai. His father owned a business firm - MRL (now Chennai Petroleum Corporation) and Chinnakannan started his professional career as a fabrication contractor with MRL. He bought Sterling Computers from Robert Amritraj in the 1980s which proved to be the big success of his professional career. He sold computers at a very cheap rate of 33,000 rupees and changed its name ‘Sterling Computers’ to Siva PC. He created headlines in newspapers for selling PCs at this cheap rate and very soon his company branched to a big corporate firm. In those days, PCs were sold for 80,000 Indian rupees and that’s how Shiva gained quick attention from public.

 
In the early 1990s he acquired license to sell PCs in other states and very soon diversified his business to mobile phones and other industries as well. Siva Group of Companies also includes - Siva Shipping (established in 2008), WinWinD, Aiwo (health food chain) and S Tel.

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Updated: July 21, 2014

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