"We are committed to take Silicon Valley’s signature entrepreneurship to U.P."

January 2015 \ Interviews \ Indian Diaspora Interview—Dr Nandini Tandon

"We are committed to take Silicon Valley’s signature entrepreneurship to U.P."

Interview with Dr Nandini Tandon, Founding Partner and Group CEO of Tenacity Group Inc. Dr Nandini Tandon, Silicon Valley-based entrepreneur and venture capitalist and Founding Partner and Group CEO of Tenacity Group Inc, spoke to India Empire’s Editor Sayantan Chakravarty. Dr Tandon along with her mentor Dr.B. R.Shetty, Founding Partner and Chairman of Board for Tenacity Group Inc. and her sister, Ms Priya Tandon, Founding Partner CEO, Tenacity India Operations, are spearheading major investments in healthcare / healthcare IT and skill development space in Uttar Pradesh

By Sayantan Chakravarty

You are a Silicon Valley-based Investor in the life sciences and healthcare / healthcare IT space. At this point in time what related projects are you doing in India?

My mentor Dr.B.R.Shetty of Abu Dhabi, Priya my sister and myself are founding partners of Silicon Valley based Tenacity Group Inc., with Dr.Shetty as the Chairman of the Board, Priya heading India operations and myself as Group CEO. Tenacity is focusing on investments in the USA-UAE-India corridor. The 3 founding partners of Tenacity signed MoU with Hon. Akhilesh Yadav’s UP government focusing on Health, Health/IT and entrepreneurship/skill development, with investment of billion dollar plus in to UP, recently on December 21st. Hon.CM Akhilesh also inaugurated launch of Tenacity’s SVADESH “Silicon Valley and Avadh’s Development for Entrepreneurial Services for Humanity” while Hon. Mayor-elect of Oakland, Libby Schaaf, was beamed live in to Lucknow from California, using Silicon Valley’s technology of TeleVital.