Who Founded TVS Motor?

T. V. Sundram Iyengar (1877-1955) was a lawyer-turned-entrepreneur from Tamil Nadu who founded T.V. Sundram Iyengar & Sons in Madurai in 1911. He started with rural bus services and motor dealerships, building the transport and automotive business that grew into the TVS Group, the parent lineage of TVS Motor Company.

Thirukkurungudi Vengaram Sundram Iyengar was born on March 22, 1877 and died on April 28, 1955. He founded T. V. Sundram Iyengar and Sons in 1911 as a bus company, which later moved into automobiles and became the parent of the TVS Group. (Exact birth year remains publicly undisclosed).

Venu Srinivasan, grandson of T. V. Sundram Iyengar, led the TVS two-wheeler business for decades. He steered the Ind-Suzuki joint venture of the 1980s, the 2001 split from Suzuki, the launch of home-grown models such as the Victor and Apache, and the company's Total Quality Management push that won TVS Motor the Deming Application Prize in 2002. He is now Chairman Emeritus.

Venu Srinivasan was born in 1952 in Chennai. Education: University of Madras.

Srinivasan was born on December 11, 1952. He is chairman emeritus of TVS Motor Company, serves on the board of Tata Sons, and received the Padma Bhushan in January 2020.