K. Pandiarajan

K. Pandia Rajan
Born (1959-04-26) 26 April 1959[1]
Villampatti, Sivakasi,[1] India
Residence Chennai, India
Alma mater PSG College of Technology[2] (B.E.)
XLRI Jamshedpur[2] (MBA)
Occupation Businessman,Politician,Spokesperson
Political party AIADMK
Spouse(s) Hemalatha Rajan[3][4][5]

K. Pandia Rajan (born 26 April 1959)[1] is an Indian businessman and politician. He is the founder of Ma Foi Management Consultants Ltd, a human resource management company, and CIEL HR Services, another talent acquisition firm.[6][7] He contested in the 2011 Tamil Nadu legislative assembly election as a Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam (DMDK) candidate and won from his Virdhunagar constituency.[8][9]

Early life and education

K. Pandia Rajan was born on 26 April 1959 in a village near Sivakasi, Virudhunagar district.[1][10] When Pandia Rajan was three months old, he lost his father, a worker in a local match factory. He was brought up by his maternal grandparents.

He finished his schooling from the Sivakasi Hindu Nadar Victoria School, Sivakasi and in 1976,[2] joined PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore for an undergraduate course in Engineering. After earning his B.E (Hons.) degree, Pandia Rajan enrolled for an MBA program in Industrial Relations at Xavier Labour Relations Institute, Jamshedpur, which he completed in 1984.[2]

Career

After graduating from XLRI in 1984, he joined the Indian operations of an industrial gas multinational BOC Group and later Deutsche Babcock.[2][11] In 1992,[2][12] he co founded Ma Foi Management Consultants along with his wife, to tap into opportunities arising out of the 1991 economic liberalisation policy in India. The initial focus of Ma Foi was placing middle-level and managerial people overseas, especially in the Middle East.[13][14] In 2002, Ma Foi partnered with Vedior, a Dutch headhunter firm looking to expand their operations in West Asia and South-East Asia.[2] He sold majority of his stake in Ma Foi to Vedior in 2004.[15] In 2007, Dutch HR services firm Randstad acquired the operations of Ma Foi through its US$5.14 billion acquisition of Vedior. Pandiarajan became the Chairman of Randstad India.[16][17]

On 5 April 2012, he announced the launch of a new venture focusing on management consulting and education space - Ma Foi Strategic Consultants Pvt. Ltd, with investments of over INR 250 million in the first three years.[3] The new company had got into an agreement with Randstad for using the brand Ma Foi for three years.[4] Pandirajan, along with a few Ma Foi veterans, made his latest foray into the HR Services industry with the launch of CIEL HR Services in August 2015.[18][19][7] CIEL HR focuses on talent acquisition for companies and flex staffing using modern analytical tools.

Political career: 2000 - till date

Pandia Rajan joined the Bharatiya Janata Party in 2000, but later shifted to DMDK party founded by actor turned politician Vijaykanth.[20][21][22] He contested in the 2011 Tamil Nadu legislative assembly election and won from his Virdhunagar constituency with a margin of 21286.[3][4][9][20][23][24][25][26][27]After a brief political stint that began in 2009, rebel DMDK MLA Ma Foi Pandiarajan is getting back to his favourite vocation - human resource consultancy. he switched loyalties to AIADMK in 2013. And finally back in business, Pandiarajan has restarted his HR consultancy in Bengaluru with an investment of Rs 3 crore.Now he is in AIADMK Party,

Personal life

Pandia Rajan lives in Chennai with his wife, Hemalatha.[13] He has two children. His son's name is Suhaas Rajan and daughter's name is Sunila Rajan.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Thiru K. Pandiarajan Bio". hindustanpages.com. Retrieved 7 June 2012.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Cover Story : Ma Foi SUCCESS". maduraimessenger.org. Retrieved 7 June 2012. by Xavier Roderic Hoffman
  3. 1 2 3 "Ma Foi To Diversy Its Business Beyond Staffing Solutions In India". sulekha.com. 7 April 2012. Retrieved 7 June 2012. by Jayashankar Menon
  4. 1 2 3 "Ma Foi founders start afresh". The Hindu. 5 April 2012. Retrieved 7 June 2012.
  5. ↑ "LinkedIn - Latha Rajan". Retrieved 7 June 2012.
  6. ↑ "Mr. K Pandiarajan, President of Indian Staffing Federation". Retrieved 7 June 2012.
  7. 1 2 "CIEL HR Website". Retrieved 11 August 2015.
  8. ↑ "Pandiarajan K of DMDK WINS the Virudhunagar Constituency with 70104 votes". Retrieved 7 June 2012.
  9. 1 2 "Tamil Nadu Election Constituencies". Retrieved 7 June 2012.
  10. ↑ "Biography : K Pandiarajan". 12 March 2012. Retrieved 7 June 2012.
  11. ↑ "HR Conference 2011 - Speaker Bio K. Pandia Rajan". Retrieved 7 June 2012.
  12. ↑ "Competency Matrix as a tool for organisational development as a tool" (PDF). Retrieved 7 June 2012. by J. Mathangi, Birla Institute of Management Technology
  13. 1 2 "An amazing story: From Rs 60,000 to Rs 435 crore!". Rediff. 16 April 2008. Retrieved 7 June 2012.
  14. ↑ "How Pandia Rajan built from scratch the country's largest human resource consulting firm--Ma Foi". Economic Times. 25 May 2012. Retrieved 7 June 2012.
  15. ↑ "Vedior to use Ma Foi for Asian expansion". The Hindu. 10 July 2004. Retrieved 7 June 2012.
  16. ↑ "Creating value is more important than playing a valuation game". The Hindu. 12 March 2012. Retrieved 7 June 2012.
  17. ↑ "LinkedIn profile - Pandia Rajan". Retrieved 7 June 2012.
  18. ↑ "Ma Foi founder return, launch analytics based HR services company". The Hindu. Retrieved 6 August 2015.
  19. ↑ "K Pandia Rajan & Latha Rajan, founders of Ma Foi re-enter HR services business". Retrieved 6 August 2015.
  20. 1 2 "HR professional throws hat into poll ring". Sulekha News. Retrieved 7 June 2012.
  21. ↑ "MBA to MLA". financialexpress. Retrieved 7 June 2012.
  22. ↑ "Ma Foi founder contests election". Expressbuzz. Retrieved 7 June 2012.
  23. ↑ "HR czar, corporate innovator, now a Tamil Nadu MLA". Indian Express. Retrieved 7 June 2012.
  24. ↑ "The Hindu".
  25. ↑ "Times Of India".
  26. ↑ "India Today".
  27. ↑ "The Hindu".
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