Padma Awardee Sridhar Vembu Bucks The Trend, Helps Craft World Class Software From Indiaâs Rural Reaches  Â
by Anand Parthasarathy - Jan 27, 2021 03:12 PM
Sridhar Vembu (Twitter)
Snapshot
Zoho tapped into the latent talent of rural and agricultural area as Vembu believed that talent in India is not the exclusive preserve of metros.
The only technocrat to be honoured in this yearâs Padma awards is Sridhar Vembu, founder and chief executive officer of the Chennai-headquartered Zoho Corporation, whose office productivity tools are taking on global brands like Salesforce and Microsoft in their own markets.
Vembuâs Padma Shri Award is a recognition, at last, of the quiet contribution that his company, almost a quarter century old, has made, to create a truly Indian brand in the fiercely competitive global market in office productivity software.