Deepak Puri

Deepak Puri
Deepak Puri
Education	Mechanical engineering - Imperial College London
Occupation	Chairman, Moser Baer
Spouse(s)	NIta Puri
Children	Ratul Puri
Website	Profile at Moser Baer website

Deepak Puri is the founder, Chairman and Managing Director of Moser Baer, which was liquidated in 2018 due to insolvency.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]

Puri initially worked as junior executive with the oil company ESSO - in 1962 at Kolkata, and later with Shalimar Paints. In 1964, Puri floated his first company, Metal Industries in Calcutta, trading in aluminum wires and furniture. Two years later, he moved into manufacturing as well. Due to labour issues at Calcutta, he decided to migrate to New Delhi in 1983, where he started Moser Baer India joint venture with Switzerland-based Moser Baer.^[6]

Education[]

Puri holds from Imperial College, London, and completed his education from St. Stephen's College and Modern School, New Delhi. He was also conferred the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy (D.Phil), Honoris Causa in recognition to his exemplary efforts by the Amity University.

Award[]

Padma Shri award for his contribution to the growth of Indian industry in January 2010.^[7]
‘the Electronics Man of the Year 2002’ recognition from ELCINA.
‘the IT Man of the Year’ by top IT publication Dataquest.
‘the Entrepreneur of the Year’ award.
‘Innovator of the year’ by CNBC-TV18 for the year 2009.

References[]

^ "Moser Baer (India) - Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process (CIRP)-Liquidation - Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process (CIRP) - Currency Research Reports". www.moneycontrol.com. Retrieved 9 April 2019.
^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 2 August 2009.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^ "Pangea Capital to invest $30M In Deepak Puri's Cobol Technologies". Reuters. 30 April 2009. Retrieved 23 October 2018.
^ "Moser Baer to invest $250 m". The Hindu. 6 March 2007. Retrieved 23 October 2018.
^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 13 July 2012. Retrieved 2 August 2009.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^ "Bull Run for Baer". Business today. Retrieved 14 November 2014.
^ "Padma Awards" (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 November 2014. Retrieved 21 July 2015.

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[1] "Moser Baer (India) - Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process (CIRP)-Liquidation - Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process (CIRP) - Currency Research Reports". www.moneycontrol.com. Retrieved 9 April 2019.

[2] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 2 August 2009.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[3] "Pangea Capital to invest $30M In Deepak Puri's Cobol Technologies". Reuters. 30 April 2009. Retrieved 23 October 2018.

[4] "Moser Baer to invest $250 m". The Hindu. 6 March 2007. Retrieved 23 October 2018.

[5] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 13 July 2012. Retrieved 2 August 2009.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[6] "Bull Run for Baer". Business today. Retrieved 14 November 2014.

[Padma_Awards-7] "Padma Awards" (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 November 2014. Retrieved 21 July 2015.

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v t Recipients of Padma Shri in Trade & Industry
1950s	Atma Ram (1959)
1960s	Adinath Lahiri (1960) Vithalrao Vikhe Patil (1961) Verghese Kurien (1965) Ebrahim Alkazi (1966) A. Nagappa Chettiar (1967) Ved Rattan Mohan (1967)
1970s	Khailshanker Durlabhji (1971) Udaybhansinhji Natwarsinhji Jethwa (1971) Devi Sahai Jindal (1971) Yelavarthy Nayudamma (1971) Prem Nath Sahni (1971) H. D. Shourie (1971) Mohanmullji Chordia (1972) Waman Dattatreya Patwardhan (1974)
1980s	Jadunath Supakar (1985) Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw (1989) Lila Poonawalla (1989)
1990s	B. V. Rao (1990) Vasantrao S. Dempo (1991) Ramesh Gelli (1991) Lalchand Hirachand (1992) K. M. Mammen Mappillai (1992) Meenakshi Sargogi (1992) Harshavardhan Neotia (1999)
2000s	N. R. Narayana Murthy (2000) Kandathil Mammen Philip (2001) Kallam Anji Reddy (2001) Nalli Kuppuswami Chetti (2003) Sharayu Daftary (2004) Shahnaz Husain (2006) Suresh Krishna (2006) Rajinder Gupta (2007) Naina Lal Kidwai (2007) A. Sivasailam (2007) Amit Mitra (2008) R. K. Krishna Kumar (2009) B. R. Shetty (2009)
2010s	T. N. Manoharan (2010) Kapil Mohan (2010) Karsanbhai Patel (2010) B. Ravi Pillai (2010) Deepak Puri (2010) AVS Raju (2010) Venu Srinivasan (2010) Mecca Rafeeque Ahmed (2011) Sat Pal Khattar (2011) Kailasam Raghavendra Rao (2011) Arun Firodia (2012) Priya Paul (2012) Gopinath Pillai (2012) Swati Piramal (2012) Shoji Shiba (2012) Hemendra Prasad Barooah (2013) Milind Kamble (2013) Vandana Luthra (2013) Rajshree Pathy (2013) Kalpana Saroj (2013) Ravi Kumar Narra (2014) Pratap Govindrao Pawar (2014) Rajesh Saraiya (2014) Mallika Srinivasan (2014) T. V. Mohandas Pai (2015) Ajaypal Singh Banga (2016) Keki Hormusji Gharda (2016) Dilip Shanghvi (2016) Mahesh Sharma (2016) Saurabh Srivastava (2016) Rameshwarlal Kabra (2018) Shantanu Narayen (2019)
2020s	Jai Prakash Agarwal (2020) Sanjeev Bikhchandani (2020) Bharat Goenka (2020) Vijay Sankeshwar (2020) Romesh Wadhwani (2020) Prem Watsa (2020) Sridhar Vembu (2021)