Purnendu Chatterjee is an Indian entrepreneur. He is the founder and chairman of The Chatterjee Group (TCG)[1] and also serves as a member of the Governing Board of the Indian School of Business (ISB) in Hyderabad.[2]
Chatterjee graduated from IIT, Kharagpur in 1971 later completed his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in engineering and Operations Research from the University of California, Berkeley in 1972 and 1974.[3][4]
Chatterjee was a research associate at the Stanford Research Institute from 1974 to 1976. He joined McKinsey & Co. in 1976 and by 1984 was promoted to a partner of the company.[4] Chatterjee established The Chatterjee Group (TCG) in 1986, which today has diversified interests which includes investment banking, real estate, petrochemicals and life sciences.[5] With its headquarters in New York City,[6][4] TCG employs over 8000 people worldwide.[7]
The Chatterjee Group is planning investments of 16 billion dollars in two petrochemicals projects in two Indian states: Tamil Nadu and Odisha.[8]
The group consist of Haldia Petrochemicals, LabVantage, Lummus Digital, Lummus Technology, Garden Vareli, Fitek, TCG Real Estate, TCG Lifesciences, MCPI, TCG CREST and many more.
