Lakshmi Venu tied the knot with tech businessman Mahesh
Gogineni, who is from a prominent Andhra family, at a destination wedding in
Jodhpur Thursday.
Dr. Lakshmi Venu, daughter of prominent industrialists Venu
Srinivasan, Chairman, TVS Motor Company, and Mallika Srinivasan, Chairman,
TAFE, and granddaughter of TS Srinivasan (TVS) and A Sivasailam (The
Amalgamations Group), tied the knot Thursday with Mahesh Gogineni at a private
function at Jodhpur. The marriage was attended by close friends and family.
Mahesh Gogineni is the great grandson of illustrious parliamentarian, President
of the Swatantra Party, and Padma Vibhushan awardee, N G Ranga; and the son of
Suguna and Dr. Kamalendra Gogineni. A graduate of BITS Pilani and London School
of Economics, and an MBA from Stanford, Mahesh Gogineni bitten by the entrepreneurial
bug, returned to India.
A tech entrepreneur, he made a successful exit from his
first startup, and is currently pursuing his second startup Gifskey. Dr. Lakshmi Venu is the Managing Director of
Sundaram Clayton Limited (SCL) and Director of TAFE Motors and Tractors Limited
(TMTL). She holds a doctorate from the University of Warwick and is a graduate
in Economics from Yale University.
She spearheads Sundaram Clayton which has global auto majors
including Cummins, Volvo, Hyundai, Daimler and Paccar as its customers. She is
credited with SCL’s foray into the USA with the setting up of a Greenfield
factory in Charleston, South Carolina, USA to manufacture high pressure
die-cast and gravity cast parts. The
marriage was celebrated in typical South Indian tradition with Lakshmi’s family
hailing from Tamil Nadu and Mahesh’s family from Andhra Pradesh.
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