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]

Family and education

Chatterjee has five siblings: Anjali Mukherjee (sister), Shibani Bhattacharya (sister), Kalyani Banerjee (sister), Subhasendu Chatterjee (brother), and Amalendu Chatterjee (brother).

He 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 1.28 trillion rupees in two petrochemicals projects in two Indian states: Tamil Nadu and Odisha.[8]

References
  1. "Private pitch for IT space in city". The Telegraph (India). Calcutta, India. 21 December 2003. 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". eurekalert.org. 3 October 2008. Retrieved 5 December 2010.
  4. "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. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on March 11, 2010. Retrieved June 4, 2010.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  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.
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