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Nisha Millet is a swimmer from Bangalore, India. An Arjuna Award winner, Millet was the only woman in the 2000 Sydney Olympics swim team for India. Millet has won more than 600 gold medals at State, National and International Meets. She has represented India at the world swimming championships (1998 and 2004) & Asian Games(1998) and was the first Indian to qualify for swimming at the Olympics in the 200 meter freestyle (Sydney 2000). Millet has won the highest number...
Laxmi Agarwal, once known as the acid attack survivor, is now just Laxmi – a mother, a symbol of courage, hope and love for life. A motivational speaker and messenger for millions of social voices, she has inspired people and emphasised on the strength of inner beauty. Laxmi Agarwal was only 15 when she was attacked by her stalker with acid in 2005. He thought he will kill her dreams. Little did he know that she will bounce back and will...
Voted as one of the top 12 women achievers in the Global Entertainment industry by the Hollywood Reporter and among the top 50 Indians changing India by India Today. Guneet Monga has been a force to reckon with and the youngest game-changing producer in Indian cinema. Guneet started her career in production with international projects like Murder Unveiled, Valley of Flowers and Partition. She has since been associated with a number of path-breaking films in India, Say Salaam India being her...
Shankkar Aiyar is a prominent India-based political economy analyst, columnist and author. His path-breaking book "Accidental India: A History of the Nation’s Passage through Crisis and Change" has fetched him national acclaim as a public intellectual. Accidental India, an in-depth study of the political and economic history of modern India, examines the country’s transformation through the arresting angles of seven game changers, one for each decade since 1947. The book argues and establishes that the turning points in the country’s history...
Dr Susmita Mohanty is a spaceship designer and entrepreneur extraordinaire. She is the only entrepreneur in the world who has founded space companies on 3 different continents. She is the co-founder and CEO of EARTH2ORBIT, India’s first private space start-up that played a pivotal role in opening up the US launch market for India. She has co-founded and led two other companies, MOONFRONT, a boutique space consulting firm in San Francisco [2001-2007] and LIQUIFER, a trans-disciplinary space architecture firm in...
Anuj Gosalia’s first taste of the startup life was when he joined the founding team of What’s On India, led by media veteran Atul Phadnis. Working with a lean and versatile team to bring new business, service existing clients and optimize the website's algorithm all at once, was his introduction to the grueling nature of startups. What’s On India went on to be funded by Sequoia and was later sold for many million dollars. Anuj Gosalia then moved on to co-found a platform...
Ashwin Sanghi is one of India’s five best-selling English fiction authors. His three novels, The Rozabal Line, Chanakya's Chant, and The Krishna Key, are all based on historical, theological and mythological themes. He is one of India's most popular conspiracy fiction writers, and is an author of the new era of re-telling Indian history or mythology in a contemporary context. Forbes India has included Sanghi in their ‘2012 Forbes India Celebrity 100’. He has also been hailed by critics as the...
Nagavara Ramarao Narayana Murthy CBE, better known as N. R. Narayana Murthy, is an Indian industrialist and software engineer. He is the Founder of Infosys Limited, a global software consulting company headquartered in Bangalore, India. He founded Infosys in 1981, served as the CEO during 1981-2002, and as the Chairman and Chief Mentor during 1981-2011. Under his leadership, Infosys was listed on NASDAQ in 1999. He is currently the Chairman Emeritus of Infosys. Mr. Murthy articulated, designed and implemented the Global Delivery...
Alan Rosling CBE is an accomplished global business pioneer with specific knowledge of India and climate transition. Alan is co-founder of ECube, a specialist ESG platform in India which is establishing a climate finance institution. Earlier, he was Co-founder of Kiran Energy, one of India’s first solar power developers. Kiran was sold to a strategic investor in 2018. Alan spent 5 years as Executive Director of Tata Sons Limited, where he was in charge of the group’s internationalization (2003-09). In this period...
Ireena Vittal is among India’s most respected consultants and advisors. She was a partner with McKinsey & Co, for 16 years. She is now an independent director on select boards including Compass and Diageo (both FTSE companies) and HDFC, Wipro and Godrej Consumer (listed in India). She serves as an advisor to 'start ups" looking to build resilient business models. Finally, she is also on the boards of non-profits such as Vidhi, Path, Educate Girls, Janagraha, WaterAid, building on her interest...
Punita Lal is a high level, proficient manager with more than 25 years of involvement in system, advertising and authority, spreading over numerous topographies and societies. Lal's last position was as CEO for NourishCo, a joint venture between the Tatas and PepsiCo in the region. Her professional career began in the promoting business with Lintas, before moving to J Walter Thompson (JWT). While with JWT, she built up Pepsi's effective “Are you ready for the magic” marketing campaign. Punita Lal also worked...
Deepak Bagla has a professional career of over three decades with the World Bank, Citibank, and Private Equity and has held responsibilities across Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia. In 2015 he was appointed the Managing Director and CEO to establish INVEST INDIA, as The National Investment Promotion Agency of the Government and during his eight year tenure (March 2023) the Agency has been acknowledged as the World’s most awarded IPA. Invest India is the point of reference for Investors and also...
IT multinational organization. He was an extremely youthful CEO at 17 years old when he founded the organization and was named the world's most youthful CEO. He holds a diploma on global leadership and public policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government and Harvard University. Suhas Gopinath taught himself how to create websites with the assistance of books and made his first one, www.coolhindustan.com, at 14 years old. In 2005 he won the Karnataka's Rajyotsava Award and was the youngest among...
Ronnie Screwvala spearheaded Cable TV in India and went ahead to create UTV – spreading over Television, Broadcasting, Digital, Mobile and Motion Pictures, which he sold to The Walt Disney Company in 2012 . Ronnie Screwvala is driven by his enthusiasm for championing entrepreneurship – he authored a book on entrepreneurship titled Dream With Your Eyes Open.
Dr. Ajai Chowdhry, one of the six founder members of HCL began an exciting journey more than four decades ago with a dream to give India its very own microcomputer. The sheer clarity of vision and hard work led to a revolution and laid the foundation for the Indian IT industry, taking India to the league of major economies of the world. HCL, India’s original IT garage start-up founded in 1976, today is an Rs 72,000 crores (US $10 bn) global...
Som Mittal's name features first when we look at the drivers behind the advance of IT industry in India. Som Mittal has been working in the corporate world for more than three decades in different sectors and positions. He has held management positions at HP, Wipro, Compaq and Digital Equipment Corporation, and in his latest position as President of NASSCOM, he helped steer the business to develop from $60 billion revenue in 2008 to $108 billion in 2013 (in extremely troublesome condition...