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Adi Godrej

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Adi Burjorji Godrej

Indian industrialist and head of the Godrej family.

Introduction:

  • Adi Godrej – born 3 April 1942.
  • He is chairman of the Godrej Group.
  • As of 2012, he is one of the richest Indians with a net worth of US$9 billion.
  • He is The Chairman of Godrej Group & Chairman of Indian School of Business.

Education:

  • He received his undergraduate degree from MIT.
  • He completed his MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management.
  • He was a member of the Pi Lambda Phi fraternity & a member of Tau Beta Pi.

Industry Profile:

  • He modernized and systematized management structures and implemented process improvements.
  • Adi Godrej took the Godrej Groupto great height during the License Raj.
  • Under Adi Godrej’s leadership, the group is also involved in philanthropic activities.
  • Godrej is major supporter of the World Wildlife Fund in India.
  • They developed a green business campus in the Vikhroli township of Mumbai, which includes a 150-acre (0.61 km2) mangrove forest and a school for the children of company employees.

Awards & achievements: 

  • He is the chairman of the Indian School of Business since April 2011.
  • He was elected as the president of Confederation of Indian Industry(CII) for the year 2012-13.
  • In April 2013 Godrej was awarded the Entrepreneur of the Year Award at The Asian Awards.
  • He was awarded the Padma Bhushan, India’s third highest civilian award, in 2013.
  • He was awarded the prestigious Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award in February 2013.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

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Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam

Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, is an Indian scientist and administrator who served as the 11th President of India from 2002 to 2007.

Introduction:

  • A. P. J. Abdul Kalam was born on 15 October 1931 in a Tamil Muslim family to Jainulabdeen, a boat owner and Ashiamma, a housewife, at Rameswaram, located in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
  •  Kalam is popularly known as the Missile Man of India for his work on the development of ballistic missile and launch vehicle technology.
  • Before his term as President, he worked as an aerospace engineer with Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).
  • He is the  11th President of India from year 2002 to 2007.

Education:

  • He completed his school education at the Rameshwaram Elementary School.
  • He went on to attend Saint Joseph’s College, Tiruchirappalli, then affiliated with the University of Madras, from where he graduated in physics in 1954.
  • He then moved to Madras in 1955 to study aerospace engineering.

Industry Profile:

  • He worked as an aerospace engineer with Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO).
  • He worked as an aerospace engineer with Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).
  • He was elected the President of India in 2002.
  • He is currently a visiting professor at Indian Institute of Management Shillong, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad and Indian Institute of Management Indore.
  • He is also the chancellor of the Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology Thiruvananthapuram.

Awards:

Year of award or honour Name of award or honour Awarding organisation
2012 Doctor of Laws (Honoris Causa) Simon Fraser University
2011 IEEE Honorary Membership IEEE
2010 Doctor of Engineering University of Waterloo
2009 HONORARY DOCTORATE Oakland University 
2009 Hoover Medal ASME Foundation, USA 
2009 International von Kármán Wings Award California Institute of Technology, U.S.A
2008 Doctor of Engineering (Honoris Causa) Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
2007 King Charles II Medal Royal Society, U.K.
2007 Honorary Doctorate of Science University of Wolverhampton, U.K
2000 Ramanujan Award Alwars Research Centre, Chennai
1998 Veer Savarkar Award Government of India
1997 Indira Gandhi Award for National Integration Indian National Congress
1997 Bharat Ratna Government of India
1990 Padma Vibhushan Government of India
1981 Padma Bhushan Government of India

Indra Nooyi

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Indra Krishnamurthy Nooyi

An Indian-American business executive and the current Chairperson and Chief Executive Officer of PepsiCo.

Introduction:

  •  An Indian-American business executive and the current Chairperson and Chief Executive Officer of PepsiCo.
  • The second largest food and beverage business in the world by net revenue.
  • Current citizenship status : United States.
  • She is born on 28 October, 1955 in Madras (presently Chennai), Tamil Nadu, India.
  • According to Forbes, she is consistently ranked among the World’s 100 Most Powerful Women.
  • In 2013, she has been ranked 10th in the list of Forbes World’s 100 most powerful women.

Education:

  • Indra Nooyi was educated at Holy Angels Anglo Indian Higher Secondary School in Madras.
  • She received a Bachelor’s degree in Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics from Madras Christian College in 1974.
  • She completed her  Post Graduate Diploma in Management (MBA) from Indian Institute of Management Calcutta in 1976.
  • She joined to Yale School of Management in 1978 and earned a Master’s degree in Public and Private Management.
  • At Yale, she completed her summer internship with Booz Allen Hamilton.

Industry Profile:

  • Beginning her career in India, Nooyi held product manager positions at Johnson & Johnson and textile firm Mettur Beardsell.
  • After Graduating in 1980, Nooyi joined the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), and then held strategy positions at Motorola and Asea Brown Boveri.
  • Nooyi joined PepsiCo in 1994 and was named president and CFO in 2001.
  •  In 2006 she became the fifth CEO in PepsiCo’s 44-year history.

Awards & honours :

  • Forbes magazine ranked Nooyi fourth on the 2008 and 2009 list of The World’s 100 Most Powerful Women.
  • Fortune magazine has named Nooyi number one on its annual ranking of Most Powerful Women in business for 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010.
  • In 2008, Nooyi was named one of America’s Best Leaders by U.S. News & World Report.
  • In 2008, she was elected to the Fellowship of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
  • In January 2008, Nooyi was elected Chairwoman of the US-India Business Council (USIBC).
  • Nooyi has been named 2009 CEO of the Year by Global Supply Chain Leaders Group.
  • In 2009, Nooyi was considered one of “The TopGun CEOs” by Brendan Wood International, an advisory agency.
  • In 2010 she was named #1 on Fortune‘s list of the “50 Most Powerful Women” and #6 on Forbes’ list of the “World’s 100 Most Powerful Women”.
  • Nooyi was named to Institutional Investor’s Best CEOs list in the All-America Executive Team Survey in 2008 to 2011.
  • Year Name Awarding organization
    2013 Honorary Degree North Carolina State University.
    2011 Honorary Doctor of Laws Wake Forest University.
    2011 Honorary Doctor of Laws University of Warwick.
    2011 Honorary Doctorate of Law Miami University.
    2010 Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters Pennsylvania State University.
    2009 Honorary Degree Duke University.
    2009 Barnard Medal of Honor Barnard College.
    2008 Honorary Degree New York University.
    2007 Padma Bhushan President of India.
    2004 Honorary Doctor of Laws Babson College.

Arun Netravali

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Arun N. Netravali

An Indian-American computer engineer.

Introduction:

  • Arun Netravali born on 26 May 1946 in Mumbai, India.
  • He is an Indian-American computer engineer who has contribution in digital technology includingHDTV.
  • He conducted seminal research in digital compression, signal processing and other fields.

Education:

  • He received his undergraduate degree from the IIT Bombay, India.
  • An M.S. and a Ph.D. from Rice University in Houston, Texas all in electrical engineering.

Industry Profile:

  • Netravali was the last President of Bell Laboratories .
  • Chief Scientist for Lucent Technologies before they went bankrupt.

Awards:

  • The IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal in 2001 (together with Thomas S. Huang)
  • The IEEE Frederik Philips Award in 2001
  • The U.S. National Medal of Technology
  • The Padma Bhushan from the Government of India
  • The IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal in 1991 (together with C. Chapin Cutler and John O. Limb)
  • Elected to member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1989
  • Elected to IEEE Fellow in 1985
  • The IEEE Donald G. Fink Prize Paper Award in 1982 (together with John O. Limb)

Sundar Pichai

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Sundar Pichai

P Sundarajan, better known as Sundar Pichai is the CEO of Google.

Introduction:

  • Sundar Pichai was born in 1972 in Chennai.
  • He  earlier servied as Senior Vice President at Google, where he oversaw Android, Chrome and Google Apps.
  • “Pichai was the brightest of his batch & stood first in the department & went on to get the silver medal”, Says IIT Professor Sanat Kumar Roy.

Education:

  •  He received his Bachelors in Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur and was awarded an Institute Silver Medal.
  • He holds an M.S. from Stanford University.
  • An MBA degree holder from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he was named a Siebel Scholar.

Industry Profile:

  • He worked in Applied Materials & McKinsey Co.
  • Sundar Pichai joined Google in 2004.
  • Sundar Pichai  is responsible for the development of the Google browser as the company’s Senior Vice President of product development.
  • On May 20, 2010, he announced the open-sourcing of the new video codec VP8 by Google, and introduced the new video format WebM.
  • He has been a director at Jive Software since April 2011.
  • In 2011, Pichai’s product innovation skills caught Twitter’s attention. But, Google reportedly paid $50 million to keep him back.
  • On 13th March, 2013 Google CEO Larry Page Handed over android development to  Sundar Pichai.

Personal Life:

  • He is married & has two daughters.

Vijay Mallya

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Vijay Mallya

Chairman of the UB Group – an Indian conglomerate

Introduction:

  • Vijay Mallya born on 18 December 1955 in Bantwal, Dakshina Kannada, Karnataka.
  • He is an Indian industrialist and a second-time member of India’s parliament.
  • He has a diverse interests in brewing, distilling, pharmaceuticals, real estate, engineering,fertilizers, biotechnology and information technology.
  • He is the son of industrialist Vittal Mallya. He took over as the chairman of the company at the age of 28 after his father’s sudden demise in 1983.

Education:

  • He attended La Martiniere for Boys school in Kolkata (West Bengal), where he was appointed House Captain (Hastings house) in his final year.
  • He went up to St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata, from which he graduated with a Bachelors of Commerce degree.
  • After the graduation, he interned at the American part of Hoechst in the United States.

Industry profile:  

UB group (United Breweries Group)

  • Vijay Mallya was unanimously elected Chairman of United Breweries.
  • He consolidated the various companies under one umbrella group called the “UB Group”.
  • Kingfisher beer controls more than 50 per cent market share of India’s beer market.
  • The beer is available in 52 countries outside India and leads the way among Indian beers in the international market.
  •  United Spirits Ltd., the flagship of the UB Group, has achieved the historic milestone of selling 145 million cases, becoming the largest spirits company in the world by volume.

Kingfisher Airlines

  • Kingfisher Airlines was established in 2003. It is owned by the Bengaluru based United Breweries Group.
  •  Kingfisher Airlines, through its parent company United Breweries Group, has a 50% stake in low-cost carrier Kingfisher Red.
  • Until December 2011, Kingfisher Airlines had the second largest share in India’s domestic air travel market.
  • The airline had shut down its operations when on 20 October 2012 the DGCA suspended its flying license.
  •  In February 2013 the Indian government announced the withdrawal of both domestic and international flight entitlements allocated to the airline.

Sahara Force India F1 Team

  • Vijay Mallya formed Sahara Force India Formula One Team on October 2007.
  • It is a Formula One racing team based in Silverstone, United Kingdom which currently holds an Indian licence.
  • Force India F1 represents increased Indian participation within Formula One, with Greater Noida having hosted the first Indian Grand Prix in 2011.
  • Force India won their first Formula One world championship points and podium place when Giancarlo Fisichella finished second in the 2009 Belgian Grand Prix, Force India scored points again in the following race when Adrian Sutil finished fourth, and set the team’s first fastest lap, at the Italian Grand Prix. Its best championship result was 6th in 2011.

IPL Team : Royal challengers Bangalore

  • The IPL Team : Royal challengers Bangalore is owned by Vijay Mallya, through his flagship firm UB Group.
  • Royal Challengers Bangalore is a cricket team based in Bangalore, Karnataka that plays in the Indian Premier League.
  • The director of the team is Sidhartha Mallya.
  • RCB plays its home matches at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium.
  •  The franchise has been one of the most successful and consistent in the IPL having reached the semis/play-off’s every season apart from 2008,2012 and 2013.
  • They hold the joint record for most consecutive victories in the IPL having won 7 matches on the trot in the 2011 edition. The team has also qualified and played in all the seasons of the Champions League Twenty20 tournament.

Politics:

  • Mallya was elected to the Rajya Sabha – Upper House of India’s Federal parliament in both 2002 and 2010 as an independent candidate from his home state of Karnataka.

Ancient Auction Purchases:

  • In 2004, he bought the sword of Tipu Sultan at an auction in London, and brought it back to India.
  • In March 2009, Mallya bought five personal belongings of Mahatma Gandhi (his iconic eyeglasses, a pocket watch, leather sandals he had made by hand, and a plate and bowl from which he had eaten his last meal) for US$1.8 million in a New York auction that had caused an uproar in India; the government of India had tried and failed to prevent the sale.

Awards:

  •  Vijay Mallya was conferred an honorary degree of Doctorate of Philosophy in Business Administration, by the Southern California University for Professional Studies of Santa Ana, California.
  •  In 2010 he was awarded the Entrepreneur of the Year award at The Asian Awards.
  • He has also been a “Global Leader for Tomorrow” by the World Economic Forum.

 

Satya Nadella

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Satya Nadella

The CEO of Microsoft

  • Satya Nadella (born 1969), is the CEO of Microsoft.
  • He is responsible for building and running the company’s computing platforms, developer tools and cloud services.

Education:

  • He is a student of the Hyderabad Public School, Begumpet.
  • He holds a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
  • He also holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of Chicago .
  • Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communication from the Manipal Institute of Technology.

Industry Profile:

  • Nadella worked with Sun Microsystems as a member of the technology staff before he joined Microsoft in 1992.
  • In Microsoft, in the beginning he worked as the senior vice president of R&D for the Online Services Division and vice president of the Microsoft Business Division.
  • He was made the president of Microsoft’s $19 billion Server and Tools Business and led the transformation of the business and technology from client-server software to cloud infrastructure and services.
  • He is appointed as CEO of Microsoft in January 2014.

Anil Ambani

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Anil Ambani:

Chairman of Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group.

Introduction:

  • Anil Dhirubhai Ambani (Gujarati: અનીલ ધીરજલાલ (ધીરૂભાઈ) અંબાણી), born on 4 June 1959, is an Indian businessman.
  • He is the chairman of Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group, one of the largest private conglomerates in India.
  • Anil Ambani is the younger son of Late. Dhirubhai Ambani & Kokilaben Ambani.
  •  Anil Ambani’s elder brother Mukesh Ambani and two sisters, Dipti Salgaoncar and Nina Kothari.
  • Spouse: Tina Ambani
  • They have two children (Anmol, Anshul).

Education:

  • Bachelor of Science degree from the Mumbai University.
  • MBA degree from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Industry Profile:

  • Anil Ambani joined Reliance Industries, the company founded by his late father Dhirubhai Ambani, in 1983 as Co-Chief Executive Officer and is credited with having pioneered many financial innovations in the Indian capital markets.
  • Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (ADAG) constructed & funded the The Mumbai Metro Rail project.

Achievements:

He is conferred the ‘Businessman of the Year 1997’ award by India’s leading business magazine Business India, December 1997.

 

Mukesh Ambani

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 Mukesh Ambani

Chairman & MD, Reliance Industries Limited (RIL)

 

Introduction:

  • Mukesh Dhirubhai Ambani (Gujarati: મુકેશ ધીરુભાઈ અંબાણી; born on 19 April 1957) is an Indian business magnate who is the Chairman, Managing Director and largest shareholder of Reliance Industries Limited(RIL).
  • Marital Status : Married.
  • A Fortune Global 500 company and India’s second most valuable company by market value.He holds a 44.7 % stake in the company.
  • RIL deals mainly in refining, petrochemical and in oil & gas sectors. Reliance Retail Ltd., another subsidiary, is the largest retailer in India.

Education:

  • Mukesh Ambani attended the Hill Grange High School on Peddar Road, Mumbai.
  • He received BE degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Mumbai.
  • He has enrolled for an MBA from Stanford University.

Industry Profile:

  • Chairman, Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Bangalore
  • Member of Board of Governors UDCT, Mumbai
  • Chairman, Managing Director, Chairman of Finance Committee and Member of Employees Stock Compensation Committee, Reliance Industries Limited
  • Former Chairman, Indian Petrochemicals Corporation Limited
  • Former Vice Chairman, Reliance Petroleum
  • Chairman of the Board, Reliance Petroleum
  • Chairman and Chairman of Audit Committee, Reliance Retail Limited.
  • Chairman, Reliance Exploration and Production DMCC
  • Former Director, Member of Credit Committee and Member of Compensation & Benefits Committee’, Bank of America Corporation
  • President, Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University, Gandhinagar, Gujarat

Achievements:

Year of Achieved awards Name of Achieved Award Award given by Organization
2000 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year Ernst & Young India
2010 Global Vision Award at The Awards Dinner Asia Society
2010 Business Leader of the Year NDTV India
2010 Businessman of the Year Financial Chronicle
2010 School of Engineering and Applied Science Dean’s Medal University of Pennsylvania.
2010 Global Leadership Award Business Council for International Understanding

 Website:

  • http://www.ril.com/

Social Life:

  • Mukesh Ambani stays with his family in Antilia – The most expensive home in the world.
  • His Spouse name is Nita Ambani
  • He has three children Akash, Isha and Anant.
  • He is the elder son of the late Dhirubhai Ambani & Kokilaben Ambani and  younger brother of Anil Ambani and two sisters, Dipti Salgaoncar and Nina Kothari.

Interesting Facts About Mukesh Ambani & His Family:

  • Ambani’s new house is called Antilia and according to a number of reputable publications, it is the most expensive home in the world. Antilia is actually the first house to exceed a net worth of one billion dollars.Antilia was built in downtown Mumbai, a city that is known for its exceptional poverty. The 60-storey house has a garage for 168 cars, an independent health club for each family member, a cinema and a staff of 600 people.
  • Anant Ambani, the 17-year old son of India’s richest man, is exceptionally spiritual. Numerous reports state that Anant Ambani is visiting the Lord Balaji temple as frequently, as possible.To prove his faith, the affluent teenager decided to make a special donation for the temple. Anant Ambani ended up providing a sacred white elephant as a special present to Lord Balaji.
  • Mukesh Ambani hates celebrating his birthday. The only exception he has ever made was on the occasion of his 50th birthday.
  • On the occasion of one of Nita Ambani’s  birthday, She received a jet plane worth 62 million dollars.
  • Nita Ambani had always wanted to be a dancer, but she instead holds degrees in interior design and teaching. Today, she is the chairperson of Dhirubhari Ambani International School.

Prem Watsa

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Prem Watsa

Founder, chairman, and chief executive of Fairfax Financial Holdings

Introduction:

  • (Born 1950 in Hyderabad, India) is the founder, chairman, and chief executive of Fairfax Financial Holdings, based in Toronto, Ontario.
  • He has been called the “Canadian Warren Buffett” by some during successful periods of investing.

Education:

  1. Hyderabad Public School, Begumpet.
  2. IIT Chennai graduate in chemical engineering (1971).
  3. MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business of the University of Western Ontario.

Industry profile:

  1. Member of the Board of Trustees of the The Hospital for Sick Children.
  2. Member of the Advisory Board for the Richard Ivey School of Business.
  3. Member of the Board of Directors of the Royal Ontario Museum Foundation.
  4. Chairman of the Investment Committee of St. Paul’s Anglican Church.
  5. In June 2009, he was installed as the ninth chancellor of the University of Waterloo.
  6. On January 22, 2012, it was reported he was to be appointed to BlackBerry handset maker, Research In Motion Ltd.
  7. On September 23 2013, Blackberry announced that it had signed a letter of intent to be acquired by Prem Watsa led Fairfax Financial Holdings in a $4.7 Billion deal.
  8. Fairfax Financial Holdings, an insurance-cum-investment company that Watsa founded in 1985, went on to become Canada’s most profitable company in 2008.