Sridhar Vembu

Sridhar Vembu (born 1968) is an Indian billionaire businessman. He created the Zoho Corporation. He has a net worth of $3.75 billion which makes him the 55th richest person in India. He was also awarded the Padma Shri in 2021.

 Early life 
Vembu was born in 1968 in a middle-class family, in a village in Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras in 1989. He earned MS and PhD degrees from Princeton University in New Jersey.

 Career 
Vembu started his career working for Qualcomm as a wireless engineer in San Diego, California, before moving to the San Francisco Bay Area.

In 1996, Vembu created software development company for network equipment providers called AdventNet with two of his brothers. The company was renamed Zoho Corporation in 2009, focusing on providing support to Customer relationship management services. 
Honours
Vembu was awarded the 2019 Ernst & Young "Entrepreneur of the Year Award" in India. He was also the recipient of the Padma Shri, India's fourth highest civilian honor, in 2021. He has also been selected as CNN-News18 Indian of the Year 2022. He was also appointed to the National Security Advisory Board (NSAB) of India in 2021.

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