Sirjang Tandon

Dr. Tandon currently serves on the board of Enmotus Inc. He founded the Tandon Corporation in 1975, where he invented and patented the first double sided floppy disk drive. This was one of the key factors in the acceptance of the Personal Computer. Tandon disk drives were used in the first IBM Personal computer launched in 1978. At Tandon Corporation, he set up the first hard disk drive manufacturing plant in Singapore, creating an Industry hub for technology manufacturing in Singapore.

Tandon Corporation was later merged with the chip controller company Western Digital (NYSE WDC) which continues to be a leader in the Disk Drive Industry. Dr. Tandon also founded Celetronix International which was the largest electronic manufacturing service provider in India and Southeast Asia. Celetronix was acquired by Jabil Circuits (NYSE JBL) in January of 2006. Prior to 1975, Dr. Tandon had worked at IBM, Memorex and Pertec. For his achievements in technology and business, he has been awarded an honorary doctorate degree from Howard University.