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India's most admiredbusiness leaders


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In 1991, he took over as group chairman from

J R D Tata, pushing out the old guard and

ushering in younger managers.Under his guidance, Tata Consultancy Services

went public and Tata Motors was listed on the

New York Stock Exchange. In 1998, Tata

Motors introduced his brainchild, the Tata

Indica.

On January 31, 2007, Tata Sons successfully

acquired Corus Group, an Anglo-Dutch steel

and aluminium producer. The merger created

the fifth largest steel producing entity in the

world. On March 26, 2008, Tata Motors

bought Jaguar & Land Rover from Ford Motor

Company.

Ratan Tata's dream was to manufacture a car

costing Rs 100,000. He realised his dream by

unveiling the Nano in New Delhi Auto Expo on

January 10, 2008. It was finally launched on

March 23, 2009.

Ratan Naval Tata

Chairman, Tata Group


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He took the Godrej Group to great height

even during controlled economy era.

An industrialist and a philanthropist, Godrejmodernised and systematised management

structures and implemented process

improvements.

After India's economy was opened up,

Godrej restructured the company's policies to

meet the challenges of globalisation.In the early 2000s, the Group completed a 10-

year restructuring process through which each

business became a stand-alone company with

a CEO/COO from outside the Godrej family.

Godrej, a major supporter of the World

Wildlife Fund in India, has developed a greenbusiness campus in the Vikhroli township of

Mumbai, which includes a 150-acre mangrove

forest and a school for the children of company

employees.

Adi Godrej

Chairman & Managing Director, Godrej Group


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Gurgaon became a world-famous outsourcingdestination in span of a decade because of K P

Singh's world-class earthquake-proof office

buildings, apartments, shopping malls and

leisure facilities.

In 2008 he became the world's richest real

estate tycoon.In 1960, he joined American Universal Electric

Company and soon after its merger with DLF

Universal Limited in 1979, he took over as the

managing sirector of this new company.

DLF has an estimated land bank of 10,255

acres.

Kushal Pal Singh

Chairman & CEO, DLF Ltd


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In May 2009, Chanda Kochhar took over the

reins of the bank from K V Kamath.

Kochhar has also consistently figured in

Fortune's list of 'Most Powerful Women inBusiness' since 2005.

In 2009, she debuted at number 20 in the

Forbes 'World's 100 Most Powerful Women

list'.

Chanda Kochhar

MD & CEO, ICICI Bank


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At the age of 21 he took over the family business --

Western India Vegetable Product Company -- when his

father, M H Premji, suddenly passed away in 1966.The Western India Vegetable Product later became Wipro

Products Ltd, Wipro Technologies and Wipro Corporation.

Under Premji's leadership Wipro embarked on an

ambitious phase of expansion and diversification. The

Company began manufacturing light bulbs with General

Electric and other consumer products including soaps,baby care products, shampoos, powder

In the 1980s Wipro entered the IT field, taking advantage

of the expulsion of IBM from the Indian market in 1975.

Premji is known for his modesty and frugality in spite of

his wealth. He drives a Toyota Corolla, flies economy class

prefers to stay in company guest houses.

Premji has been recognised by Business Weekas one of

the greatest entrepreneurs globally.

In 2009, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from

Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, for his

outstanding philanthropic work.

Azim Hashim Premji

Chairman, Wipro Limited


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In 1994 Deveshwar rejoined ITC and was

appointed whole time director and vice

chairman of the company. He took over as

chairman of ITC in January 1996.

He is the person who dreamt of making ITCLimited into India's largest fast moving

consumer goods company.

Yogesh Chander Deveshwar

Chairman & CEO, ITC Limited


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He was the CEO of the company for 21 years,

from 1981 to 2002. After stepping down as

CEO in 2002, he has broadened his scope of

activities to social services as well aspromoting India globally.

Murthy started a new venture capital fund

called Catamaran Venture Fund with the

money he got by selling 800,000 Infosys shares

worth Rs 174 crore (Rs 1.74 billion).

His wife, Sudha Murthy, also helped him set uphis VC fund by giving him Rs 430 crore (Rs 4.3

billion) which she got by selling quarter of her

stake in Infosys.

Murthy siad, "I want Infosys to be a place

where people of different genders,

nationalities, races and religious beliefs work

together in an environment of intense

competition but utmost harmony, courtesy and

dignity to add more and more value to our

customers day after day."

Nagavara Ramarao Narayana Murthy

Founder & chief mentor, Infosys


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She founded Biocon India with a capital of Rs

10,000 in 1978. The initial operation was to

extract an enzyme from papaya.

Her application for loans was turned down by

banks on two counts - biotechnology was then

a new word and the company lacked assets.

Over the years, the company grew under her

leadership and is today the biggest

biopharmaceutical firm in India.

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

Chairman & Managing Director, Biocon Ltd


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A first generation entrepreneur, Mittal started his first

business -- to make crankshafts for local bicycle

manufacturers -- in April 1976 at the age of 18, with a

capital investment of Rs 20,000 borrowed from hisfather.

In 1980 he sold his bicycle parts and yarn factories and

moved to Mumbai. In 1984, he started assembling

push-button phones in India.

In 1992, he successfully bid for one of the four mobile

phone network licences auctioned in India. His planswere finally approved by the government in 1994 and

he launched services in Delhi in 1995.

Bharti Cellular Limited offered services under the

brand name AirTel. In November 2006, he struck a

joint venture deal with Wal-Mart, the US retail giant,

to start a number of retail stores across India.In July 2006, he attracted many key executives from

Reliance ADAG, NIS Sparta and created Bharti Comtel.

Mittal, failed in his bid to buy South African telecom

giant MTN, but was successful in buying Zain Telecom

of Kuwait.

Sunil Bharti Mittal

Chairman & Managing Director,

Bharti Enterprises


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Beginning his career with TCS as a junior

engineer, he rose through the ranks and

eventually was charged with setting up TCS'

operations in the United States in 1979 in New

York City.Ramadorai spearheaded TCS' quality

initiatives, taking sixteen of its Development

Centers to SEI's CMM Level 5, the highest and

most prestigious performance assessment

issued by the Software Engineering Institute.

Subramanian Ramadorai

Vice-chairman,

Tata Consultancy Services


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As of July 2010, Mukesh Ambani was the

richest man in Asia and the fourth richest man

in the world with a personal wealth of $29.0billion.

He joined Reliance Industries in 1981. He

directed and led the creation of the world's

largest grassroots petroleum refinery at

Jamnagar with a current capacity of 660,000

barrels per day (33 million tonnes per year)

integrated with petrochemicals, power

generation, port and related infrastructure.

In August 2010 Reliance announced a $392

million stake in an American natural gas

interest located in central and northeast

Pennsylvania.

Reliance has also purchased significant stakes

in the shale gas assets of Atlas Energy Inc and

Pioneer Natural Resources.

Mukesh Dhirubhai Ambani

Chairman, Reliance Industries


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At HSBC she has held positions as chief

executive officer and deputy chief

executive officer of HSBC Bank in India and

managing director aof HSBC Securities and

Capital Markets India Private Limited.

She became the group's country head in2009.

Kidwai has repeatedly ranked in the

Fortune global list of Top Women in

Business, 12th in the Wall Street Journal

2006 Global Listing of Women to Watch ad

listed by Time magazine as one of their 15

Global Influentials 2002.

Naina Lal Kidwai

Group general manager & Country Head,

HSBC Group


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Puri has been the managing director of the

bank since September 1994.

He has about 36 years of banking experience in

India and abroad.

Prior to joining HDFC Bank, Puri was the CEO ofCitibank, Malaysia from 1992 to 1994.

Puri in an interview once said, he always finds

time for golf and family. He spends just an

hour each day on planning. The rest of the

time in bugging people to do their jobs.

Aditya PuriMD, HDFC Bank


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In 1944, when he was 20, Munjal along with elder

brothers Dayanand, Satyanand and younger

brother Om Prakash came from Kamalia (now in

Pakistan) and settled in Amritsar.

The brothers initially started a business by

supplying components to manufacturers of

bicycles in and around Amritsar.

After the partition in 1947 the Munjal family

completely shifted their base from Pakistan to

Ludhiana.Slowly they expanded their distribution network

and by early 1950s they were supplying

components of bicycles throughout India.

In 1954, Hero Cycles Ltd moved up the value chain

by making a shift from supplying to manufacturing.

In 1984, the Hero Group started a joint venturewith Japan's Honda Group, to manufacture

motorbikes Brijmohan Lall Munjal

Chairman, Hero Group


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He was appointed chairman of SBI in June

2006.The five-year term of Bhatt will expire in

March 2011. His will be the longest serving

chairman of SBI in recent past.

Starting his career as a probationary officer

in SBI in 1972, Bhatt held several key

assignments in the bank.He served as managing director of State

Bank of Travancore from January 2005 to

April 2006.

Om Prakash Bhatt

Chairman, SBI


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He founded Sterlite Industries in 1976 and then

in 1986 established Vedanta Resources bringing

together a variety of businesses owned by theAgarwal family.

Then followed a spate of acquisitions both in

India and overseas -- and with it came the

controversies, since many of them, such as

Bharat Aluminium and Hindustan Zinc, involved

public sector undertakings over which there

was much resistance, mainly political.

Recently he acquired up to 60 per cent of

British energy giant Cairn's Indian arm -- which

is into oil and gas exploration -- for around a

whopping $9.5 billion.

The Indian government, however, rejected his

bauxite-mining project in Orissa, citing

environmental issues on August 24, 2010.

Anil Agarwal

Founder & chairman, VedantaResources Corporation


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A chartered accountant, Birla earned an MBAfrom London Business School, where he is

also an Honorary Fellow.

He served as the Chairman of Securities and

Exchange Board of India's Committee on

Corporate Governance, and as chairman of

Sebi's Committee on Insider Trading.He has authored the nation's First Report on

Corporate Governance.

On the academic front, Birla is the Chancellor

of BITS, Pilani, Hyderabad, Goa and Dubai.

He is a director of the G D Birla Medical

Research and Education foundation.

Kumar Mangalam Birla

Chairman, Aditya Birla Group


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Ambani joined Reliance in 1983 as co-chiefexecutive officer and is credited with having

pioneered many financial innovations in the

Indian capital markets.

One of his major achievements in the

entertainment industry is the takeover of

Adlabs, the movie production to distribution to

multiplex company that owns India's only

dome theatre and the joint venture worth

$825 million with Steven Spielberg.

Ambani was in talks with Everton officials over

a deal to takeover the club. Before this he was

also on the brink of buying Newcastle United.

Anil Dhirubhai Ambani

Chairman,

Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group


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Mallya took over as chairman of United Breweries Group in 1984.

In May 2007, United Breweries Group announced the all-cash

acquisition of scotch whisky maker Whyte & Mackay for pound 595

million (approximately Rs 6000 crore).

In 2005, Mallya established Kingfisher Airlines, which later bought a 26per cent stake in Air Deccan, a low cost Indian airline. Mallya later

rebranded it as Kingfisher Red.

In 2007, Mallya and the Mol family from The Netherlands bought the

Spyker F1 team for euro 88 million. The team changed its name to

Force India F1 from the 2008 Season.

Mallya's United Breweries sponsors the East Bengal and Mohun Baganfootball clubs in Kolkata.

He also was part of the consortium that acquired Queens Park Rangers

FC, as part of the Bernie Ecclestone, Flavio Briatore and Lakshmi Mittal.

Mallya also owns the Royal Challengers Bangalore team in the Indian

Premier League.

Mallya entered politics in 2000 and replaced Subramanian Swamy as

the president of the Janata Party. He is a Member of Parliament in Rajya

Sabha.

In 2004, he placed the winning bid of pound 175,000 for the sword of

Tipu Sultan at an auction in London, and brought it back to India.

In March 2009, Mallya successfully bid for the belongings of Mahatma

Gandhi at $1.8 million, in a New York auction.

Vijay Mallya

Chairman,

United Breweries

Group & KingfisherAirlines


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In the summer of 1991, he was appointeddeputy managing director of Mahindra &

Mahindra Ltd.

In April 1997, he was appointed managing

director and in January 2003 given the

additional responsibility of vice chairman.

Mahindra was a co-promoter of Kotak

Mahindra Finance, which in 2003 was

converted into a bank.

Mahindra is the co-founder of the Harvard

Business School Association of India.

In 2009, Tech Mahindra, successfully acquires

Satyam Computer.Anand Mahindra

Vice chairman & MD,Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd


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Along with Ajai Chowdhry (chairman, HCL

Infosystems), Arjun Malhotra (CEO and

chairman, Headstrong), Subhash Arora, YogeshVaidya and D S Puri, he started Microcomp to

sell teledigital calculators in the Indian market

under the brand name Televista.

HCL was founded later in 1976 with an

investment of Rs 187,000 from the 6 founders

and Uttar Pradesh government was added as26 per cent equity partner.

Nadar took HCL Technologies public in 1999.

His partnernship with Singapore Telecom to

address the now-booming Indian Telecom

market was unsuccessful as well as his

attempts in the granite and aquaculturebusiness.

Shiv Nadar

Chairman & chief strategy officer,HCL Technologies


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