Anu Aiyengar

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Anu Aiyengar

She is a finance professional and managing director of JPMorgan Chase & Co at New York.

Introduction:

  • She is a finance professional and managing director of JPMorgan Chase & Co at New York, an American multinational banking and financial services holding company.

Education:

  • Aiyengar graduated from Smith College in liberal arts.

Industry Profile:

  • Aiyengar has started her career from American Express.
  • She is working in JPMorgan Chase & Co since 15 years and currently as Managing Director, Mergers and Acquisitions.
  • Over the past 15 years at JPMorgan, she has worked on around $200 billion worth of transactions.

Social Life:

  • She is married for 18 years with no children.
  • She finds relaxation through Indian classical dance.

 

Anshu Jain

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Anshuman Jain

Anshu Jain is the Co-CEO of  Deutsche Bank.

Introduction:

  • Anshuman Jain also known as (Anshu Jain) born on January 7, 1963 in Jaipur, Rajasthan, India.
  • He is an Indian business executive.
  • He took over as Co-CEO of Deutsche Bank on June 1, 2012 to succeed Management Board Chairman Josef Ackermann.
  • Jain is a member of Deutsche Bank’s Management Board and, as head of the Corporate and Investment Bank since July 2010, was globally responsible for Deutsche Bank’s corporate finance, sales and trading, and transaction banking business.
  • In November 2012 he purchased a two bedroom apartment in New York for $7.2 million.

Education:

  • He earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from University of Delhi’s Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi
  •  He also holds an MBA in Finance from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Industry Profile:

  • He started as an analyst in derivatives research at Kidder, Peabody & Co. where he worked from 1985 to 1988.
  • After three years, he joined Merrill Lynch in New York where he founded and led the securities industry’s first dedicated hedge fundcoverage group.
  • In 1995, Jain joined Deutsche Bank’s nascent markets business to set up and run a specialist unit focusing on hedge funds and institutional derivative coverage.
  • Since 2002, he has been in the Deutsche Bank Group Executive Committee (GEC) and was formerly head of Global Markets and joint head of the Corporate and Investment Bank from 2004

Awards & Achievements:

  • Anshu received Risk Magazine Lifetime Achievement Award in 2010.
  • The annual Business Leader Award from NASSCOM.
  • He is a 2005 recipient of the American Indian Foundation’s Achievement Award for philanthropy and ongoing involvement in development.
  • He won Euromoney Magazine Capital Markets Achievement Award in 2003.
  • As of July 25, 2011, he was appointed as CO-CEO of Deutsche Bank.

Social Life:

  • Jain lives in London with his wife and two children.
  • He is an active supporter of a range of wildlife and environmental conservation charities.
  • He is a strict vegetarian.
  • He displays an avid interest in photography, cricket and golf.

Dr. Harminder Dua

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Dr. Harminder Dua

Dr. Harminder Dua is an Indian-British medical doctor and researcher.

Introduction:

  • Dr. Harminder Dua, born in Jalandar, Punjab.
  • He is an Indian-British medical doctor and researcher (with MBBS, DO, DO (Lond), MS, MNAMS, FRCS, FRCOphth., FEBO, MD, PhD).
  • He is the chair and professor of ophthalmology at University of Nottingham.
  • He is the head of the Division of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences.
  • Dua is also the co-editor in chief with Arun Singh, of the British Journal of Ophthalmology.
  • He is president of EuCornea, the European society of Cornea and Ocular surface disease specialists.
  •  He is also president of the EVERf (European Association for Vision and Eye Research Foundation) and past president of the association itself.
  • He was elected to the chair of Academia Ophthalmologica Internationalis and invited to join as member of the American Ophthalmological Society by thesis.
  • In March 2011 he was elected president of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists, UK commencing his duties on 25 May 2011.
  • He has over 200 research publications, 20 published letters, and 14 book chapters to his credit.

Education:

  • He completed his Graduation in Medicine from Government Medical College and Hospital,Nagpur.

Discovery of Dua’s layer

  • In a 2013 paper, Dua and others at the University of Nottingham reported discovery of a previously unknown layer of the human cornea measuring just 15 micrometres thick between the corneal stroma and Descemet’s membrane.They refer to the reported layer as Dua’s layer.

 

Nitin Paranjpe

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Nitin Paranjpe

Nitin Paranjpe is now the President of the Home Care Business of Unilever globally.

Introduction:

  • He is now the President of the Home Care Business of Unilever globally.
  • Before this global role and promotion, he was the MD and CEO of Hindustan Unilever, before which he served as Executive director of Hindustan Unilever since June 1, 2007.

Education:

  • He acquired Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering (BE) from College of Engineering, Pune.
  • He also acquired an MBA degree in Marketing from  Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies (JBIMS), Mumbai.

Industry Profile:

  • In his early years in Hindustan Unilever, Paranjpe worked as Area Sales Manager – Detergents.
  • After working as a Sales Manager in  Hindustan Unilever , he worked as an Product Manager- Detergents.
  •  In April 1996, he became the Branch Manager – Chennai and in February 1999 he was appointed as a member of the Project Millennium Team.
  • During 2001, he was an Executive Assistant to the Chairman and Executive Committee in Unilever London.
  • On his return to India in 2002, Paranjpe became the Category Head – Fabric Wash and Regional Brand Director (Asia) for several Laundry and Household Cleaning (HHC) brands.
  • In 2004, he became Vice President – Home Care (Laundry & HHC) India.
  •  He was appointed as the Executive Director for the Home & Personal Care business in March 2006.
  • Paranjpe was appointed as the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Company in April 2008.
  • He is also an Executive Vice President of Unilever Companies in South Asia.
  • Paranjpe is a member of the Shareholders’ / Investors’ Grievance Committee and the Compensation Committee of the Company.

 

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.