CHENNAI: The TiECON Chennai 2009, a flagship annual event and Tamil Nadu’s largest entrepreneur conclave, on Friday conferred upon N Srinivasan, Vice-Chairman and Managing Director of India Cements Limited, the Life Time Achievement Entrepreneur Award 2009 for his contribution towards making his company as the third largest cement producer in the country with a turn over of Rs 3500 crore.
The award also recognised Srinivasan’s business acumen in making Chennai Super Kings a big business proposition in the world of cricket.
In his acceptance speech, Srinivasan said that entrepreneurial skill could be easily developed with the creation of incubation centres on the campuses of IITs, besides stepping up the interface between universities and industries The occasion also saw the presentation of awards in various categories to other eminent entrepreneurs - Distinguished Family Entrepreneur Award on M V Subbiah of Murugappa Group; Entrepreneur of the Year Award on Sun TV Network Chairman Kalanidhi Maran; Next Gen Entrepreneur Award on Ravi Appaswamy, Chairman, Appaswamy Builders; Social Entrepreneur Award on M B Nirmal, Founder, Exnora International; Start-Up Entrepreneur Award on P N Vasudevan, Promoter, Equitas Microfinance; Women Entrepreneur Award on Kami Narayan of PreMedia Global Private Limited and Extreme Entrepreneur Award on Sathish Babu, CEO, UniverCell.
Gopal Srinivasan, Chairman and MD, TVS Capital Funds Limited, acted as the moderator of the programme.