Brij Mohan Lall Munjal, founder of the world-famous Hero Group was born in 1924, at Kamalia in Pakistan. In 1944, at the age of 20, he went to Amritsar along with his brothers to earn a living. His two elder brothers Dayanand and Satyanand and younger brother Om Prakash were struggling to establish their business. Their journey began as the motor component supplier to the local market. In 1947, at the time of partition, like [...]
Ashok Hinduja, the youngest of the Hinduja family, one of the most famous and wealthy business companies in the world, takes care of the Indian end of the family business. A man of 56, and a staunch believer in astrology, Ashok Hinduja can be rightly termed as a workaholic. He believes into the mantra that there is no shortcut to success and with the help of lucky stars, one can crack the jackpot. Ashok Hinduja [...]
The CEO(Chief Executive Officer) of the Britian-based telecom major Vodafone Group plc., Arun Sarin was born on October 21, 1954 at Panchmari, Madhya Pradesh. After doing his schooling from the military boarding school in Bangalore, Arun graduated from IIT Kharagpur in 1975. During his school and IIT days, he excelled in studies, sports and various extracurricular activities. Thereafter, he moved to the United States where he did his MS in Engineering from the University of [...]
Anil Dhirubhai Ambani, born on June 4, 1959, is an Indian Entrepreneur and the chairman of Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group. He is a member of the Board of Overseers at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, as well as the member of the Board of Governors of the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur; Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and the Chairman of Board of Governors of DA-IICT, Gandhinagar. Anil Ambani was also designated as [...]
Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen was born on 3 November 1933 in Santiniketan, West Bengal. Besides being a world-renowned economist, Amartya Sen is also a philosopher. He served as a Master at the Trinity College at Cambridge University, the first Asian academic to head an Oxbridge college. Currently the Lamont University Professor at Harvard University, Amartya Sen traces his roots to an illustrious lineage. His father, Ashutosh Sen, taught chemistry at the Dhaka University. Amartya [...]
The founder and chairman of the Bose Corporation, Amar Bose was born on November 2, 1929. Born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, his father, Nani Gopal Bose, was an Indian freedom fighter who had fled to the United States to avoid being persecuted by the British police in India. Amar Bose obtained a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). During the World War II, Amar Bose took the help of some of his [...]
Aditya Birla (1944-1995) was a renowned Indian industrialist and former Chairman of one of India’s biggest multinational corporations- the Aditya Birla Group. Aditya Vikram Birla was born into the formidable business family of the Birlas, and is the grandson of the legendary G.D. Birla, who was one of India’s most outstanding industrialists and founder of the vast Birla industrial empire. Besides being a successful business tycoon, he also led a well-balanced family-life, along with his [...]
The co-founder and the managing director of the Godrej Group of companies, Adi Godrej, was born into a business family and left India at the age of 17 to study business management. He obtained both his bachelor’s and the master’s degree in management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and came back to India to join the family business. Before Adi joined the family business, Godrej was into the manufacturing of locks and soaps. Adi [...]
About Vijay Mallya is an Indian businessman who is the current chairman of the United Breweries Group. He has been the chairman of Sanofi India as well as Bayer CropSciencein India for more than 20 years. In a recent interview, Mallya mentioned that he wanted to retire from the position of chairman of Sanofi India. The most popular company of Mallya was Kingfisher which was shut down in 2012 but apart from this, he co-owns [...]
About Urjit Ravindra Patel is an Indian economist and the current Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). He succeeded Raghuram Rajan as RBI governor on 4 September 2016. Prior to this, he served as the RBI deputy governor and took care of monetary policy, economic policy research, deposit insurance, statistics and information management, communication and Right to Information. Early Life and Education Patel completed his Bachelor’s in Economics from the London School of [...]
