Career
Born in North Paravur in Kerala, he majored in mathematics at Madras University and went to Harvard Business School. He began his career as a Systems Manager with International Business Machines Corporation in India. When International Business Machines Corporation closed down in India in 1978, he moved to Singapore where he joined the Chandaria Group.
As an employee of Chandaria Group, he set up Multi Technical Systems, which merged with Venture Manufacturing Singapore Limited in 1989.
Venture Manufacturing is one of the largest electronics manufacturing companies in the world. Menon continued to be the Chairman of Venture Corporation until his death.
After becoming a successful entrepreneur, he first came to Kerala with a proposal to set up a Rs 6,000-crore petrochemical complex at Kasaragod, which did not take official Subsequently, he set up the two Technopark companies namely United States Software and Toonz Animation.
Other companies, he was involved in India, were Dexcel Electronic Designs, Bangalore and Customer Lincolnshire, Kochi.
The company was a manufacturer of the suspension assembly, an extremely high-precision component used in the read/write heads of computer hard disk drives.
