Chandrika Tandon

Chandrika Tandon (née Krishnamurthy) is an Indian American businesswoman and Grammy-nominated artist. She is chairperson of Tandon Capital Associates, and a member of the board of directors at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and the Berklee Presidential Advisory Council of the Berklee College of Music. Tandon is also the vice-chairman of the board of trustees at New York University (NYU), chair of the President's Global Council, and chair of the board of the Tandon School of Engineering, which she bought the naming rights to in 2014 for $100 Million. She also serves on the boards of the NYU Stern School of Business and the NYU Langone Health System. Tandon is the recipient of the Albert Gallatin Medal, the Walter Nichols Medal, and the Polytechnic Medal. She has released four music albums, earning a Grammy nomination for Soul Call. She is a speaker at World Hindu Congress 2018.