Sundaram Clayton MD Lakshmi Venu weds Bengaluru based tech entrepreneur Mahesh Gogineni

CHENNAI: Dr. Lakshmi Venu, daughter of prominent industrialists Venu Srinivasan, Chairman - TVS Motor Company, and Mallika Srinivasan, Chairman - TAFE, tied the knot today with Mahesh Gogineni at a private function at Jodhpur.
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.
Mahesh Gogineni is the great grandson of the late veteran parliamentarian NG Ranga, who served as President of the Swatantra Party. A graduate of BITS Pilani and London School of Economics, and an MBA from Stanford, Mahesh is a tech entrepreneur. He recently made a successful exit from his first startup, and is currently pursuing his second startup Gifskey.