Rank #2656
Sekar Vembu
Net worth $1.5B
Business software · India
- Born
- Jan 01, 1972
- Age
- 54
- Source
- Business software
- Residence
- Chennai
- Citizenship
- India
- Marital status
- Children
- 0
- Education
- Bachelor of Technology, Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras)
Net worth over time
Biography
- Sekar Vembu get his wealth from his holding in privately held Zoho, which offers business software on the cloud.
- He cofounded AdventNet, the precursor to Zoho, along with his two brothers as well as three other friends.
- In 2002, he set up Vembu Technologies in Chennai, which offers data backup and disaster recovery solutions to small and medium firms.
- His brother Sridhar, who was the face of the company, stepped down as CEO in February 2025 taking on a role as a chief scientist for company
- His sister Radha Vembu is the largest shareholder in Zoho and also a billionaire.
- Zoho is setting up a new campus which an house 2,000 people in the tier 3 city of Kumbakkonam in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu
- Zoho is headquartered in Austin, Texas and Chennai, India.
- Younger brother Mani is now Zoho's CEO.