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.
Andrew Stewart Mackenzie (born December 1956) FRS is a Scottish businessman, CEO of BHP Billiton, the world's largest mining company. He succeeded Marius Kloppers on 10 May 2013. In 2014, he was paid $7,123,000 in total compensation.
Early life:
Andrew Stewart Mackenzie was born in December 1956, grew up in Kirkintilloch, Scotland, and was educated at the University of St Andrews where he graduated with a first class bachelor's degree in Geology in 1977. He went on to study at the University of Bristol where he was awarded a PhD in Organic Chemistry in 1981.
Career:
Mackenzie was a postdoctoral research fellow with the British Geological Survey.[citation needed] He was a Humboldt Fellow and worked at the Nuclear Research Centre in Julich, Germany. He published over 50 research papers as a scientist.
In 1983, Mackenzie joined BP's research division. He worked his way to BP Finance, and then as head of capital markets. After 22 years at BP, he left as group vice president petrochemicals.
In April 2004, Mackenzie joined Rio Tinto as chief executive of the industrial minerals division. In June 2007, he served as the chief executive officer, diamonds & minerals.
He served as trustee of a think tank, Demos from 2005 until June 2008.
Mackenzie became the chief executive of non ferrous in BHP Billiton in November 2007. He succeeded Marius Kloppers as the CEO of BHP Billiton on 10 May 2013.
Awards and honours:
Mackenzie was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2014. His nomination reads
“ Andrew Mackenzie is one of the world's most influential applied earth scientists. He made seminal contributions to geochemistry in his early career, especially in relation to the formation of oil. For most of his career he has been a leader in the energy and mining industries working within BP, Rio Tinto and most recently in BHP Billiton. He has made major innovations in both technical and business arenas within these companies, and is pre-eminent as an earth scientist in the commercial world. He has recently been appointed CEO of BHP Billiton.
Personal life:
Mackenzie speaks five languages. He met his wife, Liz, whilst they were students at St Andrews.
Andrew S. Rosen is current Chairman and CEO of Kaplan, Inc.,a global education company that began as a test prep provider in 1938 and was purchased by The Washington Post Company, now Graham Holdings Company, in 1984.Rosen joined Kaplan in 1992 and was named Chairman and CEO in November 2008 following the resignation of long-time Chairman and CEO Jonathan Grayer.
Education and career:
Rosen joined The Washington Post Company in 1986 as a staff attorney for The Washington Post newspaper and moved to Newsweek as Assistant Counsel in 1988. When he moved to Kaplan, he served as Center Administrator, Regional Director, and Vice President for Field Management prior to assuming the role of Chief Operating Officer in 1997. He was then named President of Kaplan, Inc. in 2002 and later assumed responsibility for all of Kaplan’s higher education operations, including Kaplan University, Concord Law School and Kaplan Virtual Education. Under his leadership, Kaplan Higher Education has grown to account for half of Kaplan’s $2 billion revenue.
In October 2011, Rosen's first book, Change.edu: Rebooting for the New Talent Economy, was published. The book details Rosen's belief that the American higher education system has strayed from the goals of access, quality, affordability, and accountability and offers his ideas on how to restore those traits to America's higher education institutions. Change.edu was listed on Bill Gates's "Reading List" in Foreign Policy magazine's December 2011 "The Foreign Policy Top 100 Global Thinkers" feature, and Gates called the book "truly important for the debate on what needs to be done to improve the success of post-secondary education in America". In a review on Amazon.com, former New York City Schools Chancellor Joel Klein wrote, "this is a must-read book for those who care about fixing our nation’s higher education problems".
Rosen holds an A.B. degree from Duke University and a J.D. from Yale Law School.Before joining The Washington Post Company, Rosen served as law clerk to the Hon. Levin H. Campbell, Chief Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, in Boston.
He is the Chairman of EuroChem. He is also the co-founder and owner of MDM Bank. He also has a significant stake in K + S, a potash and fertilizer producer based in Germany. He is also known for owning the most expensive private boat in the world at $300 million.
Andrew R. Jassy was born in (January 13, 1968). Jassy is the child of Margery and Everett L. Jassy of Scarsdale, New York. He is Jewish with Hungarian lineage. His dad was a senior accomplice in the corporate law office Dewey Ballantine in New York, and director of the company's administration board of trustees. Jassy experienced childhood in Scarsdale, and went to Scarsdale High School. He is an American finance manager who has been the president and CEO of Amazon since July 5, 2021. Jassy drove Amazon Web Services (AWS) since its origin in 2003. He supplanted Jeff Bezos as president and CEO of Amazon on July 5, 2021. And Bezos became leader chairman. He is one of the minority proprietors of the Seattle Kraken in the National Hockey League.
In 1997, Jassy wedded Elana Rochelle Caplan, a style architect for Eddie Bauer and graduate of the Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science, at the Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel. Their wedding was directed by New York Rabbi James Brandt, a cousin of Elana. Both their dads were senior accomplices in law office Dewey Ballantine. They have two kids. In October 2020, it was accounted for that Jassy had purchased a $6.7 million 5,500-square-foot house in Santa Monica, California. They live in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle, in a 10,000-square-foot house purchased in 2009 for $3.1 million.
Jassy labored for a very long time after graduation prior to entering his MBA program. He filled in as a venture chief for a collectibles organization, MBI, and afterward he and a MBI associate began an organization and shut it down. He joined Amazon in 1997, with a few other Harvard MBA partners. His initial jobs included advertising chief. In 2003, he and Jeff Bezos concocted the plan to make the distributed computing stage that would get known as Amazon Web Services (AWS), which dispatched in 2006. Jassy headed AWS and its group of 57 individuals. In March 2016, Jassy was named a Person of the Year by the Financial Times. Later one month jassy was promote to senior vice president (SVP) and chief executive of company (CEO) of AWS. That year Jassy procured $36.6 million. In February 2021, it was declared that Jassy will succeed Bezos as the CEO of Amazon at some point in the second from last quarter of 2021, with Bezos changing to leader chairman. This produced results on July 5, 2021. Outside of his parts at Amazon, Jassy is likewise the administrator of Rainier Prep, a sanction school in Seattle.
She is the owner of Cox Enterprises, a privately held media company. Her empire stretches from newspapers and radio to television and cable, as well as other media-related businesses.