Arun Firodia
Indian businessman
- H. K. Firodia (father)
Arun Firodia (born 1943) is an Indian businessman. He is the chairman of Kinetic Group,[1] India's leading manufacturers and exporters of two wheelers. Arun Firodia obtained his B.Tech with distinction in Electrical Engineering from IIT Bombay in 1965. He later went to US and obtained his M.S. in Electrical Engineering from MIT. He completed his M.S. in Management from Sloan School of Management.[2]
He was awarded the Padma Shri, fourth highest civilian award of India, in 2012.[3][4][5][6]
Personal life
Arun Firodia is the son of late Shri. H.K. Firodia, founder of Kinetic Engineering Limited, married to Dr Jayshree Firodia who is a renowned Pediatrician.[citation needed]They have one son Ajinkya Firodia and three daughters Sulajja Firodia Motwani, Vismaya Firodia and Kimaya Firodia.
References
- ^ "Arun Firodia:Founder of Kinetic Group of Companies". Archived from the original on 14 July 2010. Retrieved 13 August 2012.
- ^ "Our Founder: H. K. Firodia". Archived from the original on 7 August 2012. Retrieved 13 August 2012.
- ^ "Padma Shri Awardees". Retrieved 13 August 2012.
- ^ "Sancheti to be honoured with Padma Vibhushan". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 3 January 2013. Retrieved 13 August 2012.
- ^ "Four Punekars win Padma". Retrieved 13 August 2012.
- ^ "Republic Day: Muthuraman, Subbiah, Priya Paul among Padma awardees". The Times Of India. 25 January 2012. Retrieved 13 August 2012.
External links
- Arun Firodia Kinetic Groups's chairman profile
- Kinetic Honda – The Break-Up: Break-Up Blues
- Arun Firodia
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Recipients of Padma Shri in Trade & Industry
- Atma Ram (1959)
- Adinath Lahiri (1960)
- Vithalrao Vikhe Patil (1961)
- Verghese Kurien (1965)
- Ebrahim Alkazi (1966)
- A. Nagappa Chettiar (1967)
- Ved Rattan Mohan (1967)
- Khailshanker Durlabhji (1971)
- Udaybhansinhji Natwarsinhji Jethwa (1971)
- Devi Sahai Jindal (1971)
- Yelavarthy Nayudamma (1971)
- Prem Nath Sahni (1971)
- H. D. Shourie (1971)
- Mohanmullji Chordia (1972)
- Waman Dattatreya Patwardhan (1974)
- Jadunath Supakar (1985)
- Nelly Sethna (1985)
- Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw (1989)
- Lila Poonawalla (1989)
- B. V. Rao (1990)
- Vasantrao S. Dempo (1991)
- Ramesh Gelli (1991)
- Lalchand Hirachand (1992)
- K. M. Mammen Mappillai (1992)
- Meenakshi Sargogi (1992)
- Harshavardhan Neotia (1999)
- N. R. Narayana Murthy (2000)
- Kandathil Mammen Philip (2001)
- Kallam Anji Reddy (2001)
- Nalli Kuppuswami Chetti (2003)
- Sharayu Daftary (2004)
- Shahnaz Husain (2006)
- Suresh Krishna (2006)
- Rajinder Gupta (2007)
- Naina Lal Kidwai (2007)
- A. Sivasailam (2007)
- Amit Mitra (2008)
- R. K. Krishna Kumar (2009)
- B. R. Shetty (2009)
- T. N. Manoharan (2010)
- Kapil Mohan (2010)
- Karsanbhai Patel (2010)
- B. Ravi Pillai (2010)
- Deepak Puri (2010)
- AVS Raju (2010)
- Venu Srinivasan (2010)
- Irshad Mirza (2010)
- Mecca Rafeeque Ahmed (2011)
- Sat Pal Khattar (2011)
- Kailasam Raghavendra Rao (2011)
- Arun Firodia (2012)
- Priya Paul (2012)
- Gopinath Pillai (2012)
- Swati Piramal (2012)
- Shoji Shiba (2012)
- Hemendra Prasad Barooah (2013)
- Milind Kamble (2013)
- Vandana Luthra (2013)
- Rajshree Pathy (2013)
- Kalpana Saroj (2013)
- Ravi Kumar Narra (2014)
- Pratap Govindrao Pawar (2014)
- Rajesh Saraiya (2014)
- Mallika Srinivasan (2014)
- T. V. Mohandas Pai (2015)
- Ajaypal Singh Banga (2016)
- Keki Hormusji Gharda (2016)
- Dilip Shanghvi (2016)
- Mahesh Sharma (2016)
- Saurabh Srivastava (2016)
- Rameshwarlal Kabra (2018)
- Shantanu Narayen (2019)
- Jai Prakash Agarwal (2020)
- Sanjeev Bikhchandani (2020)
- Bharat Goenka (2020)
- Vijay Sankeshwar (2020)
- Romesh Wadhwani (2020)
- Prem Watsa (2020)
- Sridhar Vembu (2021)
- Prahlad Rai Agarwala (2022)
- Jagjit Singh Dardi (2022)
- Muktamani Devi (2022)
- Ryuko Hira (2022)
- Rakesh Jhunjhunwala (Posthumous) (2023)
- Areez Khambatta (Posthumous) (2023)
- Kumar Mangalam Birla (2023)
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