About SACE

One of the hallmarks of a successful educational institution is its ability to interact with industry, understand the requirements and create industry ready professionals. SSN School of Advanced Career Education (SSN SACE) has been established with a mission to create world class professionals in emerging technologies.

SSN SACE offers educational programs for professionals to enable them to enhance their knowledge and skills thereby augmenting their career. Recognizing the need for trained manpower in tools and techniques used in Industry 4.0, SSN SACE has established a Center of Excellence in Industry 4.0 to offer educational programs and consultancy in this field.

About SACE

One of the hallmarks of a successful educational institution is its ability to interact with industry, understand the requirements and create industry ready professionals. SSN School of Advanced Career Education (SSN SACE) has been established with a mission to create world class professionals in emerging technologies.

SSN SACE offers educational programs for professionals to enable them to enhance their knowledge and skills thereby augmenting their career. Recognizing the need for trained manpower in tools and techniques used in Industry 4.0, SSN SACE has established a Center of Excellence in Industry 4.0 to offer educational programs and consultancy in this field.

Vision

Our vision is to create world class professionals in emerging technologies by designing and delivering innovative programs with industry collaboration.

“Our vision is to contribute to and promote the fourth industrial revolution by offering education service and consultancy in emerging technologies and tools to empower industries to achieve excellence.”

Mission

Mr.Shiv Nadar

Founder & Chairman

Founder & Chairman

Shiv Nadar is the Founder of HCL Enterprise, a $11.8 billion global organization with over 211,000 professionals operating from 52 countries. He is also the Chairman Emeritus & Strategic Advisor to the Board of HCL Technologies, a group company and India’s third largest IT services organization. Nadar is credited with being one of the pioneers of the computing and IT industry in India. Under his guidance HCL has continued to ride the waves of the changing IT landscape for over 45 years and remain at the forefront of every technological revolution since 1976. While HCL started off as a hardware organization, manufacturing the country’s first indigenous computers and introducing them to the Indian consumer, it eventually evolved into a more comprehensive software services organization. HCL is in fact one of the few global IT companies founded in the 1970s that remains in existence to date.

Throughout his career, Nadar always acknowledged that successful institution building is dependent on forging result-oriented partnerships and creating new knowledge. He steered HCL to create several valuable joint ventures and alliances that aided the organization’s emergence as a global technology enterprise. His pioneering spirit and belief in engineering and research shaped the course of the organization and is the reason that today HCL Technologies boasts one of the largest IT Engineering and R&D divisions in the world.

Nadar started his career as part of the elite DCM management trainee system. It was at DCM that he met the people with whom he later started HCL in a Delhi Barsati “akin to a garage startup” with a compelling vision that the microprocessor would change the world.

Nadar credits his success to the education and scholarships that he received during his early years. He has always maintained that access to quality education is the most potent tool of transformation and therefore, in 1994, he established the philanthropic – Shiv Nadar Foundation. The Foundation draws heavily on Nadar’s experience of building a world-class organization like HCL. It endeavors to create institutions of transformational education that will continue to influence and nurture the country’s youth for decades to come. To this effect, the Shiv Nadar Foundation has established six institutions covering the entire spectrum of education, which aim to address the issue of quality in education, create lasting partnerships and have a strong research orientation.

As of March 2022, Nadar has invested US$1.1 billion through the Foundation, impacting over 36,000 students directly. However, the Foundation’s ultimate aim is to nurture the next generation of leaders in the ideologies of symbiotic growth so that each of them may in turn aspire to affect a small change, creating a large multiplier effect. The impact of the Shiv Nadar Foundation institutions is today reflected in the aspirations of meritorious students who started their journeys from humble, geographically, remote backgrounds but are today pursuing their dreams in India as well as other countries.

In recognition of his pioneering role in business and philanthropy in India and across the globe, Nadar has received several honors and accolades, notable being the Padma Bhushan from the President of India in 2008.

Nadar is married to Kiran, an Asian Games medalist and internationally renowned bridge player. She is also one of the largest Indian Art collectors in the world.

The Trustees

Roshni Nadar Malhotra is the CEO of the $11.8 billion HCL Corporation and is responsible for providing strategic guidance to the organization. She is also the Chairperson of HCL Technologies, a leading global technology organization with a market capitalization of $40 billion, and the Chairperson of its CSR Board Committee.

Shiv Nadar is the Founder of HCL Enterprise, a $11.8 billion global organization with over 211,000 professionals operating from 52 countries. He is also the Chairman Emeritus & Strategic Advisor to the Board of HCL Technologies, a group company and India’s third largest IT services organization. Nadar is credited with being one of the pioneers of the computing and IT industry in India. Under his guidance HCL has continued to ride the waves of the changing IT landscape for over 45 years and remain at the forefront of every technological revolution since 1976. While HCL started off as a hardware organization, manufacturing the country’s first indigenous computers and introducing them to the Indian consumer, it eventually evolved into a more comprehensive software services organization. HCL is in fact one of the few global IT companies founded in the 1970s that remains in existence to date.

Roshni is a Trustee of the Shiv Nadar Foundation. Since its inception, the Shiv Nadar Foundation has invested $1.1 billion in nation building institutions and driving transformational leadership. Roshni is also the Chairperson and driving force behind VidyaGyan, a leadership academy for the economically underprivileged, meritorious, rural students of Uttar Pradesh, and has been working towards nurturing future leaders from rural India who can be catalysts of change for their communities, villages and the nation at large.

Passionate about wildlife and conservation, Roshni established The Habitats Trust in 2018. The Foundation aims to work towards protecting India’s natural habitats and its indigenous species with the core mission of creating and conserving sustainable ecosystems through strategic partnerships and collaborations with all stakeholders, at every level.

Roshni is a member of the Dean’s Advisory Council at the MIT School of Engineering, USA and also a member of the Kellogg School of Management Executive Board for Asia. She serves on the board of directors of US-India Strategic Partnership Forum (USISPF) and is an independent director on the board of HDFC Asset Management Company.

In recognition of her outstanding work both in business and in philanthropy, Roshni has received several honors and accolades. Some of these include being featured for the fifth consecutive year in ‘The World’s 100 Most Powerful Women’ list, compiled and released by Forbes in 2021. In 2020, Forbes also featured her among the ‘25 Most Powerful Businesswomen in Asia’. Roshni was conferred with Lewis Institute Community Changemaker Award by Babson College in 2017 and was recognized by Horasis, an internationally renowned think tank, as the ‘Indian Business Leader of the Year 2019. She is an alumnus of the Forum of Young Global Leaders (YGL, 2014-19), a unique and diverse community of the world’s most outstanding, next-generation leaders, an initiative of the World Economic Forum.

In 2018, Roshni produced a children’s film, ‘Halkaa’, Directed by the National Awardee Nila Madhab Panda. The movie is based on the unique journey of a slum child battling the issue of open defecation. Since 2019, she has also been producing a TV series for the Animal Planet/Discovery based on the most endangered species in India – ‘On The Brink’.

Roshni holds an undergraduate degree in Communications from Northwestern University and a MBA from the Kellogg School of Management. At Kellogg, she was awarded the Dean’s Distinguished Service Award.

Roshni holds an undergraduate degree in Communications from Northwestern University and a MBA from the Kellogg School of Management. At Kellogg, she was awarded the Dean’s Distinguished Service Award.

Ms. Roshni Nadar Malhotra

Board of Management

Mr. R . Srinivasan

Global Management
&
Business Leader

Mr. Shiv Nadar

Founder & Managing Trustee

Ms. Roshni Nadar Malhotra

Founder & Trustee

Ms. Kiran Nadar

Chairman

Prof. M.S. Ananth

Former Director

Mr. P. Siva Prasad

High Court Advocate

Dr. Kala Vijayakumar

President & SSN Institutions

The Trustees of SSN Trust

Mr. Shiv Nadar

Ms. Kiran Nadar

Mr. Shikhar Malhotra

Ms. Roshni Nadar Malhotra

Dr. Kala Vijayakumar

President

President

SSN Trust was founded in 1994 by Mr. Shiv Nadar and his elder brother (Late) Justice Pratap Singh, a Judge of the Madras High Court.

SSN Trust has established SSN Institutions. Both the trust and institutions are named after the Chairman’s father, Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar. Dr. Kala Vijayakumar is the president of the SSN Institutions.

SSN institutions consist of SSN School of Advanced Career Education (SSN SACE), The SSN School of Advanced Software Engineering (SSN SASE), The SSN College of Engineering (SSN CE), The SSN School of Management (SSN SOM) and The SSN Research Centre.

The institutions are run on a not-for-profit basis and aim to provide the highest quality educational and research facilities for meritorious students belonging to all economic strata.

Dr. Kala Vijayakumar

President