Shantanu Narayen is CEO of Adobe Inc. He was born in May 27, 1963. Narayen grow up in Hyderabad, India, in a Telugu-talking family. Also, was the second child of a mother who showed American writing and a dad who ran a plastics organization. He went to Hyderabad Public School. He acquired a four year certification in gadgets and communication engineering from University College of Engineering, Osmania University in Hyderabad. In 1993 he got a MBA from the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley.
Narayen lives in Palo Alto, California. His interests include cricket and cruising. He met his wife Reni while at Bowling Green State University during the 1980s; she has a doctorate in clinical psychology. They have two children. He once represent India in sailing at an Asian Regatta. He, alongside Satya Nadella has likewise put resources into Major League Cricket to be facilitated by the American Cricket Enterprises (ACE).
In 1986 Narayen joined a Silicon Valley start-up called Measurex Automation Systems, which made PC control frameworks for automotive and gadgets clients. In November 2007, Adobe reported that Bruce Chizen would venture down as CEO powerful December 1, 2007, to be replaced by Narayen. He then, moved to Apple, where he was in senior administration positions from 1989 to 1995. After Apple, he filled in as head of work area and joint effort items for Silicon Graphics. In 1996 helped to establish Pictra Inc., an organization that spearheaded the idea of computerized photograph sharing over the Internet.
Full Name : Shantanu Narayen
Born : 27th - May - 1963
Zodiac Sign : Gemini
Birth Place : Hyderabad
Country : India
Education : Haas School of Business Berkeley, Osmania University Hyderabad, Bowling Green State University Bowling Green, Hyderabad Public School Telangana, University of California Berkeley
Occupation : CEO, Businessman
Industry : Technology
Adobe is one of those ubiquitous software technologies that are everywhere, running literally everything. From the YouTube videos to the simplest of mobile apps, everything needs a touch of Adobe. The brain behind Adobe, the man who runs the company, Shantanu Narayen is much like Adobe itself. Quiet, intelligent and everywhere. Shantanu isn’t just the CEO of Adobe; he is also the board member of Dell Inc, and the board member of University of California. In 2011, he was even appointed as the member of the management advisory board of the President of the United States, Barrack Obama. He’s everywhere - IT, Internet, Universities and then Politics. If that’s not ubiquitous, then what is?
Early Life:
Narayen was born in Hyderabad, the City of Pearls in India. His father owned a plastics business. He studied in the local Hyderabad Public School and then went on complete his graduation in electronics from the Osmania University. He then immigrated to the United States getting both his Management and Masters in Computer Science from University of Berkeley and Bowling Green University respectively. Up until then, Shantanu Narayen’s life was pretty much like any other Indian immigrant.
Career:
Just like most great people who belong to the software or internet field of work, Shantanu Narayen started off his career at the Apple. Post that, after a stint as a director of the Silicon Graphics, he co-founded Pictra Inc., a company that was one of the first internet photo sharing companies of the world. Soon after that, he took up a job as the Vice President in Adobe. It was while trying to sell his Pictra to Adobe that he landed a job. No, he did not succeed in selling the company to Adobe though. While working at Adobe, he quickly climbed the ladder and was made the CEO within a span of just ten years.
Ever since, he has been the heart and soul of Adobe making it spread literally everywhere. Narayen was responsible for landing whole 350 deals for the company. Really big media firms like Viacom, CBS and PBS all play their videos with Adobe flash player today and all this is thanks to Narayen. While Chizen was the CEO, he was still playing a major role in all the deals that the company made and kind of the success that it achieved ‘behind the scenes’ as Chizen would always say.
"If you can connect all the dots between what you see today and where you want to go, then it's probably not ambitious enough or aspiration enough." - Shantanu Narayen
Shantanu Narayen promises that Adobe has got a lot more to offer us in the future. There is software that could recognize the dress of the person in the video, their brand and their colour and then software that could recognize speech and turn it into text; are all in the offing from Adobe. And under Narayen, the astute and shrewd businessman and an engineer who knows exactly what is right for the company, surely, it is going to reach great heights.
Awards:
2010 - International Imaging Industry Association Leadership
Shiv Nadar (born 14 July 1945) is an Indian industrialist and philanthropist. He is the founder and chairman of HCL and the Shiv Nadar Foundation. As of 2015, his personal wealth is estimated at $13.7 Billion. Nadar founded HCL in the mid-1970s and transformed the IT hardware company into an IT Enterprise over the next three decades by constantly reinventing his company's focus. In 2008, Nadar was awarded Padma Bhushan for his efforts in the IT industry.Nadar, nicknamed by friends as Magus (Old Persian for Wizard), since mid-1990s has focused his efforts in developing the educational system of India through the Shiv Nadar Foundation. Shiv Nadar is the brother of famous tamil novelist Ramanichandran.
Early life and education:
Nadar was born in 1945 in Moolaipozhi village, about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) from Tiruchendur in Thoothukudi district (present ), Tamil Nadu, India. His parents were Sivasubramaniya Nadar and Vamasundari Devi.Nadar's mother, Vamasundari Devi, is the sister of S. P. Adithanar, founder of Dina Thanthi newspaper.
Nadar studied at Town Higher Secondary School, Kumbakonam. He got admission in the first form (Sixth Standard) on 29 June 1955 and continued his education in Town High School till 1 June 1957. Nadar received a pre-University degree in The American College, Madurai and degree in Electrical And Electronics Engineering from PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore.
Career:
Nadar began his career at Walchand group's Cooper Engineering in Pune in 1967. he soon gave it up to begin his own venture, in partnerships with several friends and colleagues. These partners were Ajai Chowdhry (Ex-Chairman, HCL Infosystems), Arjun Malhotra (CEO and Chairman, Headstrong), Subhash Arora, Yogesh Vaidya, S. Raman, Mahendra Pratap and DS Puri,
The initial enterprise which Nadar and his partners began was Microcomp, a company which focused on selling teledigital calculators in the Indian market. HCL was founded later, in 1976, with an investment of Rs. 187,000.
In 1980, HCL ventured into the international market with the opening of Far East Computers in Singapore to sell IT hardware. The venture reported Rs 1 million revenue in the first year and continued to address the Singapore operations.[14] Nadar remained the largest shareholder without retaining any management control.
Awards and accolades:
In 2008, Government of India awarded Nadar with Padma Bhushan, the third highest civilian award, for his contribution to IT industry.
In 2007, Madras University awarded him honorary doctorate degree (D Sc) for his contributions in promoting software technology. Nadar was also recognised as E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year 2007 (Services).
In 1995 he became the Dataquest IT Man of the year. In 2005 he was bestowed with CNBC Business Excellence Award. In 2006 received an Honorary Fellowship of All India Management Association-AIMA. In 2009 he was counted amongst Forbes 48 Heroes of Philanthropy in Asia Pacific. In 2010 received Dataquest Lifetime Achievement Award.
Sekharipuram Narayanan Subrahmanyan was born into the world in 16th March 1960 in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. He is the Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Larsen and Toubro. He assumed control over the reins from Mr Anil Manibhai Naik on 1 July 2017. S N Subrahmanyan is likewise the Vice Chairman on the Boards of LTI and L&T Technology Services, Non-Executive Chairman of L&T Metro Rail (Hyderabad) Limited and Vice Chairman of the Indian global IT and rethinking organization, Mindtree procured March 2019. In February 2021, he was named Chairman of the National Safety Council (NSC) for a very long time by the Union Ministry of Labor and Employment. In this job, SNS will direct the NSC, which has a significant part to play to guarantee security in work environments under the new Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020 (OSH Code, 2020).
S N Subrahmanyan's dad, late Sri S Narayanan was a General Manager with the Indian Railways. He learned at Vidya Mandir Senior Secondary School, Mylapore in Chennai and finished his graduation in Civil Engineering from Regional Engineering College Kurukshetra (Presently National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra or NIT Kurukshetra), Kurukshetra University in 1982. He sought after a Masters in Business Administration from Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Pune, the University of Poona followed by an Executive Management Program from the London Business School. S N Subrahmanyan is hitched to Mrs Meena Subrahmanyan, a Postgraduate in Economics and a Gold Medalist from Stella Maris College, Madras University. The couple have two children, Sujay and Suraj. He likewise has a distinct fascination for Western Classical music and cricket.
S N Subrahmanyan joined the ECC Division of Larsen and Toubro in 1984 and started working with pioneers like Cheyur Ramaswamy Ramakrishnan (previous Joint Managing Director, L&T), A Ramakrishna (previous President and Deputy Managing Director, L&T) and K V Rangaswami (previous President, ECC). In July 2011, S N Subrahmanyan was selected as full-time Director on the L&T Board and assigned as Member of the Board and Senior Executive Vice President (Construction). In October 2015, he was assigned Deputy Managing Director and President, L&T. In 2017, he was elevated to the part of Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Larsen and Toubro (L&T) by the organization's directorate. He was Ranked 36th in the '2014 Construction Week Power 100. He was Featured in the Top 50 Utilities Leaders In The GCC 2021.
Sourav Chandidas Ganguly was born into the world in eighth July 1972 in Calcutta. Sourav Gangopadhyay tenderly known as Dada; which means is "senior sibling" in Bengali, He is an Indian cricket executive, analyst and previous public cricket crew chief who is the 39th and current president and CEO of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). He is prevalently respected as Maharaja of Indian Cricket. During his playing profession, Ganguly settled himself as one of the world's driving batsmen and furthermore quite possibly the best chiefs of the Indian public cricket crew. While batting, he was particularly productive through the off side, acquiring himself the moniker God of the Off Side for his rich stroke play square of the wicket and through the covers. As a cricketer he played as a left-gave opening batsman and was skipper of the Indian public group. He was chosen as a leader of the BCCI in 2019. also, President of the Editorial Board with Wisden India.[9] Before being chosen as the President of BCCI, he was the President of Cricket Association of Bengal, overseeing body for cricket in West Bengal, India.
Sourav Ganguly is the most youthful child of Chandidas and Nirupa Ganguly. Chandidas maintained a prospering print business and was probably the most extravagant man in the city. Ganguly had a lavish youth and was nicknamed the 'Maharaja', which means the 'Incomparable King'. Ganguly's dad Chandidas Ganguly kicked the bucket at 73 years old on 21 February 2013 after a long sickness. Since the most loved game for individuals of Calcutta was football, Ganguly was at first drawn to the game. Notwithstanding, scholastics came in the middle of his adoration for sports and Nirupa was not exceptionally strong of Ganguly taking up cricket or some other game as a profession. On 2 January 2021, Ganguly whined of chest torment while practicing and was subsequently determined to have three obstructed coronary veins which had prompted a gentle heart failure. He went through essential angioplasty for one of the blockages around the same time.
Following a productive Ranji season in 1990–91,[32] Ganguly scored three runs in his One Day International (ODI) debut for India against the West Indies in 1992.[19][33] He was dropped quickly since he was seen to be "egotistical" and his mentality towards the game was straightforwardly addressed. It was supposed that Ganguly would not convey drinks for his partners, remarking that it was not his responsibility to take care of along these lines, later denied by him. Thus, he was taken out from the group. Weeks after his fruitful visit through England, Ganguly absconded with youth darling Dona Roy. The lady and husband to be's family were nemeses by then and this news created a commotion between them. Nonetheless, the two families accommodated and a proper wedding was held in February 1997.[23][43] Same year, Ganguly scored his lady ODI century by hitting 113, went against to Sri Lanka's group complete of 238. Soon thereafter, he won four back to back man of the match grants, in the Sahara Cup with Pakistan; the second of these was won after he took five wickets for 16 runs off 10 overs, his best bowling in an ODI. After a desolate spat Test cricket his structure returned toward the year's end with three centuries in four Tests, all against Sri Lanka, and two of these elaborate stands with Sachin Tendulkar of over 250.[19]
During the third last of the Independence Cup at Dhaka in January 1998, India effectively pursued down 315 off 48 overs, and Ganguly won the Man of the Match award.[44] In March 1998 he was important for the Indian group that crushed Australia; in Kolkata, he took three wickets having opened the bowling with his medium speed.
Søren Kristian Toubro (27 February 1906 – 4 March 1982) was a Danish engineer who co-founded Larsen & Toubro, an India-based conglomerate.
Early days in India
Seeing opportunity in ship repair during wartime, Larsen and Toubro formed a new company called Hilda Ltd. Around this time, L&T also started two repair and fabrication shops. The internment of German engineers who were supposed to build a soda ash plant for the Tatas provided L&T another new opportunity.
In 1944, Larsen and Toubro established Engineering Construction & Contracts (ECC). L&T started collaborating with international companies around this time. In 1945, L&T signed an agreement with the Caterpillar Tractor Company of USA for marketing earthmoving equipment. L&T also started representing British manufacturers of equipment used to manufacture a variety of products including biscuits, glass, hydrogenated oils and soaps.
At the end of World War II, the war-surplus Caterpillar equipment was available in bulk at low prices. However, L&T lacked the money to purchase them. Therefore, Larsen and Toubro decided to raise additional equity capital, and as a result, Larsen & Toubro Private Limited was established on 7 February 1946. After India gained independence in 1947, L&T set up offices in Calcutta, Madras and New Delhi. In 1948, L&T acquired 55 acres (22 ha) of undeveloped land in the Powai suburb of Mumbai.
Larsen and Toubro gradually transformed L&T into a large business house with diverse interests. A 2006 article in The Hindu described Toubro as follows:
A workaholic, he expected the same of others. A hard taskmaster with a schoolmasterly attitude to training he may have been, but the young he mentored still remember the lessons he taught: that no effort was too great to ensure customer satisfaction, that there must be attention to detail in the quest for perfection, and that there must be pride in whatever was being done.
Soren K Toubro served as the director of L&T from 1946 to 1981, and retired from active management in 1962–63. He continued to serve on the L&T and ECC board of directors till 1981.
He owns Delton AG, an umbrella corporation that manages all his holdings. Among them is a 17 percent stake in BMW. He also used to be connected with Gemphus International, a digital security company. He also served on the boards of Dresdner Bank AG and Gerling Konzern Allgemeine Versicherungs AG.
Stephan Winkelmann was born in 18 October 1964. As a little youngster, Winkelmann moved with his parents from Berlin to Rome, as his dad functioned as an ambassador at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Is a German chief and has been President of Bugatti Automobiles since January 1, 2018. And also President and CEO of Automobili Lamborghini S.p.A. since December 1, 2020. Stephan Winkelmann lived there for just about 20 years and moved on from the neighbourhood German school. He then, at that started study political science, graduating with a M. A. in Munich in 1991. During his investigations, Winkelmann served for a very long time in the paratroopers of the German Armed Forces in Calw, Nagold, and Altenstadt and arrived at the position of lieutenant of the save.
He started his expert profession in 1991 at the German monetary administrations supplier MLPBeginning in 1993, Winkelmann entered the car business, working first in Munich as a salesman for Mercedes-Benz lastly, from 1994 to 2004, for Fiat and Alfa Romeo, Lancia, and Fiat Professional, individually. There, Winkelmann held marketing and deals management positions, first as head of Alfa Romeo Germany, then, at that point as head of marketing for Fiat's southern region. In January 2005, Stephan Winkelmann joined the Volkswagen Group and took over as President and CEO of Automobili Lamborghini in Sant'Agata Bolognese.
Stephen Allen Schwarzman (born February 14, 1947) is an American business magnate and financier. He is the chairman and CEO of the Blackstone Group, a global private equity and financial advisory firm he established in 1985 with former US Secretary of Commerce Pete Peterson. His personal fortune is estimated at $12.9 billion, according to Forbes. As of 2015, Forbes ranked Schwarzman at 100th on its World's Billionaires List.
Early life and education:
Schwarzman was raised in a Jewish family in Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania, the son of Arline and Joseph Schwarzman. His father owned Schwarzman's, a former dry-goods store in Philadelphia.
Schwarzman attended the Abington School District in suburban Philadelphia and graduated from Abington Senior High School in 1965. He attended Yale University during the same period as George W. Bush, one year behind him (both were in the Skull and Bones society) and graduated in 1969. He then went on to Harvard Business School and graduated in 1972.
Career:
Schwarzman's first job in financial services was with Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, a now defunct investment bank. After business school, Schwarzman started working at the investment bank Lehman Brothers, where he reached the rank of managing director at age 31. He eventually became the head of Lehman Brothers' global mergers and acquisitions team. In 1985, Schwarzman and his boss Peter Peterson started Blackstone, which originally focused on mergers and acquisitions.
When Blackstone went public in June 2007, it revealed in a securities filing that Schwarzman had earned about $398.3 million in fiscal 2006. He ultimately received $684 million selling part of his Blackstone stake in the IPO, keeping a stake then worth $9.1 billion.
In 2007, Schwarzman was listed among Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in The World.
Schwarzman has served as an adjunct professor at the Yale School of Management and was chairman of the board of Trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts from 2004 to 2010.
In June 2007, Schwarzman described his view on financial markets with the statement: "I want war, not a series of skirmishes... I always think about what will kill off the other bidder."
In August 2010, Schwarzman compared the Obama administration's plan to raise carried interest taxes to Hitler's invasion of Poland in 1939, a comment for which Schwarzman later apologized.
Among Blackstone's largest investments were SeaWorld Parks, in 2009. SeaWorld Parks were the focus of the 2013 film Blackfish, a documentary on Killer Whale attacks at these parks and the ethics of keeping them captive. When asked about the film, Schwarzman said on record that SeaWorld trainer Dawn Brancheau should be blamed for her own death, claiming that the veteran animal trainer broke multiple safety rules before she was pulled into a tank and killed by a six-ton orca in February 2010. Blackstone said in a written statement that Schwarzman "misspoke" in response to the question about Blackfish. The firm said its chief executive had not anticipated a question about the film and had not been briefed on the subject. The firm said Schwarzman does not plan to go back on CNBC to correct the record on air. SeaWorld, for its part, said unequivocally that Brancheau bore no blame. "Dawn was one of the world's most skilled and experienced marine mammal trainers. Her dedication to safety was among the many reasons she was so respected by her colleagues at SeaWorld and within the worldwide animal training community," the company said in a written statement. "We have never said and do not believe that she was at fault for the events of February 24, 2010."
In 2014, Schwarzman was named as one of Bloomberg's 50 Most Influential people of the year.
Philanthropy:
In 2004, Schwarzman donated a new football stadium to Abington Senior High School—the Stephen A. Schwarzman Stadium.
On March 11, 2008 Schwarzman announced that he contributed $100 million toward the expansion of the New York Public Library, for which he serves as a trustee. The central reference building on 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue was renamed The Stephen A. Schwarzman Building.
On May 11, 2015 Peter Salovey, the President of Yale University, announced that Schwarzman contributed $150 million to fund a campus center in the university's historic "Commons" dining facility.
Stephen B. "Steve" Burke (born August 14, 1958) is an American businessman. He serves as the executive vice president of Comcast, and as president and chief executive officer (CEO) of NBCUniversal.
Early life:
Steve Burke is an Irish Catholic. His father, Daniel B. Burke was a former president of Capital Cities Communications, former owner of the ABC network. He graduated from Colgate University, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and earned an MBA from the Harvard Business School.
Business:
Burke joined The Walt Disney Company in January 1986, where he helped to develop and found The Disney Stores. In 1992, he moved to Euro Disney S.A., where, as President and CEO, he helped to lead a comprehensive restructuring effort. He later served as President of ABC Broadcasting.
In 1998, he joined Comcast as President of Comcast Cable. Since then, Comcast has become the largest cable company, largest residential internet service provider, third largest phone company in America and launched a wireless business. He led Comcast to leadership in multi-platform video entertainment distribution, including the Company's industry changing video on demand platform and online video offerings. He has been praised for leading the highly successful integration of AT&T Broadband with Comcast.
He currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer of NBCUniversal. He oversees the company's valuable portfolio of news, sports, and entertainment networks, a premier motion picture company, significant television production operations, a leading television stations group, and theme parks. Burke assumed this role in January 2011, upon the closing of Comcast and General Electric’s joint venture merging the assets of NBCUniversal with Comcast's programming assets. He previously served as Chief Operating Officer of Comcast Corporation, where he was a driving force in its growth from a cable industry leader to one of the nation’s leading providers of entertainment, information and communication products and services.
He serves on the Boards of Directors of Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase. He also serves on the Board of Trustees of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.