Dheeraj Hinduja

Dheeraj Gopichand Hinduja is a British-Indian businessman, the chairman of Ashok Leyland since October 2010.

Early life

Dheeraj Hinduja was born in Iran in August 1971, the son of Gopichand Hinduja. The Hinduja family is of Sindhi heritage.
He received a bachelor's degree from University College London in 1993, and an MBA from Imperial College London in 1994.

Personal life

He married Shalini Chandiramani, a fellow student at Imperial College, and the daughter of a Morocco-based film distributor, some time before 1996. As of 2005, they had two children, Vedika and Vedant.