Lakshmi Venu, daughter of prominent industrialists Venu Srinivasan, Chairman, TVS Motor Company, and Mallika Srinivasan, Chairman, TAFE, tied the knot on Friday with Mahesh Gogineni, at a private function in Jodhpur, a statement said.

The marriage was attended by close friends and family.

Lakshmi Venu is the granddaughter of TS Srinivasan (TVS) and A Sivasailam (The Amalgamations Group).

Mahesh Gogineni is the great-grandson of Padma Vibhushan NG Ranga, who was an illustrious parliamentarian and President of the Swatantra Party, and the son of Suguna and Kamalendra Gogineni.

A graduate of BITS Pilani and London School of Economics, and an MBA from Stanford, Mahesh Gogineni, bitten by the entrepreneurial bug, returned to India. A tech entrepreneur, he made a successful exit from his first start-up, and is currently pursuing his second, Gifskey.

Lakshmi is the Managing Director of Sundaram Clayton Limited and Director of TAFE Motors and Tractors Limited. She holds a Doctorate from the University of Warwick and is a graduate in Economics from Yale University. She is credited with Sundaram Clayton’s entry into the USA with a greenfield factory in Charleston, South Carolina, to manufacture high-pressure die-cast and gravity cast parts.

The marriage was solemnised in typical South Indian tradition with Lakshmi’s family hailing from Tamil Nadu and Mahesh’s family from Andhra Pradesh.

Published on March 9, 2018