Kumar Mangalam Birla, the Chairman of The Aditya Birla Group, is one of the most successful businessmen of India. The Aditya Birla Group comprises of 16 companies and joint ventures in India and 22 international companies, mostly in South-east Asia. He is also the Director of the Group’s international companies in Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines and Egypt. The Company operates globally in countries like Canada, China, Laos, USA, U.K, Germany, Hungary and Australia. In addition to [...]
Kiran Mazumdar Shaw has entered the elite ranks of the Indian business world as India’s richest woman. Born on 23 March, 1953, she is the Chairman & Managing Director of Biocon Ltd. She did her schooling from Bangalore and graduated in Zoology from Bangalore University in 1973, after which she moved on to Ballarat University in Melbourne, Australia. She became India’s first woman Brew Master and started off as a trainee brewer in Carlton & [...]
Jagdish Bhagwati, a University Professor of Economics at Columbia University and a world-renowned economist is noted for his defense of free trade against the critics of globalization. He was a member of the former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan’s high-level advisory group and the external advisor to the Director General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). Born in Mumbai in 1934, he did his graduation from Mumbai in 1954 and his post-graduation from Cambridge University, [...]
One of the pioneering industrialists of India, Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy(J.R.D Tata ) was born in Paris on July 29, 1904. He became the chairman of the Tata Group in 1938. He saw the assets of the Tata Group climbing from Rs 62 crore (Rs 620 million) in 1939 to over Rs 10,000 crore (Rs 100 billion) in 1990. Under him, the Tata Group diversified into a large number of sectors from airlines to hotels, trucks [...]
One of the icons of Indian industry, Ghanshyam Das Birla is remembered as the man who laid the foundation of the Birla Empire. He was a very close associate of Mahatma Gandhi and used to advise him on economic matters. The founder of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), G.D. Birla was born on April 10, 1894 in Pilani. He entered the world of business during the First World War. He [...]
About Dhirajlal Hirachand Ambani was one of the founders of Reliance industries in Bombay. When he was 16 years old, he moved to Aden,Yemen. Initially, Dhirubhai worked as a dispatch clerk with A. Besse & Co. He also worked in Dubai for sometime. Dhirubhai returned to India and founded the Reliance Commercial Corporation with an initial capital of Rs 15000. Dhirubhai set up the business in partnership with Champaklal Damani from whom he parted ways [...]
Cyrus Pallonji Mistry, popularly known as Cyrus Mistry is the newly appointed Deputy Chairman and Chairman Designate of the Tata Group and its holding company Tata Sons. Mistry, the youngest son of Irish construction magnate, Pallonji Mistry, will be the first non-Indian to head the Tata Group. Mistry will work with current chairman, Ratan Tata for one year and take over as chairman in December 2012 when Ratan Tata retires. Cyrus Mistry will be the [...]
Bhai Mohan Singh was born at Rawalpindi on the 30th of December in the year 1917. His father Bhai Gyan Chand was a Hindu whereas his mother Sunder Dai was a Sikh. Bhai Mohan Singh began his business career during the Second World War with a construction business. After the partition of India and Pakistan he settled down in New Delhi. While in Delhi he started business as a moneylender. His cousins, Ranjit Singh and [...]
Sunil Mittal is one of the main faces behind the cellular revolution in India, Sunil Bharti Mittal is the chairman and managing director of the Bharti group, which owns India’s largest GSM-based mobile phone service. Born on June 15, 1950 in Ludhiana, Punjab, he graduated from the Punjab University and set up a small bicycle business in Ludhiana, not wanting to follow the footsteps of his father who was an M.P. In 1979, he moved [...]
Sundar Pichai or Pichai Sundararajan is the current Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Google. He is one of the few Indians to hold such an important position in the Information Technology (IT) industry. Early and Personal Life Sundar Pichai was born in 1972 to Lakshmi and Raghunath Pichai. Born in Chennai, Sundar Pichai belonged to a middle-class family. His mother used to work as a stenographer and his father was an electrical engineer. Sundar Pichai [...]
