Lakshmi Venu is the joint managing director in Sundaram Clayton. She is a part of a prominent Indian business family.

Background and education

Lakshmi is the daughter of

Venu Srinivasan Venu Srinivasan is an Indian industrialist. He is Chairman Emeritus of TVS Motor Company, one of the leading manufacturers of two-wheelers in the world and Sundaram-Clayton Limited, a leading manufacturer of auto components in India. He also serv ...

and

Mallika Srinivasan Mallika Srinivasan (born 1959) is an Indian industrialist and is the Chairman and Managing Director of Tractors and Farm Equipment Limited, a tractor major incorporated in 1960 at Chennai, India. She is also the Chairperson of the Public Enterp ...

. Both of Lakshmi's parents run separate business empires which they inherited from their respective fathers. Venu Srinivasan runs the

TVS Group TVS Group is an Indian multinational conglomerate with its principal headquarters in Madurai and international headquarters in Chennai. It has more than 50 subsidiaries including the two-wheeler manufacturer TVS Motor Company and TVS Supply ...

(Sundaram-Clayton Group) founded by his grandfather

T. V. Sundaram Iyengar Thirukkurungudi Vengaram Sundram Iyengar (22 March 1877 – 28 April 1955) was an Indian industrialist and automobile pioneer. In 1911, he founded T. V. Sundram Iyengar & Sons, a bus company which later diversified into automobile production and ...

, while Mallika Srinivasan runs the TAFE Group companies (of the

Amalgamations Group The Amalgamations Group (a.k.a. Simpson Group) is an Indian business conglomerate based in Chennai which has several business interests in Manufacturing Tractors, Automobile ancillaries, Plantation, Trading and services. The most notable being ...

) inherited from her father, A. Sivasailam. Lakshmi has one brother,

Sudarshan Venu Sudarshan may refer to: People * Hanumappa Sudarshan, Right Livelihood and Padma Shri award winner, known for his work with the Soliga tribes of Karnataka, India * George Sudarshan, a prominent Indian American physicist, author, and professor at th ...

. She grew up in

Chennai Chennai (, ), formerly known as Madras ( the official name until 1996), is the capital city of Tamil Nadu, the southernmost Indian state. The largest city of the state in area and population, Chennai is located on the Coromandel Coast of th ...

and studied at

Sishya School Sishya is an Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (ICSE) syllabus Indian school, based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. Founded in 1972 by Mr K.I. Thomas, it has grown from just 28 students to over a thousand students, and 2 branches. It is affilia ...

in Adyar. She did her degree in economics from

Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...

and then her Doctorate in Engineering Management from

University of Warwick The University of Warwick ( ; abbreviated as ''Warw.'' in post-nominal letters) is a public research university on the outskirts of Coventry between the West Midlands (county), West Midlands and Warwickshire, England. The university was founded i ...

Career

Lakshmi was appointed Joint managing director in Sundaram Clayton at a young age.

Personal life

In 2011, she married

Rohan Murty Rohan Narayana Murty is a junior fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows, founder of the Murty Classical Library of India and founder and chief technical officer of the digital transformation company Soroco, which specialises in automation us ...

, son of Infosys founder N. R. Narayana Murthy and

Sudha Murthy Sudha Murty (' Kulkarni; born 19 August 1951) is an Indian educator, author and philanthropist who is chairperson of the Infosys F ...

. They divorced in 2015. In March 2018, it was announced that Lakshmi had married Mahesh Gogineni in a private ceremony held in

Jodhpur Jodhpur (; ) is the second-largest city in the Indian state of Rajasthan and officially the second metropolitan city of the state. It was formerly the seat of the princely state of Jodhpur State. Jodhpur was historically the capital of the Ki ...

. Mahesh Gogineni, is the grandson of

N. G. Ranga Gogineni Ranga Nayukulu (7 November 1900 – 9 June 1995), also known as N. G. Ranga, was an Indian freedom fighter, classical liberal, parliamentarian and farmers' leader. He was the founding president of the Swatantra Party, and an exponen ...

. He is a first-generation entrepreneur who runs a small-time tech start-up.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Venu, Lakshmi 1983 births Indian women chief executives Living people Businesspeople from Chennai Automotive industry in India People in the automobile industry Businesswomen from Tamil Nadu TVS Group