Purnendu Chatterjee
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Purnendu Chatterjee is an Indian entrepreneur. He is the founder and chairman of The Chatterjee Group (TCG){{Cite news|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1031221/asp/calcutta/story_2702822.asp|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120917163737/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1031221/asp/calcutta/story_2702822.asp|url-status=dead|archive-date=17 September 2012|title=Private pitch for IT space in city|newspaper=The Telegraph (India)|date=2003-12-21|access-date=2010-12-05|location=Calcutta, India}} and also serves as a member of the Governing Board of the Indian School of Business (ISB) in Hyderabad.{{Cite web|url=http://www.isb.edu/KnowISB/ExecutiveBoard.Shtml|title=List of ISB executive directors|publisher=Indian School of Business|access-date=2010-12-05}}
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.{{cite press release|url=http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-10/dbnl-bla100308.php|title=Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley announce India energy R&D program|publisher=eurekalert.org|date=2008-10-03|access-date=2010-12-05}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.businessweek.com/archives/1995/b340841.arc.htm|title=Passage To India, Compliments of George (int'l edition)|access-date=2010-12-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120408221117/http://www.businessweek.com/archives/1995/b340841.arc.htm|archive-date=8 April 2012|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}
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. Chatterjee established The Chatterjee Group (TCG) in 1986, which today has diversified interests which includes investment banking, real estate, petrochemicals and life sciences.{{cite news|url=http://www.financialexpress.com/news/story/133474/|title=TCG acquires Basell assets for $5.16 bn|newspaper=Financial Express|date=2005-05-06|access-date=2010-12-05}} With its headquarters in New York City,{{Cite web|url=http://www.bombaynews.net/story/614515|title=India is the place where the world has to invest: Purnendu Chatterjee|date=2010-03-21|publisher=bombaynews.net|access-date=2010-12-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111004235746/http://www.bombaynews.net/story/614515|archive-date=4 October 2011|url-status=dead}} TCG employs over 8000 people worldwide.{{cite web |url=http://www.tcgsoftwareinc.com/About%20TCG%20Group.php |title=TCG Software - TCG Group |access-date=2010-06-04 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100311073005/http://www.tcgsoftwareinc.com/About%20TCG%20Group.php |archive-date=11 March 2010 |df=mdy-all}}
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.{{cite news|url=https://www.business-standard.com/article/companies/tcg-in-talks-with-global-firms-for-odisha-and-tamil-nadu-mega-projects-120022300284_1.html|title=TCG in talks with global firms for Odisha and Tamil Nadu mega projects|first=Avishek|last=Rakshit|date=December 24, 2019|access-date=February 24, 2020|publisher=Business Standard}}
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.
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Category:Businesspeople from Hyderabad, India