Venu Srinivasan
Chairman Emeritus, TVS Motor Company
Has agreed to our request to chair the ISQ Awards Night on 9th December. He will give away the awards to the nominees of different awards.
Biography
Venu Srinivasan is the Chairman Emeritus of TVS Motor Company, one the leading manufacturers of two-wheelers in the world and Sundaram-Clayton Limited, a leading manufacturer of auto components in India. He was conferred the Padma Bhushan Award, the third Highest civilian award in India, in January 2020.
He has received a Doctor of Management by Purdue University and a Doctor of Science by University of Warwick in Coventry, UK and the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, India.
He became the managing director of Sundaram-Clayton in May 1979. He went on to become the chairman of TVS Motor Company. In the late 1980s, Srinivasan scripted a turnaround for the two-wheeler maker and implemented Total Quality Management. Srinivasan brought in Professor Yasutoshi Washio of Japan, a Deming Application Prize Winner and Japanese quality management guru Professor Yoshikazu Tsuda as mentors to strengthen the TQM processes within the company. Today, its facilities also make bikes for BMW Motorrad through a strategic partnership with the German firm.
He was the recipient of ISQ Jamsetji Tata Award in 2004 which is given to industry leaders who have made significant contribution to the Indian society through their work of leading on organization with exceptional and holistic focus on quality. Dr. Venu Srinivasan has been awarded the Deming Distinguished Service Award for Dissemination and Promotion of TQM.
Venu Srinivasan was elected as President of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) year 2009-10. Srinivasan was conferred the coveted Padma Shri Award by the President of India in 2010 for his contributions in the field of trade and industry. He is the "Goodwill Envoy for Culture and Diplomacy of the Republic of Korea". He was earlier the Honorary Consul General, Republic of Korea (in Chennai). In 2010, he was honoured by South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, with the civilian honour, Order of Diplomatic Service Merit, in recognition of his contribution to promoting bilateral relations between South Korea and India.
Asian Network for Quality (ANQ) chose Srinivasan as one of the winners for its Ishikawa-Kano Award for the year 2012, for his contribution to the theory and practice of quality management within TVS Motor Company.