Title:
Confessions a Serial Dreamer: A Broader Conception of Entrepreneurship
Bio:
Sandy Chandra is a graduate of Indian Institute of Technology and MBA from Rutgers University.
Sandy
is a serial entrepreneur, focusing on building world class technology
businesses. He is currently recreating a global technology consulting
firm with deep domain focus on a number of areas such as Financial
services, Health Care, Life Sciences, Manufacturing and Technology,
security and defence. The underlying core competence is each of the
areas is built around managing big data in the context real time
Before
this Sandy spent 10 years as a turnaround specialist focused on the
acquisition and turnaround of seven distressed companies in India,
Europe and USA. In this role, he has had significant exposure to India’s
agriculture, manufacturing and engineering consulting sectors. Sandy
has worked in villages of India as well as dealing with labor realtions
and has deep understanding of needs of the Indian society
Sandy
started his career at Lummus Crest (then part of Asea Brown Boveri) and
was with them for over 18 years. Sandy was involved as a conceptual
thinker and designer of some world’s largest and most complex petroleum,
petrochemical and oil and gas facilities, and was responsible for
building Reliance Industries’ major petrochemical assets in India. At
the end of his tenure at Lummus Crest, he was the Managing Director for
the Indian operations and was responsible for building the largest
offshore engineering centers in India.
Sandy
and wife Lakshmi have created a Foundation active in promoting
classical Indian performing arts in India and the USA. Additionally,
they are very active with respect to a number of charitable institutions
serving the underprivileged.
Sandy
is a student of foreign policy and matters concerning human development
and rights, and is currently focused on seeding a think tank focused on
human rights in India.
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