He used to be the Deputy Prime Minister of the Oil and Gas Industry in the Soviet Union. He helped establish Langepas Uray Kogalymneft, the first vertically integrated, state-owned oil and energy company in Russia. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, it became known as LUKoil. He is its largest shareholder and he served as its former President.
Vijay K. Thadani (born 1951) is an Indian businessman who co-founded NIIT along with Rajendra S. Pawar in 1981. He is currently the CEO of the company. He is an alumnus of Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.
He has been actively engaged with many industry associations.
Served as President of the Indian IT industry association, MAIT and also chaired the Indian Government’s Committee on National Information Infrastructure Policy
Served as Chairman of the IT Committee, Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) in USA
Currently serving as the Chairman of CII National Committee on Education and also serves as the Chairman of the National Accreditation Board for Education and Training (NABET), which works under the aegis of the Quality Council of India
Serving on the Board of CompTIA USA, an association advancing the global interests of information technology industry and also as a member of the India Advisory Board of the Maastricht University, Netherlands
Recently appointed as a member of the Strategy Council of Global Alliance for ICT and Development of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA-GAID)
Full Name : Vikramaditya A Chandra
Born : 7th - Jan - 1967
Zodiac Sign : Capricorn
Birth Place : New Delhi
Country : India
Education : University of Oxford England,Stanford University California,St Stephen's College Delhi
Occupation : CEO
Industry : Media
NDTV, one of the biggest news broadcasters of the Indian sub-continent today has become a huge part of the life of Indians. Its not a surprise that Vikram Chandra, the CEO and lead reporter of NDTV is as familiar as any other Bollywood superstar from the country.
It can be quite uncanny that the CEO of a media television actually appears in the shows like Gadget Guru and The Big Fight as a host, but such is Vikram Chandra’s dedication. His love to the media enables him to manage all kinds of programming on his boat despite being hectic.
Early Life:
Chandra’s fondness and interest towards the field of journalism was probably in his blood. His mother Nandini Chandra was also a very popular journalist who worked for The Hindustan Times, famous Indian Newspaper Daily. While he was still in school, Vikram was the editor of the school magazine, the Doon School Weekly.
Although he deviated from the field for a while when he graduated with Economics from St.Stephen’s college in New Delhi, he went back to studying journalism from the prestigious Stanford University this time. He also studied at Oxford University for a while with the help of the Inks scholarship.
Chandra began his career with the media in 1991, starting off with The Newstrack, a TV news magazine. Three years later he bagged a job with the New Delhi Television (NDTV) and very soon became a prominent reporter at the news channel. His notable reporting work was the time when he gave live exclusive insights about the Kargil War in the year 1999 from an army camp at Siachen.
Vikram Chandra was the head of the NDTV Profits for a while and later, he was appointed as the CEO of the NDTV news channel. He is now also one of the board members of NDTV Network.
Vikram’s book, The Srinagar conspiracies, is a thriller he wrote while he stayed in Kashmir reporting the war to the nation. The book went on to become a best seller. He is also known for the media campaigns that he had started, Greenathon (for bringing electricity to the rural areas) and Save The Tiger being some of them. Vikram was bestowed with significant laurels for all the amazing work that he did.
He was announced as the ‘Global Leader of Tomorrow’ by the World Economic Forum in Davos and is the recipient of the Teacher’s Achievement Award for Communication. With popularity only going up each day, Vikram Chandra is sure to go higher up on the ladder as one of the top most journalists of India, leading by an example.
Awards:
2008-Indian Television Academy
2007-Global Leader for Tomorrow
2003-Teachers Achievement, Hero Honda
He was the co-owner and Chairman of Tyumen Oil in the mid-90s before it brokered a deal with British Petroleum. He is the founder of SUAL Holdings, later renamed the RUSAL Company, considered to be the most successful aluminum company in the world. He also owns the Renova Group, a holding company. He is also the head of Skolkovo, a government project that aims to build a center for computer production in Russia.
Vinod Goenka, is an Indian billionaire real-estate developer, Chairman and Managing Director of
Vinod Goenka, is an Indian billionaire real-estate developer, Chairman and Managing Director of DB Realty Ltd,One of the largest Real Estate Development companies in India, based out of Mumbai. Having started his career at the age of 23, Vinod Goenka has over 35 years of expertise as a real estate developer, hotelier and industrialist, with over 20 million sq. feet of development to his credit.
His net worth is estimated at US$1.18 billion by Forbes magazine as of 2010. He started off by joining his father’s interior design and furniture company in Mumbai and helped expand it to form the Dynamix Group. Later, he partnered with the Balwa family to form DB Realty Ltd and build Le Royal Meridien Hotel Mumbai, near Mumbai’s International Airport.
Personal life
Mr. Vinod Goenka resides in Mumbai; he is married to Aseela Lookmanji and has two children, a son and a daughter. He was an active member of the Young Presidents' Organization (YPO), graduating to become a member of the World Presidents Organization (WPO) in 2009.
Early life
Born in 1959 in Calcutta (now Kolkata), he moved to Bombay at the age of 6 with his family beginning his education at Green Lawns High School. He then attended Jamnabai Naree School and Campion School in Fort later. He was national level athlete with a 100 meter sprint of 11.5 seconds, 200 meter sprint of 23.5 seconds and a long jump distance of 6.31 meters. Following a muscle injury, and unable to return to the track, Goenka began taking up other sports.
At the age of 23, Vinod Goenka started a tailoring shop with a group of his childhood friends in Juhu but soon moved on to looking after his father’s business of interior design and furniture as his father had then moved on to Real Estate and Construction. At the age of 23-24, Goenka’s father, Mr. K.M. Goenka bought Crystal Granite, a sick company on the verge of closing shop, and handed it over to his son to run and revive.
Business Ventures:
Dynamix Group
Goenka started his career at 23 years old by joining Conwood Constructions, the real estate business run by his father, expanding and transforming it into the Dynamix Group. The Dynamix Group has developed Gokuldham and Yashodham in Goregaon, Vasant Vihar in Thane, Mahavir Nagar in Kandivali and Shristi at Mira Road, in the Mumbai suburbs and 140- acre sea-side hill-station, Aldeia de Goa, at Bambolim Beach, Goa.
Crystal Granite and Marble Ltd
Goenka also established Crystal Granite and Marble Ltd, a 100% EOU for cutting and polishing high grade granite and marble.
Schreiber Dynamix Dairies Ltd
The Goenka family also owns and operates Schreiber Dynamix Dairies Ltd., one of the leading dairies in India, located in Baramati.
DB Realty Ltd
In 2006, Vinod Goenka came together with Mr. Shahid Balwa from the Balwa Group, after a 9 year long affiliation, in a Joint Venture to create the DB Realty Ltd (Dynamix Balwa Realty). DB Realty Ltd has been listed on both the National Stock Exchange and the Bombay Stock Exchange in 2010. DB Realty Ltd has developed over 25 projects in and around Mumbai and Pune. The company’s notable projects include DB Crown, DB Orchid Heights, DB Woods, Orchid Suburbia and DB Ozone.
DB Hospitality
Mr. Goenka and Mr. Balwa initiated a diversification of the group into the hospitality sector under the DB Hospitality banner, constructing the Le Royal Meridien, Mumbai (now known as The Hilton International Airport Hotel, Mumbai). Operational for over 15 years, the hotel was the first venture undertaken by Goenka and Balwa as partners before the formation of DB Realty Ltd. DB Hospitality is also constructed the Hotel Grand Hyatt, Goa at Bambolim. The hotel is located on the same hillside that is owned by the Dynamix Group, Aldeia de Goa.
2G Scam
Goenka as DB's promoters also diversified into the telecom sector and bagged 2G licences, for Rs 1,537 crore (Rs billion), to operate in 15 circles. Later, they sold 45 per cent stake in telecom venture Swan Telecom to UAE-based Etisalat for nearly Rs 4,200 crore (Rs 42 billion). Vinod Goenka was arrested on April 20, 2011 for his alleged role in the scam and was granted bail on November 23, 2011 by the Supreme Court.
UAE telecoms operator Etisalat has sued its Indian joint venture partners Vinod Goenka and Shahid Balwa for fraud, the former monopoly said on Thursday, following the Supreme Court's recent order to cancel its affiliate’s licences amid a corruption probe.
,One of the largest Real Estate Development companies in India, based out of Mumbai. Having started his career at the age of 23, Vinod Goenka has over 35 years of expertise as a real estate developer, hotelier and industrialist, with over 20 million sq. feet of development to his credit.
His net worth is estimated at US$1.18 billion by Forbes magazine as of 2010. He started off by joining his father’s interior design and furniture company in Mumbai and helped expand it to form the Dynamix Group. Later, he partnered with the Balwa family to form DB Realty Ltd and build Le Royal Meridien Hotel Mumbai, near Mumbai’s International Airport.
Personal life
Mr. Vinod Goenka resides in Mumbai; he is married to Aseela Lookmanji and has two children, a son and a daughter. He was an active member of the Young Presidents' Organization (YPO), graduating to become a member of the World Presidents Organization (WPO) in 2009.
Early life
Born in 1959 in Calcutta (now Kolkata), he moved to Bombay at the age of 6 with his family beginning his education at Green Lawns High School. He then attended Jamnabai Naree School and Campion School in Fort later. He was national level athlete with a 100 meter sprint of 11.5 seconds, 200 meter sprint of 23.5 seconds and a long jump distance of 6.31 meters. Following a muscle injury, and unable to return to the track, Goenka began taking up other sports.
At the age of 23, Vinod Goenka started a tailoring shop with a group of his childhood friends in Juhu but soon moved on to looking after his father’s business of interior design and furniture as his father had then moved on to Real Estate and Construction. At the age of 23-24, Goenka’s father, Mr. K.M. Goenka bought Crystal Granite, a sick company on the verge of closing shop, and handed it over to his son to run and revive.
Business Ventures:
Dynamix Group
Goenka started his career at 23 years old by joining Conwood Constructions, the real estate business run by his father, expanding and transforming it into the Dynamix Group. The Dynamix Group has developed Gokuldham and Yashodham in Goregaon, Vasant Vihar in Thane, Mahavir Nagar in Kandivali and Shristi at Mira Road, in the Mumbai suburbs and 140- acre sea-side hill-station, Aldeia de Goa, at Bambolim Beach, Goa.
Crystal Granite and Marble Ltd
Goenka also established Crystal Granite and Marble Ltd, a 100% EOU for cutting and polishing high grade granite and marble.
Schreiber Dynamix Dairies Ltd
The Goenka family also owns and operates Schreiber Dynamix Dairies Ltd., one of the leading dairies in India, located in Baramati.
DB Realty Ltd
In 2006, Vinod Goenka came together with Mr. Shahid Balwa from the Balwa Group, after a 9 year long affiliation, in a Joint Venture to create the DB Realty Ltd (Dynamix Balwa Realty). DB Realty Ltd has been listed on both the National Stock Exchange and the Bombay Stock Exchange in 2010. DB Realty Ltd has developed over 25 projects in and around Mumbai and Pune. The company’s notable projects include DB Crown, DB Orchid Heights, DB Woods, Orchid Suburbia and DB Ozone.
DB Hospitality
Mr. Goenka and Mr. Balwa initiated a diversification of the group into the hospitality sector under the DB Hospitality banner, constructing the Le Royal Meridien, Mumbai (now known as The Hilton International Airport Hotel, Mumbai). Operational for over 15 years, the hotel was the first venture undertaken by Goenka and Balwa as partners before the formation of DB Realty Ltd. DB Hospitality is also constructed the Hotel Grand Hyatt, Goa at Bambolim. The hotel is located on the same hillside that is owned by the Dynamix Group, Aldeia de Goa.
2G Scam
Goenka as DB's promoters also diversified into the telecom sector and bagged 2G licences, for Rs 1,537 crore (Rs billion), to operate in 15 circles. Later, they sold 45 per cent stake in telecom venture Swan Telecom to UAE-based Etisalat for nearly Rs 4,200 crore (Rs 42 billion). Vinod Goenka was arrested on April 20, 2011 for his alleged role in the scam and was granted bail on November 23, 2011 by the Supreme Court.
UAE telecoms operator Etisalat has sued its Indian joint venture partners Vinod Goenka and Shahid Balwa for fraud, the former monopoly said on Thursday, following the Supreme Court's recent order to cancel its affiliate’s licences amid a corruption probe.
Virginia Marie "Ginni" Rometty (born July 29, 1957) is an American business executive. She is the current Chairwoman, President and CEO of IBM, and the first woman to head the company. Prior to becoming president and CEO in January 2012, she held the positions of Senior Vice President and Group Executive for Sales, Marketing, and Strategy at IBM. She has been named to Fortune magazine's "50 Most Powerful Women in Business" for ten consecutive years, ranking #1 in 2012, 2013 and 2014, and was one of Forbes magazine's "World's 100 Most Powerful People" in 2014. She was also named to the Time 100 in 2012, and was included in the 50 Most Influential list of Bloomberg Markets magazine in September 2012. Rometty is ranked #2 among CEO's who investors say should be replaced due to poor performance.
Career:
After graduation in 1979, Rometty went to work for General Motors Institute; in 1981, she joined IBM as a systems engineer in its Detroit office.She joined IBM's Consulting Group in 1991. In 2002, she "championed the purchase of the big business consulting firm, PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, for $3.5 billion." Rometty became senior vice president and group executive for sales, marketing and strategy in 2009 and is "credited with spearheading IBM's growth strategy by getting the company into the cloud computing and analytics businesses. She was also at the helm of readying Watson, the Jeopardy! playing computer, for commercial use."
On October 25, 2011, IBM announced that she was to be the company's next president and CEO, with Sam Palmisano stepping down but retaining his position as chairman.Rometty's appointment marks the first time a woman has been CEO of IBM.Regarding her promotion, Palmisano stated, "Ginni got it because she deserved it... It’s got zero to do with progressive social policies."
On September 26, 2012, IBM announced that Rometty was taking on the added role of chairman of IBM, as Samuel Palmisano prepared to retire at the end of 2012. Rometty commenced her duty as Chairwoman, President and CEO of IBM on October 1, 2012.One of her goals is to focus company efforts on the cloud and cognitive computing systems, such as Watson.
Boards and honors:
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Rometty serves on the Council on Foreign Relations; the Board of Trustees of her alma mater Northwestern University; the Board of Overseers and Board of Managers of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center;and is a council member at the Latin America Conservation Council, a subsidiary of The Nature Conservancy. She also served on the Board of Directors of AIG from 2006 until 2009.
In 2014, Rometty was featured in the PBS documentary The Boomer List.Also that year, she became the third female member of the Augusta National Golf Club.She has received honorary doctoral degrees from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (2014) and Northwestern University (2015).
In Fortune's September 15, 2015 issue, Rometty ranked 3rd on their Most Powerful Women List.
Vishal Sikka is an Indian American CEO and MD of Infosys. Prior to joining Infosys, Dr. Vishal Sikka was a member of the Executive Board of SAP AG and the Global Managing Board, leading all SAP products and innovation globally. Wikipedia
Born: June 1, 1967 (age 49), Shajapur district
Employer: Infosys
Education: Stanford University
Nominations: CNN-IBN Indian of the Year Global Indian
He is the Chairman of Novolipetsk Steel, a steel company based in Russia. He serves on the board of a number of metal producers in his native country. He holds multiple degrees in economics and metal engineering.
He is part-owner of Interros, a holding company that owns Norilsk Nickel, a mining firm, and Sidanco, an oil company. He also heads ProfMedia, a multimedia corporation that owns the rights of MTV and VH1 in Russia. He also heads the National Council on Corporate Governance and the Board of Trustees of State Hermitage. He is also on the board of the Solomon Guggenheim Foundation and the Russian Public Chamber.
He is the Prime Minister of Russia. He was also its former President who led the country’s economic transformation. Though critics question his human rights record and foreign policy making, he has remained popular with its citizens.