He is the founder, CEO and Chairman of the Dangote Group that he established in 1977. The company now owns or controls a huge percentage of the commodities being traded in his native Nigeria.
Aliko Dangote was born into the world in 10th April 1957 into an affluent wealthy Muslim family of the Nigerian bourgeoisie. Aliko Dangote was an ethnic Hausa Muslim from Kano, Kano State. He is a Nigerian tycoon business financier. He is the most well off individual in Africa, with an expected total assets of US$11.1 billion as of May 2021. the child of Mohammed Dangote and Mariya Sanusi Dantata, the little girl of Sanusi Dantata. He is the extraordinary grandson of Alhassan Dantata, the most extravagant West African at the hour of his passing in 1955.
Dangote was instructed at the Sheik Ali Kumasi Madrasa, trailed by Capital High School, Kano. On his initial life, he has said: I can recollect when I was in grade school, I would proceed to purchase containers of desserts [candy] and I would begin selling them just to bring in cash. I was so intrigued by business, even around then. In 1978, he moved on from the Government College, Birnin Kudu. He got a four year college education in business studies and organization from Al-Azhar University, Cairo. Dangote lives in Lagos, Nigeria. He has been hitched and separated from twice. He has three girls – Mariya, Halima, Fatimah – and one received child Abdulrahman Fasasi. He is likewise a devoted fan of Arsenal F.C. in England and has shown interest in getting it.
The Dangote Group was set up as a little exchanging firm 1977, that very year Dangote moved to Lagos to grow the organization. Today, it's anything but a multi trillion-naira combination with a significant number of its tasks in Benin, Ghana, Nigeria, Zambia and Togo. Dangote has extended to cover food handling, concrete assembling, and cargo. The Dangote Group likewise overwhelms the sugar market in Nigeria and is a significant provider to the nation's soda pop organizations, bottling works, and confectioners. The Dangote Group has moved from being an exchanging organization to be the biggest mechanical gathering in Nigeria including Dangote Sugar Refinery, Dangote Cement, and Dangote Flour. In July 2012, Dangote moved toward the Nigerian Ports Authority to rent an unwanted land parcel at the Apapa Port, which was supported. He later assembled offices for his flour organization there. During the 1990s, he moved toward the Central Bank of Nigeria with the possibility that it would be less expensive for the bank to permit his vehicle organization to deal with their armada of staff transports, a recommendation that was additionally endorsed. He likewise gave cash to the Nigeria sport service to revamp the public arena, Abuja. Dangote has expanded into broadcast communications and has begun building 14,000 kilometers of fiber optic links to supply the entire of Nigeria. Thus, Dangote was respected in January 2009 as the main supplier of work in the Nigerian development industry. He has said, "Let me reveal to you this and I need to truly accentuate it ... nothing will help Nigeria like Nigerians bringing back their cash. In the event that you give me $5 billion today, I will put everything here in Nigeria. Allow us to really concentrate and work." In 2014, the Nigerian government said Dangote had given 150 million naira (US$750,000) to end the spread of Ebola. In March 2020, he gave 200 million naira (US$500,000) towards the battle against the spread of COVID-19 in Nigeria. Aliko Dangote, just as Femi Otedola, vowed to give the Super Eagles of Nigeria US$75,000 for each objective scored in the Africans Cup of Nations (AFCON) 2019.
Amitabh Kant was born into the world on 1st March 1956. He is an IAS official of the 1980 bunch. As of June 2019, he is the CEO of NITI Aayog (National Institution for Transforming India). NITI is an administration organization for catalyzing financial turn of events.
He previously learned at Modern School, Delhi. He graduated with a degree in Economics (Hons.) from St. Stephen's College, Delhi and procured a M.A from Jawaharlal Nehru University. He went to Manchester Business School on a Chevening Scholarship. Afterward, he went to the Mid-vocation Program at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, and Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.[citation needed] Amitabh Kant is weddied to Ranjeeta Kant; they have two girls Vedica and Vanshica.
Amitabh Kant is the CEO of NITI Aayog. He is an individual from the Indian Administrative Service, IAS (Kerala Cadre: 1980 clump). He is the creator of Branding India – An Incredible Story, The Path Ahead: Transformative Ideas for India, and Incredible India 2.0-Synergies for Growth and Governance.
India Today, in its 45th Anniversary exceptional issue, highlighted Kant as one of the 45 observed Indians. In his meeting, Kant said that "the Kerala the travel industry secretary work was viewed as an inferior posting, yet I made a move to exhibit God's own country".
Kant was recorded as one of the world's 50 most compelling individuals reforming administration by Apolitical, a worldwide government learning stage. He got the Economic Times Policy Change Agent of the Year Award, the Bloomberg TV Personality of the year Award, the NDTV Administrator of the year Award and the Distinguished Fellowship of the Institute of Directors. He is the beneficiary of One Globe Award-2016 for authority in Transforming Governance for the 21st Century. He is a Member of the Steering Board of "Molding the Future of Production Systems" of the World Economic Forum{WEF}. India Today's High and Mighty rankings of 2019 highlighted Kant as perhaps the most influential individuals in India under the class of "The Supercrats - India's Top Bureaucrats" alongside different administrators like Nripendra Misra and Ajit Doval.
Anil Manibhai Naik(born June 9, 1942) is the Group Executive Chairman of Larsen & Toubro Limited, an Indian engineering conglomerate.
He was awarded the Padma Bhushan, India's 3rd highest civilian award, on January 26, 2009. Naik was also the recipient of the 'Economic Times Awards-Business Leader of the Year' award, for the year 2008.
Early life and Career:
Naik comes from Endhal, a village in South Gujarat, and belongs to a family of teachers. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Birla Vishvakarma Mahavidyalaya Engineering college in Vallabh Vidyanagar in Gujarat.
After graduation, he went to Bombay with a note from his father introducing him to Viren J. Shah working in Mukand Iron & Steel Works Limited to apply for its engineering programme. Due to his lack of proficiency in English, the personnel manager had asked him to improve his English. So Mr. Naik started working on his English skills. In the meantime, he joined Nestler Boilers, which was a Parsi-owned firm.
His career growth in Nestor Boilers was arrested by changes in ownership and management style and hence, once again, he was job hunting in 1965.
On March 15, 1965, Naik joined L&T, as a junior engineer. He was promoted as general manager in 1986. In 1999, he became the chief executive officer and managing director. And in 2003, he was appointed as chairman of Larsen & Toubro Ltd.
He is currently developing the educational institution set up by his father in a region called Kharel, Gujarat.2009.
He is currently the chairman of Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.
A.M. Naik has been married to Geeta Naik for over 50 years. He has two children who both live in the United States of America. His daughter is a pediatrician who is married and has two children. Naik's son also lives in the United States with his wife.
Awards and Honors:
- Honorary Consul General for Denmark.
- Senior member of the Confederation of Indian Industry.
- Member of the Board of Trade, Ministry of Commerce, Government of India.
- Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineers.
- Member of the Board of Governors of the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.
- Received the Special Award for Business Leader of the Year – Building India from the TV channel, NDTV Profit.
-Recipient of Gujarat Garima Award 2009. Awarded on 22 January 2009
-Recipient of Lakshya Business Visionary Award. Awarded by National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE), Mumbai.
-Received ‘Asiua Business Leader Award’ for 2010 by CNBC Asia.
- Received ‘CNBC Asia — Outstanding Business Leader’ Award for 2010.
- Conferred ‘Doctor of Letters’ (Honoris Causa) by the Sardar Patel University on 15 December 2011
- He is nominated as the Chairman of the IIMA (IIM Ahmedabad) Society and the Board of Governors, for a period of three years starting March 28, 2012
- Honorary doctorate from Gujarat Technological University on 19 January 2013.
He owns two major telecommunication companies in Malaysia, namely Maxis Communications and MEASAT Broadcast Network Systems. He is the Chairman and CEO of the Usaha Tegas Group Holdings and TAK Corporate Holdings. He is known as an advocate of education in his native country.
Anand Burman (also known as Anand Chand Burman and Dr. Anand C Burman) an Indian entrepreneur and chairman of Dabur a leading consumer goods company.Anand a billionaire with a net worth of $4.9 billion is among the Top 20 richest Indian and Forbes global billionaires
Early life:
Burman was born in an Indian business family. His father was Ashok Chand Burman chairman emeritus of Dabur.He finished his initial school education at St. Paul's School in Darjeeling, India. Burman completed his Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry from the University of Wisconsin and his Master of Science degree from the University of Kansas. Burman also got his doctorate in pharmaceutical chemistry from the University of Kansas.
Dabur:
Anand joined his family business Dabur as manager Research and Development department in 1980. He came on the companies board in 1986 and became chairman of Dabur in 2007.
Awards & Recognitions:
EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2011
Featured on Top 50 family business leaders 2013
Anand Mahindra, the group's Managing Director since 1997, became its Chairman in 2012, a position from where he continues to lead our evolution. As the group's leader-statesman, Anand's tenure has seen us strengthen our presence in India, blaze new trails the world over, and focus on innovation and technology as Mahindra's key drivers in the 21st century. Anand also spearheads our efforts to codify our philosophy of empowering people everywhere to Rise, and has made Mahindra a coveted, purpose-driven brand. His global perspective has led to a renewed focus on our culture, making Mahindra a great place to work. Mahindra's critical shift in its mind-set, from second-to-none to a global federation of innovative companies, has been Anand's singular achievement.
Anand's career at Mahindra began at Mahindra Ugine Steel Company Ltd., the country's foremost producer of specialty steels, as an Executive Assistant to the then Finance Director. In 1989, he was appointed its President and Deputy Managing Director. Two years later, he moved to Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd., kick-starting our era as the country's dominant producer of off-road vehicles and agricultural tractors. His storied rise has seen the group acquire, amongst others, Swaraj Tractors, Ssangyong Motors, Reva Electric Car Company, Satyam Computer Services, Gipps Aero, Aerostaff Australia and Peugeot Scooters.
Anand is co-founder of the Harvard Business School Association of India and has served on the Boards of the National Stock Exchange of India and the National Council of Applied Economic Research, as Chairman of the Governing Council of the National Institute of Design, and as a member of the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research. Some of his other noteworthy accolades include being listed by Fortune Magazine as among the World’s 50 Greatest Leaders (2014) and being voted "Entrepreneur of the Year" at the Forbes India Leadership Awards (2013).
A noted business commentator and humanitarian with over 3.1 million followers on Twitter, Anand frequently makes the case for Indian business at global forums. He initiated the Nanhi Kali programme two decades ago to provide free education to economically under-privileged girls. He's also responsible for one of the largest personal donations overseas by an Indian - an endowment of 10 million USD to the Harvard Humanities Center, which has been renamed as the Mahindra Humanities Center.
Anand graduated with honours (magna cum laude) from Harvard College, Massachusetts, in 1977, and secured an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1981.
Anant Gupta is President & Chief Executive Officer of HCL Technologies, a US $6.2 billion global Information Technology services company.
Early life:
Anant Gupta was born in Delhi on 8 January 1965. He schooled across the country including Don Bosco, Chennai, Bal Bharti Air Force School and Modern School in Delhi thanks to his father’s travelling job.
Anant obtained B.Sc. (Hons) Physics with Electronics from St. Xavier's College, University of Bombay in 1985 and M.Sc. (Engg) Microelectronics & Telecommunications, University of Liverpool, UK in 1987. He started his career as a Senior Design Engineer & Manager-R&D at India Telecomp Ltd where he set up the design group at the company.
Career at HCL:
Anant began his career with HCL in 1993. Since then he has held a series of leadership positions in the company, most recently as President of HCL’s Infrastructure Services Division. In this role, he led the company’s foray into global markets through its pioneering Remote Infrastructure Management (RIM) Services and was responsible for its business results in all the global markets in which HCL operates. Having been a key architect of the RIM model, he led the Division to become a $1bn business for the company growing its contribution to HCL’s revenues from 10.2% in 2005 to almost 30% today.
Described as focused, passionate and futurist, Anant’s distinctive leadership style was profiled and commended in a business bestseller ‘Blueprint to a billion: 7 essentials to achieve exponential growth’ authored by renowned management guru David G. Thomson.
Industry contributions:
Anant Gupta has written "The Blackbook on the Remote Infrastructure Management (RIM) Industry-- Demystifying the third 'wave' of Outsourcing".He is a founding member of NASSCOM's RIM Forum.
Anant has played a transformational role in the evolution of the IT Operations Management space, having pioneered three revolutionary delivery models - RIM as an alternate to the prevalent Total Outsourcing model, Business Ready Infrastructure (BRI) Service as a smart sourcing alternate for Utility Computing and the world’s first hosted pay-by-use Enterprise Systems Management Framework called MTaaS. He is also credited with playing a pioneering role in outlining the contours of several emerging technology formats and delivery models. His work on defining the 21st Century Enterprise blueprint enabled by Digitalization, Internet-isation of Things and Next-generation ITO has seen him win several prestigious citations, including being appointed as Chairman of WEF’s Steering Committee on IIoT.
Anant has also been a Task Force member of the New Energy Architecture project run by the World Economic Forum and has contributed significantly to global research literature on next generation Technology paradigms. His writings on this subject can be viewed at his LinkedIN Influencer Blog here.
Anant is a passionate proponent of the Sustainability & Diversity agenda. His efforts towards empowering women employees at HCL won him the prestigious 2014 Women's Empowerment Principles (WEPs) Leadership Award – 7 Principles from UN Women and UN Compact.
Anant serves as a Trustee of the HCLT Foundation and is also the Executive Sponsor for the company’s Diversity and Sustainability programs.His efforts towards empowering women employees at HCL recently won him the prestigious "2014 Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEPs) Leadership Award – 7 Principles" from UN Women and UN Compact.
Anant has also been a Task Force member of the New Energy Architecture project run by the World Economic Forum.
André Lacroix (born 1960) is a French businessman who, from 16 May 2015, is chief executive of the FTSE 100 multinational company Intertek Group plc.
From 1 January 2006 to 31 March 2015 Lacroix was the Group Chief Executive of Inchcape plc, a British multinational automotive retail and services company.Until 20 May 2005, Lacroix was chairman and CEO of Euro Disney SCA, the company that owns and operates Disneyland Paris in Marne-la-Vallee, France. He was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Euro Disney S.C.A. from mid-2003 to mid-2005 and President of Burger King International from mid-2000 to mid-2003.
Lacroix is currently Chairman of Good Restaurants AG.
André Lacroix is a graduate of ESCP Europe.
Andrew Cherng was born into the world in April 1948 in Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province, Republic of China on the northern bank of the Yangtze River. His dad was Ming-Tsai Cherng, a gourmet expert. He and his family moved to Taiwan after the Kuomintang was crushed on territory China toward the finish of the Chinese Civil War, and in 1963, his family moved to Yokohama, Japan, where his dad had accepted a task as a culinary specialist. He is a Chinese-conceived American extremely rich person restaurateur. He is the originator and administrator of Panda Restaurant Group, situated in Rosemead, California. He is the prime supporter and (CEO) of Panda Express. The Cherngs contribute out of their family office, the Cherng Family Trust.
He acquired a four year certification in math in 1970 from Baker University in Baldwin City, Kansas, and a graduate degree in applied arithmetic from the University of Missouri in 1972. At Baker he had met his future spouse, Peggy Tsiang, brought into the world in Burma and brought up in Hong Kong, who proceeded to procure a four year college education in science from Oregon State University in 1971 and a PhD in electrical designing from the University of Missouri. Andrew and Peggy, who were working for airplane organizations in the Los Angeles region, hitched in 1975. They have three little girls. Two of their girls, Andrea and Nicole, work for the Panda Company in its corporate central command in Rosemead. Their girl Michelle is an essential/auxiliary teacher. In 2015, it was accounted for that he and his better half had put $15.2 million in a beachfront property and home in Honolulu. In 2018, the couple bought a house in Henderson, Nevada.
In 1972, he moved to the Los Angeles region to help his cousin run an eatery called Ting Ho. Following a couple of months, he discovered an eatery in Pasadena to dominate. In June 1973, alongside his dad Ming Tsai Cherng, they assumed control over a café and began another Chinese eatery called Panda Inn in Pasadena, California on Foothill Boulevard, utilizing assets from the family and a Small Business Administration credit. It opened on June 8, 1973. The cooking was more broad Chinese than the Cantonese typically found nearby. In 1983, Andrew Cherng opened the main Panda Express, a drive-through joint, at the recently opened Glendale Galleria II shopping center in Glendale, California. He had been incited to get the twist going by the engineer of the shopping center who had eaten at Panda Inn and welcomed Cherng to have a spot at the food court. The organization had extended to 100 cafés by 1993, with the kickoff of an outlet at the University of California, Los Angeles. Cherng has expressed an inclination for staying with the firmly held. Notwithstanding, in 2006 he revealed to USA Today if the organization could get a valuation near that of Chipotle Mexican Grill, he may reevaluate his position. Notwithstanding, in a meeting with The Seattle Times paper in 2008, he said he would not be keen on unveiling the organization, saying they didn't require the cash and refering to worries with the difficulty and cost of managing investors. The Cherngs have since put intensely in new eatery ideas like Just Salad, YakiYan, Ippudo, and Pieology. In 2018, it was reported that the Cherng Family Trust bought the previous Mandarin Oriental inn on the Las Vegas Strip and rebranded it's anything but a Waldorf Astoria. The all out obtaining cost for the property was $214 million.