G. V. Prasad is an Indian business executive, and CEO of Dr. Reddy's Laboratories. Prasad studied Chemical Engineering at the Alagappa College of Technology. After completing five semesters, he went on to the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago to complete the three remaining semesters. Prasad followed up the engineering degree with a one-year MBA at Purdue University. He won the 'Outstanding Senior Student' Award from the American Institute of Chemists, Chicago chapter in 1982. He earned his Masters in Industrial Administration from Purdue University a year later.
His first exposure to the world of pharmaceuticals was in 1985 with Benzex Labs, a pharmaceutical enterprise that he co-founded. Benzex was later acquired by Dr. Reddys and Prasad returned to the construction business, only to come back to pharmaceuticals in 1990 – this time as the CEO and MD of Cheminor Drugs Ltd. In 2001, Cheminor Drugs merged with Dr.Reddy's Laboratories and Prasad took over as the vice-chairman and CEO of the merged entity.
Early career:
After completing his Masters, Prasad returned to India and joined his father's construction business, immersing himself in various projects in Karnataka. In 1985, he co-founded Benzex Labs, an API manufacturing company, which was later acquired by Dr Reddy's. He briefly returned to the construction business before reappearing on the pharma landscape in 1990 as managing director of Cheminor Drugs Ltd. Fueled by a spirit of entrepreneurship, Prasad transformed Cheminor into a world class API and Generics manufacturer, largely through his focus on professionalism, good governance and transparency.
In 2001, Cheminor Drugs merged with Dr.Reddy's Laboratories and Prasad took over as the vice-chairman and CEO of the merged entity. Prasad is widely credited as the architect of Dr. Reddy's successful global generics strategy. He envisioned newer business platforms like the Custom Pharmaceutical business and Specialty pharmaceuticals and is dedicated to building the innovation side of the business.
Professional affiliations:
AP State Committee, WWF-India
Member of the Advisory Board, Acumen Fund
Member of the Board, Infotech Enterprises Ltd.
Member of the Board, Diana Hotels, India
Member of the Board, Ocimum Bio Solutions
Member, American Chemical Society
Member, American Institute of Chemical Engineers
Served as Chairman of the CII National Committee on Environment and the Intellectual Property Committee (2006–2007)
Gary Rodkin is the past CEO and President of ConAgra Foods, one of the largest food processing companies in North America. Rodkin was formerly the CEO and president of the North America division of PepsiCo from 1995 to 2005, and still is a special consultant through his exit agreement with the company. He helped PepsiCo grow in the purchasing of Quaker Oats. He also was vice president of marketing at General Mills for many years before he left for PepsiCo. Rodkin got his bachelor's in economics from Rutgers University and his M.B.A. from Harvard School of Business.
On August 12, 2014, Rodkin announced that he would be retiring as CEO in 2015.
Compensation:
While CEO of ConAgra Foods in 2009, Gary M. Rodkin earned a total compensation of $5,858,677, which included a base salary of $1,019,231, a cash bonus of $1,100,000, stocks granted of $2,126,000, options granted of $1,425,850, and other compensation totaling $187,596.
Gautam Adani (born 24 June 1962) is an Indian business tycoon who is the chairman and founder of Adani Group. According to Forbes, his personal wealth is estimated to be $7.1 billion as of September 2014. He founded The Adani Group in 1988 and today it is a globally integrated infrastructure player with businesses spanning coal trading, coal mining, oil & gas exploration, ports, multi-modal logistics, power generation, Agri Infrastructure, edible oil & transmission and gas distribution. With business experience of more than 33 years, Gautam Adani is an Indian entrepreneur who has led the Adani group from a modest background to create a $10.4 billion professionally managed empire in a relatively short period of time. He is a first generation entrepreneur. The Adani Group's business strategy has revolved heavily around excessive leverage and political patronage. As of 2015, they are one of India's most indebted business groups.
He has also been recognized for establishing the modern Mundra port which was selected as the best port in 2006 by Lloyds. Mundra Port is now India's largest commercial port to have achieved a new landmark of handling 100 million metric tonnes in FY 13-14.
Career:
Instead of joining his father’s textile unit in Ahmedabad, Gautam Adani moved to Mumbai at a young age of 18 with only a few hundred rupees. He started his career working as a diamond sorter at Mahindra Brothers for 2 years and then went on to set up his own diamond brokerage business in Mumbai, India. He has claimed that he made his first million within a year, at the age of 20, a big amount during the 1980s.
Mahasukh Adani, Gautam’s elder brother and an entrepreneur, called Gautam back to Ahmedabad to run his newly purchased plastic factory.
Soon, Gautam began commodity trading by importing Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC), a key raw material for manufacturing plastic.
Gautam Adani, referred to as 'Gautambhai', is known for his risk appetite. Former IIM-A director Bakul Dholakia, who is associated with the Adani group's educational and CSR initiatives said, "In terms of the risk taking appetite and risk absorption capacity there are very few who can match Gautam Adani. There are many who take large risks, but very few have the ability to face their adversity with courage and conviction".
Adani Group:
In 1988, he established Adani Exports Limited (now known as the Adani Enterprises Ltd), the flagship company of the Adani Group, that traded in a variety of power and agricultural commodities. The economic liberalization in 1991 fuelled the rapid growth of the business and the huge profitability of Adani Exports provided further capital for Gautam Adani to expand his business.
In 1993, the Government of Gujarat invited private companies to run the Mundra Port and in 1995 the contract was given to Adani Group. Today, Mundra Port is the largest Private Sector port in India, with capability of handling close to 80 million tonnes of cargo per annum.
Gautam Adani is also the founder and promoter of Adani Power Ltd (APL), a power business arm of Adani Group. Adani Power has thermal power plants with capacity of 4620 MW, the largest private thermal power producer of the country. It is also the largest solar power producer of India with capacity 40MW.
The group gives 3 per cent of its profits to the Adani Foundation. He is particularly proud of Adani Vidya Mandir, a school in Ahmedabad which admits only those children whose parents have an annual income less than Rs.1 lakh. The school is run by his wife Priti.
He is the President and CEO of Kaiser Francis Oil, an Anglo-American company based in Tulsa in Oklahoma. He is a graduate of the Harvard Business School.
Giorgio Armani was born in 11 July 1934 in the northern Italian town of Piacenza, where he was raised with his older sibling Sergio and younger sister Rosanna by his mom Maria Raimondi and father Ugo Armani. Is an Italian fashion designer. He previously came to see, working for Cerruti and afterward for some, others, including Allegri, Bagutta and Hilton. He framed his organization, Armani, in 1975, which ultimately broadened into music, game and luxury hotels. He is additionally the most open richest LGBT individual on the planet. According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Armani has a net worth of $9.53 billion in 2021.
Armani is a very private man, but he openly identifies as bisexual. In the end, he decided to take a different career path. She had a long-term relationship with her business partner, fashion designer Sergio Galeotti who died in 1985 of a heart attack.
After his stretch in the military, Armani got a new line of work as a window dresser at La Rinascente, a retail shop in Milan in 1957. He proceeded to turn into a dealer for the menswear division, in which limit he acquired significant involvement with the advertising part of the fashion industry. Armani set up an inventive relationship with the fashion business, described by the 1978 agreement with Gruppo Finanzario Tessile (GFT), which made it possible to deliver extravagance prepared to-wear in an manufacturing enviroment under the mindful management of the organization's creator. Armani is credited with spearheading red-carpet fashion. The Armani Hotel was opened in Burj Khalifa on 27th April, 2010, containing the last 39 stories of the super tall high rise in Dubai, United Arab Emirates; it has 160 visitor rooms and suites, and 144 homes.
He is the richest man in Great Britain. He is the 6th Duke of Westminster and he owns substantial number of properties. He is also the Chancellor of the University of Chester. He has estates and properties in Lancashire, Cheshire, Scotland, London, Spain and Canada.
Gerald L. Hassell (born 1952) is an American bank executive and is the Chairman and CEO of The Bank of New York Mellon.
Background:
Gerald Hassell joined the Bank of New York in 1973 when he was only 21 years old as a management trainee, and has held various positions in the credit and corporate banking divisions. He was involved in the formation and operation of the bank's Communications, Entertainment & Publishing Division, and had responsibility for strategic planning and administrative services. Prior to his appointment as president and director in 1998, during which he replaced Tom Renyi who went on to become CEO of the bank, Hassell was a senior executive vice president and chief commercial banking officer. He was also a member of the bank's Senior Policy Committee.
Education and other activities:
Hassell received a BA degree in Economics from Duke University in 1973 and an MBA in Finance from the New York University's Stern School of Business.
He is the former chairman of the Board of Visitors of The Fuqua School of Business at Duke University; a member of The Financial Services Roundtable and Financial Services Forum; a member of the board of Private Export Funding Corporation; and Vice Chairman of Big Brothers/Big Sisters of New York.
Philanthropy:
In 2012, Hassell and his wife, Anita-Agnes, donated $4 million to Duke University.
Giovanni Vincenzo "Gianni" Infantino was born into the world in 23rd March 1970 in Brig, Switzerland. He is a Swiss–Italian football head and the current leader of FIFA. He was chosen President of FIFA during the 2016 FIFA Extraordinary Congress on 26 February 2016. He was reappointed as FIFA President on 5 June 2019. On 10 January 2020 he was chosen an individual from the International Olympic Committee. He is a child of Italian migrant guardians from Calabria and Lombardy. He examined law at the University of Fribourg. He is conversant in Italian, Spanish, French, and German. Infantino likewise communicates in English, Portuguese and Arabic. Infantino is hitched to Lebanese Leena Al Ashqar; the couple have four youngsters (Alessia, Sabrina, Shanïa Serena and Dhalia Nora). He is a fanatic of the Italian club Inter Milan.
Infantino filled in as the Secretary General of the International Center for Sports Studies (CIES) at the University of Neuchâtel. Gianni Infantino began working with the UEFA in August 2000, and was delegated as the Director of UEFA's Legal Affairs and Club Licensing Division in January 2004. He became Deputy General Secretary of UEFA in 2007, and Secretary General of UEFA in October 2009. During his time there, UEFA presented Financial Fair Play and worked on business backing to more modest public affiliations. Infantino was an individual from FIFA's Reform Committee. On 26 October 2015, he got the sponsorship of the UEFA Executive Committee to represent the situation of president in the 2016 FIFA Extraordinary Congress. Around the same time, he affirmed his bid and presented the necessary revelations of help. He vowed to extend the FIFA World Cup to forty groups.
On 26 February 2016, he was chosen FIFA President for a time of three years. Swiss man Infantino holds double citizenship through his folks. With his political race, he turned into the main Italian to hold the Presidency of FIFA. Infantino was embroiled in the FIFA debasement embarrassment in records delivered in the 2016 Panama Papers. They show that UEFA attempted arrangements with arraigned figures where already they had denied any relationship. Infantino has expressed he is "alarmed" at the reports and that he has never actually managed the gatherings in question. In July 2016, Infantino was suspected to have broken the FIFA code of morals, and was met by the investigatory office of the FIFA Ethics Committee. In July 2020 further charges emerged when Infantino was blamed for having a mysterious gathering with Michael Lauber, the Attorney General of Switzerland. Lauber offered to leave after a court said he concealed the gathering and deceived bosses during an examination by his office into defilement encompassing FIFA. Infantino reacted to the charge by guarding himself guaranteeing "To meet with the head legal officer of Switzerland is totally real and it's completely lawful. It's no infringement of anything."
Grandhi Mallikarjuna Rao is a mechanical engineer, billionaire industrialist, and the founder chairman of GMR Group,a global infrastructure developer and operator based in India.Started in 1978, GMR Group is now present in 7 countries, active in energy, highways, large urban development and airports sectors, known for building and operating world class national assets.
Early life:
G M Rao was born on 14 July 1950, in Rajam, Srikakulam district in Andhra pradesh, India. He was born in an upper-middle-class family whose main business interests involved commodities trading and a small scale jewelry business started by his father in Rajam. After graduating from Andhra University, Rao joined the Andhra Pradesh Government as a junior engineer.
He soon entered the trading of commodities as his entrepreneurial nature made it difficult for him to stay content with a mere day job. After developing good relations with suppliers and customers in the business of commodities trading, he acquired a failing jute mill for at a bargain, this venture proved to be lucrative and allowed GM Rao is use leverage from local banks to acquire other assets. Eventually GM Rao divested his stake in a multitude of industries and started a bank named Vysya Bank in collaboration with ING.
Rao eventually diluted his stake in this business and decided to enter the business of energy and infrastructure with the proceeds from the sale. The entry into the power business allowed Rao to build what would become India leading infrastructure asset developer, as GMR's closest competitor, GVK, is 6 times smaller by market capitalization, making Rao the leader of India as an infrastructure asset developer by revenues, asset size, and market capitalization.
It is also widely accepted in top brass of the state of Andhra Pradesh that Rao's closeness with Chandra Babu Naidu allowed Rao to become the asset developer and owner for Hyderabad's International Airport Rajiv Gandhi International Airport.
Life and career records:
As per Forbes magazine, G M Rao is the richest Telugu man by sheer quantifiable wealth. He is known for his down to earth nature and simplicity despite his enormous fortune. According to media reports, GMR Group is one of India's most trusted and respect brands. GM Rao received the Economic Times Entrepreneur of the year Award in 2007.
Greg Brown (born 1960) is an American businessman. He serves as chairman and chief executive officer of Motorola Solutions.
Early life:
Greg Brown graduated from Rutgers University, where he received a Bachelor of Science in Economics in 1982.
Career:
Greg Brown is chairman and chief executive officer of Motorola Solutions, Inc. He joined Motorola in January 2003. In March 2007, Brown became president and COO and was elected to the company's board of directors. He then became CEO of Motorola in January 2008.
Prior to joining Motorola, he was chairman and CEO of Micromuse Inc. from 1999 to 2003.
Brown serves as chair of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, and is a member of the executive committee of the Business Roundtable. Additionally, Brown is a board member of the Economic Club of Chicago and the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.
He earned a bachelor's degree in economics and an honorary doctorate in humane letters from Rutgers University, and also serves as chairman on the University’s board of governors.
Brown is chairman of the Rutgers board and is a member of the finance committee for New Jersey Republican Governor Chris Christie's 2016 presidential bid.