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Sirjang Lal Tandon also known as "Jugi" Tandon, was born in Indiac. 1942.[1] He is chairman and CEO of Celetronix, Inc.[2] He is known for leading his company,Tandon Corporation (originally Tandon Magnetics) in the disk drive industry, creating what became the industry-standard double-sided floppy drivedisk read-and-write heads.
Tandon grew up inPunjab,India.[3] In 1960, he moved to the United States with $3,000, earning a BS atHoward University, master's degree inmechanical engineering atKansas State University and an MBA at theUniversity of Santa Clara.
He worked as an engineer from 1970 to mid 1975 atIBM andMemorex. In late 1975, he left IBM forPertec Inc. in Chatsworth, but left that same year to start Tandon Magnetics in his Chatsworth garage with $7,000.[2][1]
Tandon invented the double-sidedfloppy drive used by IBM in theIBM PC and worked asOEM manufacturer forXerox,Tandem Computers andPrime Computer. In late 1982, Tandon was #1 in the disk-drive industry, and his company was namedForbes magazine's "Up and Comer of the Year". The $150-million value of his stock placed "Jugi", at age 41, on the Forbes list of the 400 richest Americans. With this wealth, he built a 30-room home on 20 acres in Chatsworth.
In 1996[dubious –discuss], Sirjang createdJT Storage (Jugi Tandon Storage), back in Chatsworth, CA.