page_title: Satjiv S. Chahil
section_title: Early life and education
hierarchical_section_title: Satjiv S. Chahil / Early life and education
caption_attribution_description: English: amfAR
context_page_description: Satjiv Singh Chahil is an India-born American global inter-cultural and inter-disciplinary innovator and business executive. He has had a significant influence in shaping marketing in Silicon Valley, connecting high-tech to the worlds of entertainment, sports, music and fashion. He is widely acknowledged also for his ability to drive global adoption of technology innovations.
context_section_description: Chahil was born in Amritsar, India on October 19, 1950 to Pritam Singh Chahil (father) and Champa Chahil (née Dugal) (mother). Pritam Singh was a member of the Indian hockey contingent to the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin. He was a publisher, public service worker, and an educationist. He also initiated and funded the development of the first automatic Punjabi language typesetting machine. Pritam Singh is recognized for his Roman alphabet English language transliteration of the entire Sri Guru Granth Sahib.
  Chahil studied at The Lawrence School, Sanawar, India, earning the Indian School Certificate (administered by the University of Cambridge) in 1967. He was graduated from Punjab University, Chandigarh, India in 1971 with a Bachelor of Commerce degree. Chahil went on to earn a master's degree from the Thunderbird School of Global Management in 1976.
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