Bharat Goenka | |
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Born | Bharat Goenka |
Nationality | Indian |
Occupation | Indian businessman |
Board member of | Tally Solutions |
Awards |
Bharat Goenka is an Indian businessman and the co-founder and managing director of Tally Solutions. In 2020, he received the Padma Shri from the Government of India for his contribution in the field of trade and industry. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]
Goenka is the son of Shyam Sunder Goenka, and is an alumnus of the Bishop Cotton Boys' School. A graduate in mathematics, [7] Goenka co-founded Tally Solutions with his father in 1986 after searching for a software to manage their accounting books. He created an MS-DOS based accounting application named Peutronics Financial Accountant, formally changed to Tally Solutions in 1999. [8]
In 2011, NASSCOM conferred their Lifetime Achievement Award to Goenka and the title of "the father of the Indian software product industry". [9] He was given the CSI Honorary Fellowship Award by the Computer Society of India (CSI) in 2014. [10] In 2020, he received the Padma Shri honour from the Government of India for his contribution in the field of trade and industry. [5]
Goenka delivered the 16th Lecture organised by the General K.S. Thimayya Memorial Trust. [11]