Purnendu Chatterjee

Purnendu Chatterjee is an Indian entrepreneur. He is the founder and chairman of The Chatterjee Group (TCG)[1] and also serves as a member of the Governing Board of the Indian School of Business (ISB) in Hyderabad.[2]

Education

Chatterjee graduated from IIT, Kharagpur in 1971 later completed his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in engineering and Operations Research from the University of California, Berkeley in 1972 and 1974.[3][4]

Career

Chatterjee was a research associate at the Stanford Research Institute from 1974 to 1976. He joined McKinsey & Co. in 1976 and by 1984 was promoted to a partner of the company.[4] Chatterjee established The Chatterjee Group (TCG) in 1986, which today has diversified interests which includes investment banking, real estate, petrochemicals and life sciences.[5] With its headquarters in New York City,[6][4] TCG employs over 8000 people worldwide.[7]

The Chatterjee Group

The Chatterjee Group is planning investments of 16 billion dollars in two petrochemicals projects in two Indian states: Tamil Nadu and Odisha.[8]

The group consist of Haldia Petrochemicals, LabVantage, Lummus Digital, Lummus Technology, Garden Vareli, Fitek, TCG Real Estate, TCG Lifesciences, MCPI, TCG Crest and many more.

References

  1. ^ "Private pitch for IT space in city". The Telegraph (India). Calcutta, India. 21 December 2003. Archived from the original on 17 September 2012. Retrieved 5 December 2010.
  2. ^ "List of ISB executive directors". Indian School of Business. Retrieved 5 December 2010.
  3. ^ "Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley announce India energy R&D program" (Press release). eurekalert.org. 3 October 2008. Retrieved 5 December 2010.
  4. ^ a b c "Passage To India, Compliments of George (int'l edition)". Archived from the original on 8 April 2012. Retrieved 5 December 2010.
  5. ^ "TCG acquires Basell assets for $5.16 bn". Financial Express. 6 May 2005. Retrieved 5 December 2010.
  6. ^ "India is the place where the world has to invest: Purnendu Chatterjee". bombaynews.net. 21 March 2010. Archived from the original on 4 October 2011. Retrieved 5 December 2010.
  7. ^ "TCG Software - TCG Group". Archived from the original on March 11, 2010. Retrieved June 4, 2010.
  8. ^ Rakshit, Avishek (24 December 2019). "TCG in talks with global firms for Odisha and Tamil Nadu mega projects". Business Standard. Retrieved 24 February 2020.