Lakshmi Venu is an Indian businesseswoman and the managing director of Sundaram-Clayton and Vice Chairman of

TAFE Technical and further education or simply TAFE () is the common name in Australia for vocational education, as a subset of tertiary education. TAFE institutions provide a wide range of predominantly vocational courses. Colloquially also known ...

. She is an heiress to the

Chennai Chennai, also known as Madras (List of renamed places in India#Tamil Nadu, its official name until 1996), is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Tamil Nadu by population, largest city of Tamil Nadu, the southernmost states and ...

-based conglomerate

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, which was established by her great-grandfather T. V. Sundaram Iyengar.

Background and education

Lakshmi is the daughter of Venu Srinivasan and

Mallika Srinivasan Mallika Srinivasan (born 19 November 1959) is an Indian industrialist and is the chairman and managing director of Tractors and Farm Equipment Limited, a tractor major incorporated in 1960 at Chennai, India. She served as Chairperson of the Pub ...

. Both of Lakshmi's parents run separate business empires which they inherited from their respective fathers. Venu Srinivasan runs the

(Sundaram-Clayton Group) founded by his grandfather T. V. Sundaram Iyengar, while Mallika Srinivasan runs the TAFE Group companies (of the Amalgamations Group) inherited from her father, A. Sivasailam. Lakshmi has one brother, Sudarshan Venu. She grew up in

and studied at Sishya School in Adyar. She did her degree in economics from

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and then her Doctorate in Engineering Management from

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Career

Lakshmi was appointed Joint managing director in Sundaram Clayton at a young age.

Personal life

In 2011, she married

Rohan Murty Rohan Narayana Murty is a junior fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows, founder of the Murty Classical Library of India and founder and chief technical officer of the digital transformation company Soroco, which specialises in automation ...

, son of Infosys founder N. R. Narayana Murthy and Sudha Murthy. They divorced in 2015. In March 2018, it was announced that Lakshmi had married Mahesh Gogineni in a private ceremony held in

Jodhpur Jodhpur () is the second-largest city of the north-western Indian state of Rajasthan, after its capital Jaipur. As of 2023, the city has a population of 1.83 million. It serves as the administrative headquarters of the Jodhpur district and ...

. Mahesh Gogineni, is the grandson of N. G. Ranga. He is a first-generation entrepreneur who runs a tech start-up.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Venu, Lakshmi 1983 births Indian women chief executives Indian chief executives Living people Businesspeople from Chennai Automotive industry in India People in the automobile industry Businesswomen from Tamil Nadu TVS Group TVS family Alumni of the University of Warwick