THE TOP 10 ENTREPRENEURS IN INDIA

PREPARED BY:- VAIBHAV SWAROOP DEEPAK KHARE

1. Lakshmi Mittal

• Company Name – Mittal Steel

• Designation – Chairman & Chief Executive

• Net Worth: $ 20.0 billion• Born in a remote village, he got his start when his

family moved to Calcutta and opened a small steel mill.

• He has a personal stake of 87.4 percent in the $22 billion (2004 sales) Mittal Steel. A double-digit drop in U.S and European steel prices led to a 64% fall in third-quarter profits; the past 9 months down only 13%.

• He recently bought Ukraine's largest steelmaker in a televised auction.

2. Azim Premji

• Company Name – Wipro Technologies

• Designation - Chairman

• Net Worth: $ 11.0 billion

• One of the pioneers of the Indian outsourcing phenomenon, Premji got his major break in 1978 when IBM pulled out of India.

• He runs technology service giant, Wipro, which has been on a buying spree, picking up firms like Finnish telecom software outfit, Saraware, and Portuguese retail software group Enabler.

• He owns 82% of New York-listed Wipro, India's third-largest software exporter. His clients include Nokia, Microsoft and Prudential.

3. Mukesh Ambani

• Company Name – Reliance Industries Ltd.

• Designation – Chairman & MD

• Net Worth: $ 7.0 billion

• Mukesh maintains control of $16 billion (sales) Reliance Industries, the petrochemicals major whose stock is up more than 40% since the announcement.

• Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Group is talking to French retail major, Carrefour, and other global players to acquire a controlling stake and reach out to international consumers with its basket of Indian food produce.

4. Anil Ambani• Company Name – Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani

Group

• Designation - Chairman

• Net Worth: $ 5.5 billion

• Anil is Chairman of Reliance Capital and Reliance Communication and Chairman and Managing Director of Reliance Energy.

• Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Enterprises Group, an offshoot of the Reliance empire, with interests in telecom, energy and financial services.

• His personal stake in Reliance Communication is 66%. He was chosen as the CEO of the Year at the prestigious Platts Global Energy Awards for 2004.

5. Kushal Pal Singh• Company Name – DLF Ltd.

• Designation - CEO

• Net Worth: $ 5.0 billion

• Former army officer turned property baron, Kushal Pal Singh joined his father-in-law's company, Delhi Land & Finance in 1971.

• Today the DLF group, run by son Rajiv, with daughter Pia overseeing retail projects, is India's biggest real estate developer.

• The DLF Group has already developed over 35 million sq. ft. of projects across its three key businesses of residential, commercial and retail.

6. Sunil Mittal• Company Name – Bharati Group• Designation – Chairman & MD• Net Worth: $ 4.9 billion• Sunil Mittal, Founder, Chairman and Managing

Director of Bharati Group can be labeled as the most ambitious telecom entrepreneur in India.

• His rise from a small bicycle business with borrowed capital to the CMD of Bharati Group was ridden with hurdles.

• In 1995, Bharati Cellular Limited was formed to offer cellular services under the brand name AirTel. In 10 years, he has built the Bharti Group into India's largest mobile phone operator, with 14 million customers. Vodafone bought a 10% stake in Bharti Televenture, his joint venture with Singtel, for $1.5 billion in October.

• The group is now partnering with Axa in a new insurance venture.

7. Kumar Birla• Company Name – AV Birla Group

• Designation - Chairman

• Net Worth: $ 4.4 billion

• Kumar Mangalam Birla, Chairman of AV Birla Group, is scaling up his international operations.

• He is the fourth-generation head of $7.6 billion (sales) Aditya Birla Group, a commodities powerhouse named after his late father.

8. Tulsi Tanti• Company Name – Suzlon Energy Ltd.

• Designation - Chairman

• Net Worth: $ 3.7 billion

• Tulsi Tanti is the Chairman of Suzlon Energy Ltd., which deals in wind energy.

• He is one of those first time entrepreneurs who saw potential in an inchoate idea, ventured into it, and made it big.

• In 1990 Tulsi Tanti invested in two windmills and realized its huge potential. Faced with escalating power costs, this former textile producer moved into wind energy a decade ago, eventually building Asia's largest wind farm and the world’s sixth largest wind energy company.

• In October he listed Suzlon Energy, in which he and his three siblings own 70%. The company is expanding into the U.S., China and Australia.

9. Pallonji Mistry

• Company Name - Shapoorji Pallonji Group

• Designation - Chairman

• Net Worth: $ 3.3 billion

• Pallonji Shapoorji Mistry, often described as being media shy, is a construction tycoon. His employees call him the man with no faults while his friends call him humble.

• This secretive construction magnate is the biggest shareholder in Tata Sons, a holding company that has a big stake in India's largest software company, Tata Consultancy Services.

• Today Pallonji owns 18.35% stake of Tata Sons, while Ratan Tata himself owns less than a percent.

10. Narayana Murthy• Company Name – Infosys Technologies

• Designation – Chairman & Chief Mentor

• Net Worth:  $1.6 billion• In 1999, Infoys became the first Indian company

to be listed on NASDAQ. By 2006 the company employed over 50,000 people and had a turn over of two billion dollars.

• He is the Indian businessman, software engineer and the founder of Infosys Technologies, a consulting and IT services company based in India. He is currently the non-executive Chairman and Chief Mentor of Infosys. He was the CEO of the company for 21 years, from 1981 to 2002.

1. Dr. Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

• Company Name – Biocon Ltd.

• Designation – Chairman & MD

• Dr. Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Chairman & Managing Director of Biocon Ltd., who became India’s richest woman in 2004, was educated at the Bishop Cotton Girls School and Mount Carmel College in Bangalore.

• She founded Biocon India with a capital of Rs.10,000 in her garage in 1978 – the initial operation was to extract an enzyme from papaya.

• Today, her company is the biggest biopharmaceutical firm in the country.

2. Ekta Kapoor

• Company Name – Balaji Telefilms

• Designation – Creative Head

• Ekta Kapoor, creative head of Balaji Telefilms, is the daughter of Jeetendra and sister of Tushar Kapoor.

• She has been synonymous with the rage of soap operas in Indian TV, after her most famous venture ‘Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi’ which was aired in 2000 on Star plus.

• Ekta dominates Indian Television.At the 6th Indian Telly Awards 2006,she bagged the Hall Of Fame award for her contributions.

3. Neelam Dhawan

• Company Name – Microsoft

• Designation – Managing Director

• Neelam Dhawan, Managing Director, Microsoft India, leads Microsoft India. She is a graduate from St. Stephens College in 1980,and also passed out from Delhis Faculty Of Management studies in 1982. Then she was keen on joining FMCG majors like Hindustan Lever and Asian Paints.

4. Naina Lal Kidwai

• Company Name – HSBC Group

• Designation – Group General Manager & Country Head

• Naina Lal Kidwai, was the first Indian woman to graduate from Harvard Business School. Fortune magazine listed Kidwai among the worlds top 50 Corporate Women from 2000 to 2003.

• According to the Economic times, she is the first woman to head the operations of a foreign bank in India. ( HSBC)

5. Indu Jain

• Company Name – Times Group

• Designation - Chairman

• Indu Jain, the multi-faceted lady used to be the Chairman of the Times Group-The most powerful and largest Media house India has known.

• Indu Jain is known by many different identities such as that of spiritualist, humanist, entrepreneur, an educationalist but most prominently she played the role of the Chairman of Times Group. Indu Jain is the perfect picture of the successful Indian Woman entrepreneur.