SUNIL MITTAL-BHARATHI ENTERPRISES

Sunil Bharti Mittal is the Founder and Chairman of Bharti Enterprises which has interests in telecom, retail, realty, financial services, agri-products and renewable energy. Bharti Airtel group of company is the world’s third largest global telecommunications company by customer base with over 300 million customers across South Asia and Africa. Sunil is a recipient of the Padma Bhushan, one of India’s highest civilian awards and also been awarded the INSEAD Business Leader for the World Award 2011 and the NDTV Profit Business Leadership Award 2011 for “Corporate Conscience”. Earlier he received the Global Economy Prize 2009 by The Kiel Institute at Germany and the US-India Business Council also honoured him with the ‘Global Vision’ Award 2008. He has received the GSM Association Chairman’s Award for 2008 and also a member of the Academy of Distinguished Entrepreneurs, Babson College, and Wellesley, Massachusetts. He was ranked among the Top 25 Philanthropists in the World in 2009 by the Barron’s Magazine.

JAMNALAL BAJAJ AND RAHUL BAJAJ-BAJAJ AUTO

The Bajaj Group is amongst the top 10 business houses in India and its footprint stretches over a wide range of industries, spanning automobiles like two-wheelers and three-wheelers, home appliances, iron and steel, lighting, insurance, finance andtravel. The group’s flagship company, it is ranked as the world’s fourth largest two- and three- wheeler manufacturer and the Bajaj brand is well-known across several countries.  Jamnalal Bajaj, who was the founder of the group, was a close confidant and disciple of Mahatma Gandhi. His son, Kamalnayan Bajaj, then 27, took over the reigns of business in 1942. He too was close to Gandhiji and it was only after Independence in 1947, that he was able to give his full attention to the business. Kamalnayan Bajaj not only consolidated the group, but also diversified into various manufacturing activities. The present Chairman of the group, Rahul Bajaj, took charge of the business in 1965. Under his leadership, the turnover of the Bajaj Auto the flagship company has gone up from INR.72 million to INR. 120 billion, its product portfolio has expanded and the brand has found a global market. He is one of India’s most distinguished business leaders and internationally respected for his business acumen and entrepreneurial spirit.

SHIVA NADAR-HCL

Shiv Nadar was born in 1945, in Tiruchendur, Tamil Nadu and he started his career at Walchand Group’s Cooper Engineering in Pune in 1967. He started HCL later in 1976 with an initial investment of Rs. 187,000 from six founders.In 1980 Shiv Nadar entered into the international market with commencement of his Far East Computers in Singapore to sell IT hardware.In 1984 Shiv Nadar also started with development of Personal Computer solutions called Busybee and UNIX platform based solutions. In the IT hardware business, his company started with an auxiliary called HCL office automation which became India’s leader in office solutions. By 1987, HCL earned a revenue of 100 crores and was ranked as India’s no.1 companyBy early 1998, Nadar had amalgamated his business into five companies – HCL Technologies, HCL Infosystems, HCL Comnet, HCL Perot and NIIT.HCL technologies were made public by Nadar in 1999, at the time of Initial Public Offering, HCL was the second largest IT Company.

ANAND MAHINDRA-MAHINDRA GROUP

Anand Mahindra (born 1 May 1955) is the chairman and managing director of Mahindra Group. His grandfather JC Mahindra co-founded the company in Mumbai, India. Founded as a steel trading company, the Group today has a presence in multiple sectors from agribusiness to aerospace. He is included by Fortune Magazine among the ‘World’s 50 Greatest Leaders’ and featured in the magazine’s 2011 listing of Asia’s 25 most powerful business people. Anand has also been noted by Forbes (India) as their ‘Entrepreneur of the Year’ for 2013 and Sustainable Development Leadership Award for The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) in the year of 2014.

DR. VERGHESE KURIEN-AMUL

He was the founder-chairman of the GCMMF for more than 30 years (1973–2006), is credited with the success of Amul. It is an Indian dairy cooperative, based at Anand in the state of Gujarat, India and itsFormed in 1946.It is a brand managed by a cooperative body and the Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation Ltd. (GCMMF), which today is jointly owned by 3.6 million milk producers in Gujarat. The cooperative was further developed and managed by Dr.VergheseKurien with H.M. Dalaya. Dalaya’s innovation of making skim milk powder from buffalo milk (for the first time in the world) and a little later, with Kurien’s help, making it on a commercial scale.

Lakshmi Mittal-ARCELOR

Lakshmi Mittal, once India’s richest person, slipped in the rankings as his ArcelorMittal and the world’s biggest steelmaker and got hit by falling steel prices due to a global supply glut caused by rising exports from China. TheCompany said the loss was partly due to write-offs in its iron ore mining business. Arcelor sold its 35% stake in Spanish auto parts maker Gestamp for $1 billion in a bid to reduce its $15.7 billion debt. Its revenues fell 20% to $64 billion in 2015 and it reported a net loss of $7.9 billion, a seven-fold rise over the previous year .It also proposes to raise $3 billion to boost its capital. But Mittal, who has been not worried about his home country, is reportedly rethinking plans to build a new steel factory in South India.

AZIM H. PREMJI-WIPRO

Muhammed Hashim Premji incorporated Western Indian Vegetable Products Ltd in 1945 in the district of Maharashtra. It used to manufacture cooking oil under the brand name Sunflower Vanaspati, and a laundry soap called 787, a by-product of oil manufacture and since 1966 after his death Azimpremji (24 July 1945 ) is a graduate in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, USA has been take charge Wipro Limited. He was diversified $2 million hydrogenated cooking fat company into close to $ 8 billion Revenue IT, BPO and R&D Services organization with a presence in 58 countries that it is today. The overall Wipro group revenues are $ 9 billion. Wipro Ltd is a global information technology, consulting and outsourcing company with 170,000 plus workforce serving clients in 175 plus cities across 6 continents and the company posted revenues of $7.7 Billion for the financial year ended Mar 31, 2016.Premji has been recognised by Business Week as one of the Greatest Entrepreneursfor being responsible for Wipro emerging as one of the world’s fastest growing companies.