Deepak Parekh

Deepak Parekh
(Chairman of HDFC)
Deepak Parekh is the Chairman of HDFC, the India's leading housing finance company. A pioneer in mortgage finance, he has enabled scores of Indian middle class people owning their houses or apartments through affordable loans.
A chartered accountant, Deepak Parekh began his career with Ernst & Young Management Consultancy Services in New York. After returning to India, he worked with Grindlays Bank and also Chase Manhattan Bank as its assistant representative for South Asia. Deepak Parekh joined HDFC in 1978. He was promoted as its Managing Director in 1985 and appointed its Chairman in 1993. He is instrumental in making the HDFC a premier housing finance institution in the country. Deepak Parekh is also the Non-Executive Chairman of Infrastructure Development Finance Company Ltd (IDFC), a Government of India enterprise for infrastructure projects in 1997. He is also the Non-Executive Chairman of Glaxo India Ltd & Burroughs Wellcome (India) Ltd and on the Board of Castrol BP India; Hindustan Lever; Siemens Ltd, Mahindra & Mahindra and Indian Hotels Company. He is also a non-executive, independent Director of SingTel.
Deepak Parekh has been a member of various Committees set up by the Government of India. He was appointed Chairman of the high level expert committee, formed to recommend measures for strengthening the Unit Scheme – 1964. The Reserve Bank of India appointed him Chairman of the Advisory Group for Securities Market Regulation, which was tasked to compare the level of adherence to international standards in India with that in other countries. He was also Chairman of the Expert Committee constituted by the Ministry of Power to look into the reform efforts in the power sector.
Deepak Parekh has won several awards including Businessman of the Year 1996 by Business India and the JRD Tata Corporate Leadership Award by All India Management Association (AIMA). He was the first recipient of the Qimpro Platinum Award for Quality for his contributions to the services sector and the youngest recipient of the prestigious Corporate Award for Life Time Achievement by the Economic Times. He was also conferred Padma Bhushan by the Government of India.

Oprah Winfrey

Oprah Winfrey

Early Life-:
Oprah was born in Mississippi in January 29,1954. As a child, she was raised by her grandmother on a farm, who many years later described how little Oprah used to interview her dolls and farm animals. Her grandmother made sure Oprah knew how to read and write from an early age. From age six, till she entered her teens, Oprah lived with her mother, who worked as a maid, and thus, could not devote much attention towards Oprah. Suffering from abuse and neglection, Oprah ran away from home, and was later sent to live with her father, Vernon Winfrey. Vernon was more particular about Oprah's education and conduct, and wanted his daughter to make the best of her life. Later, she attended Tennessee State university where she majored in Speech Communication and Performing Arts.

Career-:
Oprah's career began when she started working for WVOL radio, Nashville. Two years later, she moved on to WTVF-TV, Nashville as a reporter and anchor.

In 1976, she joined WJZ-TV news in Baltimore as a co-anchor for the six o'clock news. Two years later, she began co-hosting WJZ's local talk show 'People are talking'. It was then that her talent as a talk show host came to light.

Next, Oprah moved to Chicago in January 1984, to host WLS-TV's, poorly rated, local talk show “AM Chicago”. Her skills as a talk show host quickly propelled the shows ranking to top slot. The shows format was expanded to one hour and rechristened 'The Oprah Winfrey Show'.
The went national in September of 1986, and quickly became the highest rated talk show in history, with accolades and TRPs that were off the charts. Oprah became the youngest person to receive the International Radio and Television Society's 'Broadcaster of the Year' award.
In 1985, Oprah gained much critical acclaim for her role in Steven Spielberg's movie 'Sofia', an adaptation of Alice Walker's novel, 'The Color Purple'. She was nominated for an Oscar, as well as the Golden Globe, in the category of Best Actress. Later, she dazzled audiences once again with her performance in 'Native Son'.
In 1986, Oprah formed HARPO Productions Inc, a film and television production house. Today, HARPO Entertainment Group consists of HARPO Productions, Inc., HARPO Films and HARPO Video, Inc. By October 1988, HARPO gained control of 'The Oprah Winfrey Show', making Oprah the first woman to ever own and produce her own talk show. HARPO produced several miniseries and movies starring Oprah.
The 2004 Nobel Peace Prize Concert was hosted by Oprah and Tom Cruise. There were musical performances by Cyndi Lauper, Andrea Bocelli, Joss Stone, Chris Botti, Diana Krall, Tony Bennett and others. The concert was broadcast in the United States on December 23, 2004, by E!.

As well as hosting and appearing on television shows, Winfrey co-founded the women's cable television network Oxygen. She is also the president of Harpo Productions (Oprah spelled backwards).

Accolades-:
Time magazine featured Oprah Winfrey in its list of 'the 100 Most Influential People of the 20th Century'. She received a Lifetime Achievement Award in 1988 from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Oprah's Book Club selections have become a huge hit, and in 1999, she was presented with the National Book Foundation's 50th anniversary gold medal for her service to books and authors. As per Forbes, Oprah, who pocketed $250 million between June 2006 and June 2007, is the first African-American woman to have become a billionaire, the richest African-American ever, as well as the highest paid entertainer in Tinsel town.

Books and magazines-:

Winfrey on the cover of O, The Oprah Magazine.Winfrey publishes two magazines: O, The Oprah Magazine and O at Home. She has co-authored five books; at the announcement of her future weight loss book (to be co-authored with her personal trainer Bob Greene), it was said that her undisclosed advance fee had broken the record for the world's highest book advance fee, previously held by former U.S. President Bill Clinton for his autobiography My Life. In 2002 Fortune called O, the Oprah Magazine the most successful start-up ever in the industry.and although its circulation had declined by more than 10 percent (to 2.4 million) from 2005 to 2008, the January 2009 issue was the best selling issue since 2006.The audience for her magazine is considerably more upscale than for her TV show, earning US $63,000 a year (well above the median for U.S. women).

Future projects-:
On January 15, 2008, Winfrey and Discovery Communications announced plans to change Discovery Health Channel into a new channel called OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network. OWN will debut at an unspecified time in 2010. It was scheduled to launch in 2009, but has since been delayed. It will be available in more than 70 million homes because of the present position of Discovery Health Channel. This was a non-cash deal with Winfrey turning control of her website Oprah.com to Discovery Communications.

Donald Trump

Donald Trump

Early Life-:

Donald Trump, popularly known as 'The Donald', was born in New York in June 14,1946. After completing his high school education at the New York Military academy with, Trump attended Fordhand University for two years, after which he transferred to Wharton School at UPENN. From there, he graduated in 1968, with a Bachelor of Science in economics and focus on finance, before joining his family's real estate business.

Family-:
Trump's mother Mary Anne was born on the Isle of Lewis. She left Tong, Scotland in 1930 aged 18 for a holiday in New York, met a local builder, and stayed. Born in Queens, New York, United States, Trump has four siblings - two brothers (Fred Jr., who is deceased, and Robert) and two sisters (Maryanne and Elizabeth). His older sister, Maryanne Trump Barry, is a federal appeals court judge and the mother of David Desmond, who is a neuropsychologist and writer.

In 1977, Trump married Ivana Zelničkova (later Ivana Trump) and together they have three children: Donald, Jr., Ivanka, and Eric. They were divorced in 1992. In 1993, he married Marla Maples and together they had one child, Tiffany. They divorced on June 8, 1999. In a February 2008 interview on ABC's Nightline Trump commented on his ex-wives by saying, "I just know it's very hard for them (Ivana and Marla) to compete because I do love what I do. I really love it."

On April 26, 2004, he proposed to Melania Knauss (Melanija Knavs in Slovenian, later Melania Knauss-Trump) from Slovenia. Trump and Knauss (who is 24 years Trump's junior) married on January 22, 2005, at Bethesda by the Sea Episcopal Church on the island of Palm Beach, Florida, followed by a reception at Trump's Mar-A-Lago estate. Neither Melania nor Trump is an Episcopalian.Melania gave birth to a boy named Barron William Trump, Trump's fifth child. Trump became a grandfather when son Donald Jr. and his wife Vanessa welcomed a daughter named Kai Madison. Trump became a grandfather of two after Donald Jr. and Vanessa had their second child and first son, Donald John Trump III.

Career-:

Donald claims his father to have been his mentor since he was a boy, and credits him for helping Donald develop a sound business sense since his younger days. His father, in turn, was impressed with his son's business prowess and stated "everything he seems to touch turns to gold".

At first, Donald concentrated on his father's preferred field of middle class rental housing, but when he moved to Manhattan in 1971, Trump recognized huge economic opportunities in the city. Having already gained the necessary business skills in real estate business, while working under his fathers wing, Donald shifted his attention on the Manhattan real estate scenario. He started by landing rights to develop the old Penn Central yards on West Side and then with help of certain tax abatements, invested in developing the Commodore Hotel into a new Grand Hyatt. Trump went on to own some of the most prestigious properties in the city, such as the Trump Casino, Trump International Hotel, Trump Marina Hotel and Casino, Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort and Trump Tower. Trump pays special attention to branding. His properties have the Trump name displayed prominently and the "T" symbol is placed all over their important areas.

By 1989, recession left Trump unable to meet loan payments. He began financing his further developments with high interest bonds, in hopes of making enough money in time to be able to sustain the business. But all didn't go as planned and in 1990s, Trump suddenly faced bankruptcy, and was $900 million in personal debt, while his business faced a further debt that went into billions. Trump was forced to reduce his holdings and exchange stock with bond holders in return for surrendering debt. But by 2005, the company re emerged from bankruptcy, rechristened Trump Entertainment Resorts Holdings, and has several projects underway.


Besides Trump Empire-:

Besides real estate, Trump's interests include entertainment, gaming and sports. He is a co-owner of three very famous beauty pageants, which are, Miss Universe, Miss USA and Miss Teen USA. He has also authored several best-sellers, including The Art of the Deal, The Art of Survival and How to get Rich.

He has appeared in several television shows and is a prominent socialite, appearing in various media events. In 2004, Donald starred in his reality TV show, titled 'The Apprentice'. The programme has the selected candidates pit their business abilities against others, with the ultimate objective of becoming Trump's apprentice. They would be rewarded with a high level managerial job in one of Trump's ventures. The programmes ratings went off the charts, making Trump an instant world-wide celebrity among millions of viewers. The programme also helped him land a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

During the 2000 elections in USA, Trump publicly announced his inclination towards running for President, though he later decided against it.

Trump has been an a member of various civic and charitable organizations, and is known to be a generous philanthropist.

In 2005 he formed the Trump University, which teaches business students online. Courses focus on real estate investing, being a successful entrepreneur, business management, and career success.

Golf course-:

Trump testified in June 2008, as first witness at the Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre (AECC) inquiry (ordered by Scottish ministers) after an Aberdeenshire Council committee denied his plans to build a £1billion golf resort north of Aberdeen, at the Menie Estate. Environmental groups and local campaigners opposed the bid in which part of the course would be built on sand dunes that are a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI), though business leaders supported the would-be golf course.Trump stated the site "had the potential to be the greatest golf course in the world."

Hobbies-:

Trump is an enthusiastic golfer, with a low single-figure handicap. He is a member of the Winged Foot Golf Club in Mamaroneck, New York, and also plays regularly at the other courses he owns and operates.[34]

Vineet Nayar

(CEO-HCL Technologies)

Vineet Nayar was born in 1962.

Education-:
Nayar received his engineering bachelor's degree from G.B. Pant University in 1983. Nayar received his business management degree from XLRI, Jamshedpur in 1985 and joined HCL as Senior Management Trainee (SMT) from campus.

Early career-:

Vineet started his journey with HCL in 1985 after completing his engineering and management degree. After spending seven years of his career as engineer, product manager, sales & marketing head at HCL, Vineet founded HCL Comnet in 1994 . [1]

It was one of HCL’s most innovative and successful businesses to provide IT infrastructure and networking services.

He became the President in April 2005 and later CEO in October 2007 of HCL Technologies. Under his leadership, HCL Technologies has made it to the fastest growing “Business Week Top 100 Tech companies” (2007). IDC recognizes Vineet as having “the most cohesive and articulate vision” in the IT services sector.

Fortune Magazine has articulated his leadership style as “The World’s Most Modern Management” and the London Business School calls him “the leader of organizational Innovation”.


"American graduates are unemployable"

In June 2009, Vineet Nayar created quite an uproar by commenting that American tech graduates are unemployable. He made this comment while talking to some technology enthusiasts and officials in New York city. When an official wanted to know why HCL, a $2.5 billion (revenue) company with more than 3,000 people across 21 offices in 15 states, wasn't hiring more people in his state, Vineet Nayar's short answer was: because most American college grads are "unemployable." Mr. Nayar's comment was met with some angry remarks in newspapers[2] and blogs.[3] Mr Nayar clarified his stand on the remarks in his blog[4]

Brijmohan Lall Munjal

Brijmohan Lall Munjal

Dr. Brijmohan Lall Munjal is an Indian businessman and the founder of The Hero Group which owns Hero Honda Motors in India and is one of the richest people in India.

Early life-:

Brijmohan Lall Munjal was born in 1923 at Kamalia in unpartitioned India. Kamalia is now in Pakistan. He was from a simple middle-class Hindu family, After completing his formal education he worked at the Army Ordnance Factory, before moving his base to India after partition



Career-:

In 1944, when Brijmohan was 20, his family sensed partition, So Brijmohan along with his elder brothers Dayanand Munjal, Satyanand Munjal and his younger brother Om Prakash Munjal came to India and settled in Amritsar. The brothers initially started a business by supplying components to manufacturers of bicycles in and around Amritsar. After the partition in 1947 the Munjal family completely shifted their base from Pakistan to Ludhiana.

At that point and still today Ludhiana was an important destination for manufacturing and industry hub of bicycles and textiles. Slowly they expanded their distribution network and by early 1950s they were supplying components of bicycles throughout India.

Hero Cycles Ltd-:

In 1954 Hero Cycles Ltd moved up the value chain by making a shift from supplying to manufacturing. They started manufacturing handlebars, front forks and chains. In 1956, the Punjab Government issued tender notices for twelve new industrial licenses to make bicycles in Ludhiana. Brijmohan Lall Munjal and his brothers participated in the bid and won the contract. Hero Cycles was registered as a large-scale industrial unit. The capital was partly financed by the Government of Punjab.

In 1961 Rockman Cycles Industries was established to manufacture bicycle chains and hubs. Under his leadership Hero Cycles was the first company to export bicycles in large scale. In 1975 they had earned the distinction of Largest bicycle manufactures in India. By 1986 Hero Cycles Limited entered the Guinness Book of Records as the largest manufacturers of bicycles in the world.

Hero Honda-:

Before entering into a joint venture with Honda Motors, Dr. Munjal started the Majestic Auto Limited and started to manufactured Hero Majestic Moped. To manufacture motor cycles in 1984 the Hero Group started a joint venture with Hero Honda. Hero Group expanded so big that by 2002 they had sold 86 million bicycles producing 16000 bicycles a day.

Awards and recognition

· Awarded Businessman of the Year in 1994 by business magazine "Business India"
· Received the National Award for outstanding contribution to the Development of Indian Small Scale Industry in 1995.
· In 1999 Featured in Most Admired CEO List of the magazine "Business Barons".
· Received The Distinguished Entrepreneurship Award from The PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry in 1997.
· Xavier Labour Relations Institute (XLRI), Conferred Sir Jehangir Ghandy Medal for Industrial Peace in 2000.
· Featured as Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the year in 2001.
· Received The Lifetime Achievement award for "Management" from All India Management Association in 2003.
· Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi conferred him with a Doctrate; degree of "Doctors of letters" Honoris Causa in October 2004.
· Awarded "Padma Bhushan"in March 2005 for his contribution to Trade and Industry in 2005.

AMAR BOSE

AMAR BOSE- THE INVENTOR
Born: November 2, 1929
Achievements: Founder of Bose Corporation
Featured in 2006 Forbes Billionaires list
Net Worth: $1.5 billion
Amar Bose, Founder and Chairman of the Bose Corporation, was born November 2, 1929. He is known for his pioneering work in the field of acoustics. He was born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His father, Nani Gopal Bose, was a revolutionary freedom fighter who emigrated from Kolkata to escape British prosecution.
He did his schooling from Abington Senior High School and graduated with a BS in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the early 1950s. He also completed his Ph. D. from MIT.
He founded Bose Corporation in 1964. In 1968, he invented the 901(R) Direct/Reflecting (R) speaker system. Bose’s 901(R) speakers remained an industry benchmark for 25 years. Today, the Bose Corporation is a name for quality which manufactures top-end products for homes, cars professional audio systems and conducts basic research in acoustics, automotive systems and other areas. He was also a professor of Electrical Engineering at MIT for many years until he retired in 2000.
Amar Bose has over two-dozen patents to his name. He has earned many awards including the Inventor of the Year in 1997 and the Distinguished Service Citation in 2007. His estimated net worth is $1.5 billion.

Aroon Purie

Aroon Purie is an Indian businessman, and the founder & editor in chief of India Today, a leading newsmagazine of India. He has served as editor of the magazine since founding it in 1975. India Today is printed in several languages other than English.
Early life and education
Purie was educated at the Doon School, as were two editors of India Today (Suman Dubey and Inderjit Bhadwar). He earned a BSc Economics from the London School of Economics in 1965. He is married to Rekha Purie,a former model. He has 3 children, Kalli Purie, Koel Purieand Ankur Purie. His brother-in-law is the famous heart surgeon, Dr. Naresh Trehan.
Aroon Purie, is the Founding Editor and Editor-in-Chief of India Today and Chief Executive of the India Today Group. He is also the Managing Director of Thomson Press (India) Limited and the Chairman and Managing Director of TV Today. A graduate in Economics from the London School of Economics and a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accounts (England & Wales) he is responsible for the strategic direction of the company. He started his career in 1970 at Thomson Press as Production Controller and still continues to be its guiding force. Purie has greatly contributed to journalism in India, he entered the publishing business and founded the India Today Group. India Today is India's most read news publication with a readership of 15.4 million across all Indian editions. The India Today Group also publishes several other magazines, some of which have become market leaders in their respective segments. The India Today Group has ventured into various businesses and launched magazines and products such as Business Today , Education Today , Music Today , Care Today , India Today Plus , Travel Plus , and many more titles.

He was conferred, Padma Bhushan - a prestigious civilian award, by the Government of India for his contribution to Indian journalism. He has received numerous other honors, these include the B.D. Goenka Award for Excellence in Journalism (1988), 'Journalist of the Year 1990' by Indian Federation of Small and Medium Newspapers, The G.K. Reddy Memorial Award for Outstanding Contribution to Journalism (1993-1994), the Hall of Fame Award from the Advertising Club of Calcutta (2002). and the NT Award for Lifetime achievement from the www.Indiatelevision.com (2008)
He is associated with several prestigious councils, amongst them, as Member, Council of Management, Audit Bureau of Circulations (Chairman, 2000-2001). He is on the Executive Committee of The Editors' Guild of India, Council of Management All India Management Association (Special Invitee). He was also Chairman, CII National Committee on Media (2001-2002).

Steve Ballmer

Steve Ballmer is the Chief Executive Officer of the Microsoft Corporation, one of the world's leading software development companies. Microsoft is best known for its Windows operating system for personal computing devices and the Microsoft Office Suite.
Steven Anthony Ballmer was born in Detroit, Michigan on March 24th, 1956. His father was a Swiss immigrant who worked as a manager at the Ford Motor Company and his mother was a Jewish American. Raised with academic values, Ballmer graduated from Detroit County Day School in 1973 (where he now sits on the board of directors). While there he managed the school's basketball team and graduated as valedictorian.
With a perfect score of 800 in the mathematical section of the SATs, he was accepted into Harvard where he befriended Bill Gates, the man who eventually created Microsoft. Although Ballmer was interested in business and Gates prone to computer programming, they seemed to make a good match.
While in college, Steve Ballmer sold ads for the Harvard Crimson, managed the football team, and worked on the Harvard Advocate. After graduating magna cum laude in 1977 with a degree in applied mathematics, Ballmer joined the staff at Procter & Gamble to work as an assistant product manager. Despite his success working on publicity campaigns such as Duncan Hines Brownie Mix, Ballmer decided to return to school for his MBA after two years with the company. He quickly enrolled in Stanford Graduate School of Business.
After his first year at Stanford, Steven Ballmer decided to head up to Seattle to take a job with Microsoft for the summer. At the time Microsoft had only 23 employees and a total of $12.5 in annual sales. After a summer of work, Gates managed to convince Ballmer to quit school and work for Microsoft full time. They agreed on a salary of $50,000 and 7% ownership of the business. Ballmer never went back to Stanford.
As the first business manager hired by Bill Gates, Ballmer took control of employee pay scales and managed to double the number of employees. While Gates continued to work on the evolution of the software industry, Ballmer focused on building a greater financial structure for the company.
Over time Steve Ballmer headed various divisions within the company such as Operating Systems Development, Sales and Support, and Operations. With his strong work ethic and equally intensive management, Gates promoted Ballmer to President in July of 1998. Two years later he was named Chief Executive Officer when Gates resigned from the position. Although Bill Gates still maintains control over the "technological vision", Ballmer now controls the overall operations of Microsoft.
Ballmer sold of 8.3% of his stocks in 2003 but still maintains control over 4% of Microsoft shares. The same year saw Ballmer replacing Microsoft's employee stock option program with a stock grant program.
Steve Ballmer, a Detroit Pistons fan (NBA basketball team), has been happily married to Connie Snyder since 1990 and is the proud father of two sons. He is described as a funny, focused, passionate, sincere, and dynamic man that has infused Microsoft with energetic leadership and vision over his time with the company.

Aditya Mittal

Aditya Mittal


Name: Aditya Mittal

Gender: Male

Date of birth: 1974

Country: United Kingdom


Aditya Mittal is a member of the Board of Directors and President and Chief Financial Officer of the world's largest steel firm Arcelor Mittal, which is controlled by his father Lakshmi Mittal, who was ranked the fourth richest person in the world by Forbes in 2008. He has a Bachelor's Degree of Science in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in the United States, from which he graduated magna cum laude in 1996. He worked for a short time in the mergers and acquisitions department at investment bank Credit Suisse First Boston. He joined the family business in 1997 and was appointed Head of Mergers and Acquisitions in 1999, and has been involved in several purchases since then as Mittal Steel has played a major role in the consolidation of the global steel industry. He is based in London. He was involved with a merger proposal between Arcelor and Mittal Steel. He suggested to his father and pursued the acquisition and merger of Arcelor to Mittal in 2006. The two companies were merged in 2006 and the new merged company is called ArcelorMittal..
Aditya Mittal is married to Megha. He has one sister, Vanisha, who is married to Amit Bhatia and has been a member of Mittal Steel's board of directors since December 2004.


Charity-:

He is involved in various charitable organisations, including the NSPCC in the United Kingdom.


quotes by Aditya Mittal-:

“As our stock price improves, so does the value of the offer.”


“We don't see China as a competitive threat. They're not making profits at current prices.”

“We've already said that we intend to reduce 45,000 jobs by 2010, and these are natural departures and retirement. We've already captured 10,000 ones in 2005, and if we keep that pace we can achieve our goal by 2010.”

“We believe we have offered a very fair transaction.”

Sergey Mikhailovich Brin

Sergey Mikhailovich Brin
(Co-founder of Google)

Born- Sergey Brin
August 21, 1973 (age 36)
Moscow, Soviet Union
Education- Univ. of Maryland (B.S., 1993)
Stanford University (M.S., 1995)
Alma mater- University of Maryland
Stanford University
Occupation- Computer scientist, technology innovator,
Entrepreneur
Employer- Google, Inc., Mountain View, California
Title: Co-founder and President
Salary- USD free of wage (2008)[1][2]
Net worth- US$12.0 billion [3]
Known for- co-founder of Google, Inc.
World’s largest internet company
Religious beliefs- Jewish
Spouse(s)- Anne Wojcicki[4]
Children- 1


Early Life-:
Sergey Mikhailovich Brin was born in Moscow, Russia in 1973 to a Jewish family. When he was 6, Brin's family moved to America where his father became a professor of mathematics and University of Maryland, while his mother worked as a specialist at NASA. Brin was fascinated by computers form a very early age, and received his first computer , from his father, on his ninth birthday. Brin did his schooling from Montessori school in Adelphi, Maryland, after which he enrolled in the University of Maryland to study Computer Science and Mathematics. In 1993, he graduated with high honors and received his Bachelors of Science. Post graduation, he pursued a Masters in Computer Science at Stanford with a graduate fellowship that he received from the National Science Foundation

Google-:
Since his early studies at Stanford, Brin showed much interest in the internet with his work on various papers relating to data mining and pattern extraction. He created a software that made it easy to put scientific papers, often written in TeX format, into HTML format.
Sergey first met Larry Page in 1995, when he was asked to show Larry around the university. As per some accounts, at first, Brin and Larry did not seem to agree on almost any subject. But the two eventually found a shared interest, which was in retrieving information from large data sets. Together, they created a search engine called BackRub which operated on Stanford servers for ever a year. The duo authored their seminal paper - “The Anatomy of a Large-scale Hypertextual Web Search
Engine”. The paper has become the tenth most accessed scientific paper at Stanford University.
The two decided to rename the BackRub engine and christened it 'Google', which is a play on the word 'googol', a mathematical term for the number represented by the numeral 1 followed by a hundred zeros. The use of the term reflected their mission to organize a seemingly infinite amount of information on the web.
When their attempts to sell their idea failed, the duo decided to go into business on their own. They gathered a capital of $1 million to start their own company. Google Inc. went into operation in1998 and opened in a garage at Menlo Park, California. The company grew at a rapid rate and the due to lack of space, the office had to be shifted to its current location at Mount View.
Over the next decade, many new and innovative products have been added to Google steadily increasing the companies scope and reach. Products include Google Earth (satellite photos of the world), Google Chrome (Google's web browser), Orkut (social network platform), Picasa (photo editing software), and several others.

Sergey Brin, Today-:
Currently, with an estimated worth of $18.7 billion, Sergey is ranked 32nd on the Forbes list of world's billionaires.
Despite his success, Brin has been able to maintain a relatively low profile. He is not known for a lavish lifestyle, drives an inexpensive car and still rents a two-bedroom flat. Brin is a keen gymnast and takes trapeze lessons. Like much of the Google staff, Brin often rides around work on roller skates and plays roller hockey during breaks.

Bharat Goenka

Bharat Goenka
Achievement :- Managing director of Tally Solutions, India's leading company in business accounting software.
He is the son of Shyam Sunder Goenka, who ran a company that supplied raw materials and machineries to textile mills and chemical plants in the southern and eastern parts of India.
Mr. Goenka completed his schooling from Bishop Cotton, Bangalore and graduated in 1982 with a major in Mathematics from the National College, Bangalore. Mr. S. S. Goenka mentored Bharat in creating software that would handle the financial accounts for his business.
When the business started bearing losses and gradually became dull Bharat Goenka developed Accounting software called THE ACCOUNTANT WITH NO-CODES in 1984 when his father bought him IBM PC. He was a mathematics graduate with innovative ideas.

Tally was first started in the name of Peutronics in 1986 by Bharat Goenka and his father Late Shyam Sunder Goenka, later it was renamed as Tally from 1988. . Now the latest version of it is Tally 9, the "world’s first concurrent multi-lingual business accounting and inventory software".
Bharat Goenka was one of the board members of RELIANCE INFOCOMM. He is a close associate of Mukesh Ambani.
Tally has a variable and vast list of Blue chip clients and is on the verge of reaching its goal to be known at a global level.

ARUN SARIN

ARUN SARIN- GO VODAFONE!
Born: October 21, 1954
Designation: Ex- Chief Executive Officer of Vodafone Group plc.
Net Worth: 25 million

Arun Sarin was the Chief Executive Officer of the Britain-based telecom company, Vodafone Group plc., born on October 21, 1954 in Panchmarhi, Madhya Pradesh. He is an American citizen, is of Indian origin and is based in the United Kingdom.
He did his schooling in Bangalore, graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in Metallurgical Engineering in 1975. He gained an MBA, in 1978, from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. He excelled in studies, sports as well as co-curricular activities.
He started his career in the same year as a ‘management consultant’. He worked in AirTouch as President and Chief Operating Officer from February 1997 to June 1999. In 1999, AirTouch and Vodafone merged and he became the Chief Executive. In July 2001, he started a telecommunication company called Accel-KKR Telecom. In April, 2003, Arun rejoined Vodafone and became the CEO of the company. On May 27, 2008, he announced his resignation after Vodafone achieved record earnings.
Under his leadership, Vodafone successfully bid US $ 11.1 billion for 67% stake in Indian company, Hutch. According to a report by The Guardian, in his final year, Sarin picked up 3,595,000 pounds in salary and bonus, taking his total earnings to more than 25 million. Sarin is replaced by Vittorio Colao, who joined Vodafone in 2000.

Dr. Kiran Mazumdar Shaw

Dr. Kiran Mazumdar Shaw- A Live Example
Born: March 23, 1953
Designation: Chairman and Managing Director of Biocon Limited
Felicitations: MV Memorial Award,
Wharton Infosys Business Transformation Award (2006),
Lifetime Achievement Award (2005),
ET Businesswoman of the Year,
Ernst and Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year Award for Life Sciences and Healthcare (2002),
Padmashri (1989),
Padmabhushan (2005)
Worth: 2,100 Crores

Kiran Mazumdar Shaw is the Chairman and Managing Director of the India’s biggest biotechnology company, Biocon Limited. She became India’s richest woman in 2004.
She was born in Bangalore on March 23, 1953. She did her schooling from Bangalore and graduated in Zoology from Bangalore University in 1973. After that, she went to Australia and qualified as a “master brewer” from Ballarat University, Melbourne.
She started her career in 1974 in Carlton and United Beverages as a Trainee Brewer. After that, she joined Biocon Biochemicals Limited, Ireland. With the capital of Rs. 10,000, she founded Biocon India in collaboration with Biocon Biochemicals Limited.
She tied the knot with John Shaw, in 1998, who was working as the MD of Madura Coats but now joined Biocon. In 2004, Biocon came up with an IPO and was over-subscribed by over 30 times.
Dr. Shaw has several honorary positions. Among them, she was the Chairperson and Mission Leader of the Confederation of Indian Industries National Task Force on Biotechnology; Member, Board of Science Foundation, Ireland; Member, Board of Governance, IIM Bangalore etc. She is a live example for other women to follow.

JERRY YANG- CHIEF YAHOO

JERRY YANG- CHIEF YAHOO

Jerry Yang was born on November 6, 1968 in Taipei, Taiwan. He is a Chinese American entrepreneur and the co-founder of Yahoo! Inc. His father died when Yang was two. At the age of 8, he immigrated to California with his mother and brother. He is an Electrical Engineer from Stanford University.
During his Engineering studies, he co-created a website with David Filo, named Yahoo!. Together they co-founded Yahoo! Inc. in April, 1995.
Yahoo! started as a web portal, now, one of the leading internet brands and is most trafficked.
Yang is married to Akiko Yamazaki, born in Costa Rica. She is an Industrial Engineer. Yang called himself a Chief Yahoo. On November 17, 2008, The Wallstreet Journal reported that Jerry Yang would soon be replaced. On January 13, 2009, Carol Bartz replaced Yang as the new CEO of Yahoo!
Yang is currently on the Board of Directors of Alibaba, the Asian Pacific Fund, Cisco and Yahoo! Japan. His net worth is US $ 2.3 million.

SIR RICHARD BRANSON

SIR RICHARD BRANSON

Sir Richard Branson is the famous business tycoon of U.K and the founder of Virgin Airlines. He is the chairman of virgin group. He launched virgin mobile brand which is India’s first nation-wide youth focused mobile service.

Richard Branson was a born entrepreneur. He showed this quality from his very teenage. Richard Branson was born in 1950, and was educated at Stowe School, where he established a national magazine called Student at the age of 16 and started a Student Advisory Centre at the age of 17 to help young people. In 1970 he founded Virgin as a mail order record retailer and after that he opened a record shop in Oxford Street, London.



Today, Virgin is one of the world's most recognized and respected brands. It has expanded itself into international retail, air travel, mobile, financial, retail, music, rail, resorts and leisure, space travel, and clean fuels through more than 200 companies’ worldwide. It has near about 50,000 people employed in 29 countries. Its total revenue around in 2006
exceeded c£5 billion (US$10 billion).
Virgin Atlantic Airways that was formed in 1984, is now the second largest British international airline operating a fleet of Boeing 747 and Airbus A340 aircraft. The airline is founded on the concept of offering a competitive and high quality service to Upper Class, Premium and Economy . Virgin Atlantic became the first commercial airline to fly a 747 on biofuel.




Richard believes that all businesses, especially those who are involved in transportation, energy and particularly fossil fuels like coal must develop environment friendly business strategies focusing to replace traditional energy with energy coming from renewable sources. This commitment is estimated to be $3 billion over the next ten years.
In February 2007, Richard announced a $25 million prize to encourage a viable technology that resulted in the net removal of anthropogenic, atmospheric greenhouse gases. In July 2007, on his and Nelson Mandela’s birthday, he joined Nelson Mandela, Graça Machel, and
Desmond Tutu and announced the formation of the Elders, a group of leaders to contribute their wisdom, independent leadership and integrity to tackle some of the world’s toughest problems.

In December 1999 Richard Branson was awarded a knighthood in the Queen’s millennium New Years honours list for “services to entrepreneurship”.

Dhirubhai H. Ambani

Dhirubhai H. Ambani
Founder Chairman, Reliance Industries Limited, India
December 28, 1932 - July 6, 2002
Major Group Companies: Reliance Industries Limited, India's largest private sector company.

Birthplace: Chorwad, village in Saurashtra (Gujarat), India
Father's Name: Hirachand Govardhandas Ambani
Mother's Name: Jamunaben Hirachand Ambani
Career:
At the age of 17 went to Aden (now part of Yemen) and worked for A. Besse & Co. Ltd., the sole selling distributor of Shell products. In the year 1958 returned to Mumbai and started his first company, Reliance Commercial Corporation, a commodity trading and export house. In the year 1966, as a first step in Reliance's highly successful strategy of backward integration, he started the textile mill in Naroda, Ahmedabad. In the year 1975, a technical team from the World Bank certified that the Reliance textile plant was "excellent by developed country standards." In the year 1977, the company went public. Credited with a number of financial innovations in the Indian capital markets. Today, the Reliance Group has one of the largest family of shareholders in the world. With an investment of over Rs 36,000 crore (US$ 9 billion) in petroleum refining, petrochemicals, power generation, telecommunication services and a port terminal in a three-year time frame, has steered the Reliance Group to its current status as India's leading textiles-petroleum-petrochemicals-power-telecom player. Achievements: Voted India's 'Top Businessman' in the 'Best of India' poll conducted by Zee News, August 2003. Petrotech Society conferred posthumously the 'Lifetime Achievement Award' for his outstanding contribution to Downstream Petroleum Industry in India, January 2003. Rated as one of 'India's Most Admired CEOs' for the fourth consecutive year in the Business Barons - Taylor Nelson Sofres - Mode Survey, July 2002. Conferred the 'Lifetime Achievement Award' by India HRD Congress, February 2002. Conferred 'The Economic Times Award for Corporate Excellence for Lifetime Achievement', August 2001. Felicitated by the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai with a citation at a civic reception, December 2000. Conferred the 'Man of the Century' award by Chemtech Foundation and Chemical Engineering World in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the growth and development of the chemical industry in India, November 2000. Conferred the 'Indian Entrepreneur of the 20th Century' award by FICCI (Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industries), for his meticulous scripting of one of the most remarkable stories of business endeavour of the 20th century, March 2000. Thrice (in the years 2000, 1998 and 1996) nominated as one of the 'Power 50 - the most powerful people in Asia' by Asiaweek magazine. Voted as the most admired Indian of the millennium in the field of Business & Economics in 'Legends - A Celebration of Excellence' poll audited by Ernst & Young for Zee Network, January 2000. Voted as 'Creator of Wealth' of the Century in The Times of India poll, January 2000. Chosen as one of the three 'makers of equity' by India Today in their special millennium issue entitled '100 People Who Shaped India in the 20th Century', January 2000. Chosen by the Indian Merchants' Chamber as "An Outstanding Visionary of the 20th Century" in recognition of his unique achievements and contribution in the development of industry and capital markets in India, December 1999. Voted as 'Indian Businessman of the Century' in Business Barons Global Multimedia Poll, December 1999. Amongst 'The Power 50 - India's 50 most powerful decision-makers in Politics, Business & Finance', Business Barons, August 1999. Declared 'Most Admired Indian Business Leader' by The Times of India, Indiatimes.com poll, July 1999. The only Indian industrialist in 'Business Hall of Fame' in Asiaweek, October 1998. Awarded the Dean's Medal by The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, for setting an outstanding example of leadership, June 1998. Chosen as 'Star of Asia' by Business Week, USA, June 1998. Leading business magazine Business Barons placed him in its list of 'India's 25 Most Influential Business and Financial Leaders', June 1998. Awarded the Companion Membership of the Textile Institute, UK, an award which is limited to 50 living members who have "substantially advanced the general interests of the industries based on fibres", 1994.




Spirit of Shri Dhirubhai H. Ambani
Quotes at various forums
Only when you dream it you can do it."
•"Think big, think fast, think ahead. Ideas are no one's monopoly"
•"Our dreams have to be bigger. Our ambitions higher. Our commitment deeper. And our efforts greater. This is my dream for Reliance and for India."
•"You do not require an invitation to make profits."
•"If you work with determination and with perfection, success will follow."
•"Pursue your goals even in the face of difficulties, and convert adversities into opportunities."
•"Give the youth a proper environment. Motivate them. Extend them the support they need. Each one of them has infinite source of energy. They will deliver."
•"Between my past, the present and the future, there is one common factor: Relationship and Trust. This is the foundation of our growth"
•"We bet on people."
•"Meeting the deadlines is not good enough, beating the deadlines is my expectation."
•"Don't give up, courage is my conviction."







Achievements / Awards for Mr Dhirubhai H. Ambani
Title
Date
The Economic Times - Lifetime Achievement Award
10.08.2001
TNS-Mode Survey - India's Most Admired CEO
26.07.1999
Chemtech Foundation - Man of the Century Award
08.11.2000
FICCI – Indian Entrepreneur of the 20th Century Award
24.03.2000
Asia Week - Dhirubhai among Asia's 50 most powerful people The Excerpt from Asia Week 1998The Excerpt from Asia Week 2000
29.05.199826.05.2000
The Times of India - Dhirubhai Ambani voted "Creator of Wealth" of the Century
08.01.2000
Business Baron - Dhirubhai Ambani voted "Indian Businessman of the Century" The complete cover story
06.12.199931.10.1999
Dhirubhai Ambani in Asia Week Hall of Fame The cover story
16.10.1998
Wharton's Dean Medal for Dhirubhai Ambani
15.06.1998
Business Week - Dhirubhai Ambani one of "The Stars of Asia"The complete cover story
29.06.1998
Business India - Dhirubhai Ambani, Businessman of the Year 1993
31.10.1999

D

K.P.Singh

Born: August 15, 1931Achievement: Chairman of DLF Group; Recipient of the 'Delhi Ratna' Award for his valuable contribution to Delhi K.P. Singh is the Chairman of DLF Group and can be christened as the real estate baron of India. DLF has a strong leadership presence in Indian real estate industry and the company is credited with developing the modern township of Gurgaon. K.P. Singh (Kushal Pal Singh) was born on August 15, 1931 at Bulandshahar in Uttar Pradesh. After graduating in Science from Meerut College, he went to UK to study Aeronautical Engineering. While pursuing engineering in UK, K.P. Singh was selected to the prestigious Indian Army, by British Officers Services Selection Board, UK. He joined the Indian Military Academy at Dehradun and was later on commissioned into The Deccan Horse-a renowned cavalry regiment of The Indian Army. In 1960, K.P. Singh joined American Universal Electric Company, a joint venture between Universal Electric Company of Owosso, Michigan and his family. Thereafter, K.P. Singh promoted another company, i.e. Willard India Limited in collaboration with ESB inc of Philadelphia for manufacturing automatic and industrial batteries in India and became its Managing Director. In 1979, K.P. Singh joined DLF Universal Limited. When American Universal Company merged with DLF Universal Limited, K.P. Singh became the Managing Director of the new company. K.P. Singh had the vision to buy land in Gurgaon, which was then a barren village on the outskirts of Delhi. He had the foresight to saw the untapped potential of the place and today Gurgaon is one of the real-estate hotspots of the country. Presently, DLF has 100 million square feet under development in residential, commercial and retail projects all over the country.Kushal Pal Singh also held a number of professional positions in India. He was the President of the ASSOCHAM (Associated Chamber of Commerce and Industry of India) and the PHD Chambers of Commerce & Industry. K.P. Singh is also the recipient of the 'Delhi Ratna' Award for his valuable contribution to Delhi.

Indian Business Tycoon Mukesh Ambani

Billionaire Mukesh Ambani is the Chairman and Managing Director of Reliance Industries Limited, India’s Largest Private Sector Company. He is the elder son of the legendry businessman late Dhirubhai Ambani. Mukesh Ambani has the following business interests: Petrochemicals, Petroleum Refining and Marketing, Oil and Gas exploration and production, Textiles, Retail and SEZs. Forbes (2009) list of the world’s billionaires named him the richest man in India and the 7th richest man in the world, having a net worth of $ 19.5 Billion.
Mukesh Ambani was born on April 19, Year 1957. He studied at Abaay Morischa School in Mumbai. He completed his chemical engineering from University of Mumbai. He went to Stanford University in the US for his Masters in Business Administration (MBA), but did not complete the course as he had to come back to join the family business.
In the year 1981 Mukesh Ambani joined Reliance. He was the key man at the time of the company’s backward integration from textiles into polyester fibres, and then into petrochemicals. He established a number of world class manufacturing facilities to take the company’s petrochemical manufacturing capabilities to a new level. Mukesh Ambani conceptualized and created the largest grassroots petroleum refinery in the world at Jamnagar, Gujrat, India. The refinery has a capacity of 33 million tonnes per year.
Mukesh Ambani helped to set up one of the world’s leading tele communications Companies, Reliance Communications, earlier known as Reliance Infocom. Reliance Communications went to younger brother Anil Ambani of ADAG, after the business empire got split in the year 2005.
Mukesh Ambani entered into the organized retail sector with Reliance Retail, opening hundreds of stores across several states. The stores serve diverse consumer needs and operate under various names such as Reliance Fresh, Reliance Mart and Reliance Digital.
Mukesh Ambani owns the Indian Premier League (IPL) Cricket Team, Mumbai Indians. He brought the team for $111.9 million.
Mukesh Ambani gifted his Wife Nita Ambani a $60 million Airbus Plane on her 44th birthday. The customized jet had a master bedroom, fancy showers, game consoles, music systems, satellite TV, and wireless communication.
Mukesh Ambani is building a 27 story house called Antilla, at Altamount Road, Mumbai. The 400000 square feet home will have 6 levels of car parking, 3 helipads, 4 levels of open gardens, 2 levels of health club, home theatre, swimming pools, a ball room with the ceiling covered with crystal chandeliers, 9 elevators, an ice room and much more. The cost of the new home may touch $ 2 billion.

Lakshmi Mittal

Steel king



Name : Lakshmi Mittal
Gender : Male
Date of birth : Jun 15, 1950
Age: 58
City : Sadulpur
State/Region : Rajasthan
Country : India

Net Worth: $19.3 bil
Fortune: inherited and growing
Source: steel
Country Of Citizenship:India
Residence: London
Industry: Steel
Education: St Xavier's College Calcutta,
Bachelor of Arts / Science,
Marital Status: married, 2 children


Lakshmi Mittal has become something of a cult figure in the global steel industry. His company Mittal Steel is the largest steel maker in the world. After the recent merger between Mittal Steel and Arcelor which raged a big debate throughout the Europe, Laxmi Mittal current controls 10% of the total steel production and the combined entity that has come into force post-merger is three times the size of its nearest competitors.
Lakshmi Niwas Mittal was born on June 15, 1950 at Sadulpur, in Churu district of Rajasthan, in a poor family. The extended family of 20 lived on bare concrete floors, slept on rope beds and cooked on an open fire in the brickyard in a house built by his grandfather. Laxmi Mittal belongs to Marwari Aggarwal caste and his grandfather worked for the Tarachand Ghanshyam Das firm, one of the leading Marwari industrial firms of pre-independence India.
The family later on moved to Kolkata where his father Mohan Mittal became a partner in a steel company. Lakshmi Mittal graduated from St. Xaviers in Kolkata with a commerce degree in 1969. He began his career working in the family's steelmaking business in India and in 1976, Lakshmi Mittal founded Mittal Steel Company. He split from his father and two younger brothers in 1994 and took the international arm, with interests in Indonesia and Trinidad and Tobago, while the rest of the family kept the domestic Indian business. In the last few years Mittal Steel has made a number of acquisitions, buying up a network of steel producers in former communist countries including Kazakhstan, Romania and Ukraine, and pushing into the U.S. in 2004 with the $4.5 billion purchase of International Steel Group. Today, Mittal Steel is the only truly global steel producer in the world with operations on 14 countries, spanning 4 continents.
Lakshmi Mittal is also known for his opulence. In 2003, he acquired the Kensington mansion, said to be the world's most expensive home, from Formula One racing's Bernie Ecclestone for £70 million ($128 million). His daughter Vanisha's $50 million wedding bash is touted as the most expensive wedding of the 20th century.
In March 2006, Lakshmi Mittal was listed as the third wealthiest person in the world after Bill Gates and Warren Buffet by Forbes Magazine.
Mittal has received accolades for his achievements. In 1996, he was awarded the title 'Steel maker of the Year' by New Steel Magazine in the USA, and he received the Eighth Honorary Willy Korf Steel Vision Award, the highest recognition for world wide achievement in the steel industry in June 1998. The award was presented by the American Metal Market, a specialised publication, and Paine Weber's World Steel Dynamics in New York., for outstanding vision, entrepreneurship, leadership and success in global steel development, from the American Metal Market and Paine Weber's World Steel Dynamics. In 2004, he was awarded the 'European Business man of the year' by Fortune Magazine. Mittal is an active philanthropist and a member of various trusts.

Lakshmi Mittal Buying London's Costliest House For Son

The property on Palace Greens, one of the most expensive houses in the world is going to be purchased by steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal for his son Aditya. The London mansion is going to be purchased by the ArcelorMittal chairman for his only son in a record 117 million pounds ($230 million). The property is close to Kensington Palace Gardens, where the steel tycoon himself lives.
Lakshmi Mittal’s family, the richest man of Britain is known to have approached for the house, which is next to the Israeli embassy. He is believed to be close to exchanging contracts with owner Noam Gottesman, a US born financier. The American born hedge fund magnate is believed to have a fortune of 460 million pounds.
Stephen Holmes of the London property agent Savills remarked that there are just twenty properties of with that view of Kensington Palace, and people queue up to lay their hands on them. Mr. Lakshmi Mittal is the owner and chairman of world’s biggest steel manufacturing company ArcelorMittal, which is worth 27.7 billion pounds.



Motivational Quotes by Indian Billionaire Lakshmi Mittal

“Everyone experiences tough times, it is a measure of your determination and dedication how you deal with them and how you can come through them”.-Lakshmi Mittal


“Always think outside the box and embrace opportunities that appear, wherever they might be.”

“When people can see which direction the leaders are going in it becomes easier to motivate them.”

Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs



Steve Jobs is the co-founder and CEO of Apple and Pixar.

“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” -Steve Jobs


Early Life

Steve Jobs was born on the 24th of February 1955 in San Francisco, where he was adopted by the Jobs family. He did his schooling in Cupertino, California and during high school he started attending lectures at Hewlett Packard Company in Palo Alto. Jobs was hired there during summer, and thats when he met Steve Wozniak. After graduation he joined Reed College, Portland but two years later, he dropped out after just one semester. Later he returned home and started attending meetings held by the Homebrew Computer Club with Steve Wozniak. Soon he started working with Atari, a video game maker. Steve and Wozniak went into business, producing 'blue boxes', which were illegal and enabled free long distance telephone calls.

Career

Fascinated by spirituality, Jobs saved money and traveled to India, in search for enlightenment. Later he returned home and began working for Atari again, along with Wozniak.
In 1976, Jobs and Wozniak founded Apple Computer Company, named after Jobs' favorite fruit, that produced home PCs, mostly based on Wozniak's expertise with computer electronics. Their first computer was called Apple I, and was followed later by Apple II, which was quite a hit. In 1980, at the time of launch of Apple III, Apple Computer Co became a publicly traded company.
To encourage the marketability of Apple, Jobs managed to convince John Sculley from Pepsi Co to become Apple's CEO. Apple Computer Co released its first graphical user interfaced computer, called Macintosh in 1984, which was a huge leap for Apple computers at that time.
Jobs charismatic leadership had greatly benefited Apple, but his hot temper and inconsistent behavior led to much led to much tension in the company. There was as a result, a power feud in 1985, at the end of which, Jobs was stripped off much of his responsibilities in the company, but the board of directors. After a while, Jobs resigned as chairman of Apple and later founded another company called Next Computers. His new company went on to produce an aesthetically pleasing, technologically superior workstation called The Cube. But this workstation was cost prohibitive and eventually, Jobs shifted his focused to software, which he believed would be the field of the next big technological breakthrough. But two huge implications of Next were that, its software would later be used for writing the first World Wide Web, and second, the NeXTSTEP operating system that was being created at Next, would eventually bring to Apple Computers, a very efficient, advanced operating system.
In 1996, with Apple purchasing Next, Steve was brought back to Apple as its CEO. His first objective was to bring the company back to profitability, for which he terminate several inefficient projects. Under his leadership and with the launch of iMac line of computers, Apple’s profits returned. Elegant, refreshing designs of the iMacs, backed by user friendly software, increased Apples appeal. Apple entered other consumer electronics fields, such as portable music players with their iPods, digital music distribution through iTunes and even mobile phones with iPhones.
Jobs purchased Lucasfilms computer graphics division for $10 million which he renamed Pixar, in 1986. Pixar began creating animated movies and struck a deal with Walt Disney, which agreed to co finance and distribute the movies. In 1995 Pixar's first movie, Toy Story was released and went on to become a box office hit. It was followed by other successful hits such as such- A Bug’s Life, Toy Story 2, Monsters Inc, Finding Nemo and The Incredibles.

Honors

Steve Jobs, along with Steve Wozniak, was awarded the National Medal Technology from President Ronald Reagan in 1985. They were the first people to receive the honor.

In its November issue, Fortune Magazine named Jobs as the most powerful person in business.

In December of 2007, Californian Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger inducted Steve Jobs into the California Hall of Fame.

Achievement

The Co-Founder and CEO of Apple Computers and the Pixar animation studio, Steve Jobs ignited the personal computer revolution in the 1970s with the Apple II and reinvented the personal computer in the 1980s with the Macintosh. At age 20, Jobs founded Apple in his parents garage with $1,300 he raised by selling his old Volkswagen and his parents' calculator. Today, Apple leads the industry in innovation with its award-winning desktop and notebook computers, OS X operating system, and with leading consumer and professional software applications. Apple is also leading the digital music revolution with its iPod portable music players and iTunes online music store. Jobs's animation venture, Pixar, has created some of the most successful and beloved animated films of all time: Toy Story, A Bug's Life, Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo and The Incredibles. In 2006, Pixar merged with The Walt Disney Company in a $7.4 billion deal that made Steve Jobs the largest individual shareholder in Disney. Now one of the established leaders of American industry, Steve Jobs was still a mischievous 26-year old iconoclast when he addressed the Academy of Achievement in 1982.

Leadership Experience

Steve Jobs is responsible for building Apple Computer twice, as well as for rescuing Pixar Animation Studios and turning it into one of the world's most successful motion picture studios. He also built NeXT Computer, a good idea that did not catch on. He was a hands-on manager, who studied even the minutest details of his products, with the heart and eye of an artist. His insistence on high-quality, good-looking products struck a chord with many people who appreciated the beauty of Apple products, resulting in such fabulous successes as the Macintosh computer and the iPod portable music system.

While Jobs was a persuasive and charismatic evangelist for Apple, some of his employees from that time had described him as an erratic and tempestuous manager. Fortune once noted that he "is considered one of Silicon Valley's leading egomaniacs”. But since his second coming to Apple his management style has radically changed from what it was in 1985. In fact, he seems to relish other people's ideas; perhaps his work at Pixar has improved his ability to work with the creative people. He wisely surrounds himself with top-notch executives in all the key corporate positions. He has transformed the corporate culture into one in which employees wanted to come to work and have a mission to change the world for the better. Moreover, Steve Jobs brought the fun back into tinkering with electronics.




Quotations by STEVE JOBS

“A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets.”

“Almost everything--all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure--these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart”.

“Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.”

“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”

Bill Gates

Founder, chairman of Microsoft; founder and co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation


Bill Gates came from a family of entrepreneurship and high-spirited liveliness. William Henry Gates III was born in Seattle, Washington on October 28th, 1955. His father, William H. Gates II, is a Seattle attorney. His late mother, Mary Gates, was a schoolteacher, University of Washington regent, and chairwoman of United Way International.

William (Bill) H. Gates was chairman of Microsoft Corporation, the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential. Microsoft had revenues of US$55.12 billion for the fiscal year ending June 2007, and employs more than 78,000 people in 105 countries and
regions.

On June 15, 2006, Microsoft announced that effective July 2008 Gates will transition out of a day-to-day role in the company to spend more time on his global health and education work at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. After July 2008 Gates will continue to serve as Microsoft’s chairman and an advisor on key development projects. The two-year transition process is to ensure that there is a smooth and orderly transfer of Gates’ daily responsibilities. Effective June 2006, Ray Ozzie has assumed Gates’ previous title as chief software architect and is working side by side with Gates on all technical architecture and product oversight responsibilities at Microsoft. Craig Mundie has assumed the new title of chief research and strategy officer at Microsoft and is working closely with Gates to assume his responsibility for the company’s research and incubation efforts.

Born on Oct. 28, 1955, Gates grew up in Seattle with his two sisters. Their father, William H. Gates II, is a Seattle attorney. Their late mother, Mary Gates, was a schoolteacher, University of Washington regent, and chairwoman of United Way International.

Gates attended public elementary school and the private Lakeside School. There, he discovered his interest in software and began programming computers at age 13.

In 1973, Gates entered Harvard University as a freshman, where he lived down the hall from Steve Ballmer, now Microsoft’s chief executive officer. While at Harvard, Gates developed a version of the programming language BASIC for the first microcomputer - the MITS Altair.

In his junior year, Gates left Harvard to devote his energies to Microsoft, a company he had begun in 1975 with his childhood friend Paul Allen. Guided by a belief that the computer would be a valuable tool on every office desktop and in every home, they began developing software for personal computers. Gates’ foresight and his vision for personal computing have been central to the success of Microsoft and the software industry.

Under Gates’ leadership, Microsoft’s mission has been to continually advance and improve software technology, and to make it easier, more cost-effective and more enjoyable for people to use computers. The company is committed to a long-term view, reflected in its investment of approximately $7.1 billion on research and development in the 2007 fiscal year.

In 1999, Gates wrote Business @ the Speed of Thought, a book that shows how computer technology can solve business problems in fundamentally new ways. The book was published in 25 languages and is available in more than 60 countries. Business @ the Speed of Thought has received wide critical acclaim, and was listed on the best-seller lists of the New York Times, USA Today, the Wall Street Journal and Amazon.com. Gates’ previous book, The Road Ahead, published in 1995, held the No. 1 spot on the New York Times’ bestseller list for seven weeks. Top row: Steve Wood (left), Bob Wallace, Jim Lane. Middle row: Bob O’Rear, Bob Greenberg, Marc McDonald, Gordon Letwin. Bottom row: Bill Gates, Andrea Lewis, Marla Wood, Paul Allen. December 7, 1978. Top row: Steve Wood (left), Bob Wallace, Jim Lane. Middle row: Bob O’Rear, Bob Greenberg, Marc McDonald, Gordon Letwin. Bottom row: Bill Gates, Andrea Lewis, Marla Wood, Paul Allen. December 7, 1978.

Gates has donated the proceeds of both books to non-profit organizations that support the use of technology in education and skills development.

In addition to his love of computers and software, Gates founded Corbis, which is developing one of the world’s largest resources of visual information - a comprehensive digital archive of art and photography from public and private collections around the globe. He is also a member of the board of directors of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., which invests in companies engaged in diverse business activities.

Philanthropy is also important to Gates. He and his wife, Melinda, have endowed a foundation with more than $28.8 billion (as of January 2005) to support philanthropic initiatives in the areas of global health and learning, with the hope that in the 21st century, advances in these critical areas will be available for all people. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has committed more than $3.6 billion to organizations working in global health; more than $2 billion to improve learning opportunities, including the Gates Library Initiative to bring computers, Internet Access and training to public libraries in low-income communities in the United States and Canada; more than $477 million to community projects in the Pacific Northwest; and more than $488 million to special projects and annual giving campaigns.

Gates was married on Jan. 1, 1994, to Melinda French Gates. They have three children. Gates is an avid reader, and enjoys playing golf and bridge.

Bill Gates & Microsoft

In 1975, before graduation Gates left Harvard to form Microsoft with his childhood friend Paul Allen. The pair planned to develop software for the newly emerging personal computer market.

Bill Gate's company Microsoft became famous for their computer operating systems and killer business deals. For example, Bill Gates talked IBM into letting Microsoft retain the licensing rights to MS-DOS an operating system, that IBM needed for their new personal computer. Gates proceeded to make a fortune from the
licensing of MS-DOS.

On November 10, 1983, at the Plaza Hotel in New York City, Microsoft Corporation formally announced Microsoft Windows, a next-generation operating system.

On January 1, 1994, Bill Gates married Melinda French Gates. They have three children.


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Shiv Nadar

Early Life
Shiv Nadar was born in 1946 in the former Tirunelveli district of Tamil Nadu. He graduated from PSG College of Technology in 1968 and moved to Delhi, where he took up a job with DCM's calculator division.

Career
Teaming up with five other entrepreneurs, Shiv Nadar formed Microcomp, a company that sold teledigital calculators in India. Later, he founded HCL in 1976, with a modest investment of 1,87,000 Rs, which was contributed by 6 founders. The companies prospects in the micro computer business grew strong when companies like IBM had to leave the country due to unfavorable policies adopted by the government. By 1980, the company had ventured into the international IT hardware market by opening Far East Computers in Singapore.

In order to address the rapidly rising demand for computer education, Nadar invested in NIIT in 1981. He maintained no managerial rights over the company, but was its largest shareholder.

By 1984, the companies attention was on designing micro computers and writing custom applications for clients on these systems. With the liberalization of regulations for importing technology, HCL found an opportunity to enter the personal computers solutions and UNIX platform based solutions scenario.

Through 1984, the company focused on designing microcomputers and writing custom applications for clients on these systems. When the Indian government liberalized regulations for import of technology, the computer market was in effect opened for adopting new global technologies. HCL utilized the opportunity to develop Personal computers solutions (called Busybee) and UNIX platform based solutions. The company also opened a successful office solutions subsidiary called HCL office Automation. By 1987, HCL's revenues were around Rs 100 crores and it featured as the numero uno company of India.

HCL America was setup in 1989, but was not very successful. With the ushering in of the economic reforms and foreign players, HCL joined HP and established the joint venture called HCL HP Limited, which provided solutions for local computing market and gave HCL its first experience in outsourced R&D. By the mid 90s, Shiv Nadar had secured rights to distribute Ericsson and Nokia products in India.

By 1995 Nadar had decided to shift companies focus on global IT services, and formed HCL Consulting for this purpose. It was renamed HCL Technologies in 1996 when the joint venture with HP was terminated.

Nadar took HCL Technologies public in 1999. When its IPO took place, HCL was the second biggest IT company. HCL completely shifted its focus towards R&D services to product engineering companies.

After some strategic acquisitions in 2001, HCL consolidated its number of companies from five to two in 2004, which were, HCL Technologies and HCL Infosystems.

In 2007, Shiv passed the mantle of CEO of HCL Technologies to Vineet Nayar. Shiv remains Chairman of HCL Technologies and it's largest shareholder.


Education and Healthcare

Nadar founded an engineering college in Chennai in 1996, and named it after his father. HE joined the executive board of Indian School of Business in 2005. In 2008, his SNN Trust initiated the setting up of seven Vidyagyan schools for students in UP for rural students.

He is also a member of the the Governing board of Public Health Foundation of India.

Recent Accolades
Shiv Nadar was awarded with the Padma Bhushan in 2008, in recognition for his contributions to the Indian IT industry.
The year before that. He was awarded an honorary doctorate degree by the Madras University for his efforts in promoting software technology. The same year. He was also named E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year 2007.

Henry Ford

Early Life

Henry Ford was born on 30th July, 1863 on a farm, to a family of six, in Michigan. When he was about ten, Henry saw a steam engine mounted on wheels. It was the first engine driven machine he ever saw, and his fascination with locomotives born right then, would drive him through a lifetime of innovation in the automotive field. At 16, he headed for Detroit, where he began work as an apprentice machinist.



Career

Ford returned to the farm in 1882, and having exhibited great acumen with portable steam engines, got employed by Westinghouse Company to service their engines. By 1891, Ford became an engineer, working with Edison Illuminating Company. He gained a quick promotion and thus, found enough time and money to indulge in experiments with gasoline engines. By the age of 33, he had designed a gasoline engine propelled vehicle, called the Quadricycle.

Ford collected interested investors and formed a company called Detroit Automobile Company. But his lack of interest in actually marketing the cars, instead of constantly improving them and racing against rival companies, led to bankruptcy of the companies bankruptcy. The investors, looking for profitability, hired Henry M Leland to get a production model released. Following this, Ford resigned and the company was rechristened Cadillac Automobile Company.

With the co-operation of new investors, Ford started another venture called Ford Motor Company in 1903. The company produced a newly designed car which recorded a land speed record, becoming the fastest car of its time. With fan fare and smart publicity, the car soon became well known all around America. In a few years, Ford developed another car called Model T. This car, with advanced features for its time, and a relatively more economic price tag, gained massive popularity, and went on to sell over 15 million units. It was said to have revolutionized automobile transportation.

Besides improving the desirable features of the car, Ford focused on smart marketing and publicity. He brought the concept of owning and driving an automobile to vast masses of America. Through his franchise car dealerships spread all over America, he was able reach a massive chunk of the population. In 1913, Ford introduced the assembly line system in his production facilities and further cut costs. Later on, this mode of production would catch onto several industries. Even as the price of the car was dropped to less than half of its original by 1916, the company was still making enormous profits due to cost cutting improvements each year. By 1918, with sales of about half a million units, half the cars in America were Model Ts. By late 1920, though competition was beginning to engulf an ever rising market share, Henry had sold a record number of cars, and would hold that record for almost half a century.

Next, in 1926, Henry created the Model A Ford, which was again, a marvel for its time. The model went through continuous revisions for over four years, when its production finally came to a halt in 1931. Thereafter, the company followed a policy of annual model change. Henry also started a credit company for people to gain finance, which would help sell further more units of his cars. By early 30s, a third of the worlds vehicles were Fords.

Ford harbored a passion for racing, specially with his Model Ts, stripped down for better power/weight ration. For his records in the automotive field and racing, Henry Ford has been honored with an induction in the American Motorsports Hall of Fame.

During WW I, Ford diverted attention to developing Liberty airplane engines. He bought the Stout Metal Airplane Company. Fords most successful airplane was the 12 seater Ford 4AT Trimotor, the first successful US passenger airplane.

Vijay Mallya

Background

Dr Vijay Mallya is an Indian businessman and Rajya Sabha MP. The chairman of the United Breweries Group and Kingfisher Airlines, Mr Mallya holds diverse interests and is famous for his flamboyant and flashy lifestyle. He is the son of notable industrialist Vittal Mallya and after completing his schooling and college in Kolkata, Mallya went on to receive an honorary Doctorate in Business Administration from California.


The UB Group

Dr Mallya began his career by training with some of the best global corporations in United States and England. Later, in the early 80s, he returned to India to assume major responsibilities with the UB Group, where his father, Mr Vittal Mallya, was the serving as the Chairman. In 1983, he became the chairman of the UB Group.

Dr Mallya immediately directed the company's focus towards defining a corporate framework that would involve greater performance accountability, inducting professional management and segregating the chaotic empire into individual operating divisions.

Judging the situation during the onset of the liberalization policies in 1990, Dr Mallya directed his company to sacrifice interests in business that were dependent upon fiscal tariff protection and to secure strongholds over globally competitive businesses that were concurrent with the core competence of the group.

Under his dynamic leadership, the group has grown into a multi national conglomerate of over 60 companies with an annual turnover that continues to increase many fold and diverse interests ranging from spirits (beverages), engineering, chemicals, IT, agriculture, and leisure. It is the third largest spirit marketer in the world with sales reaching 60 million cases.


Kingfisher Airlines

Dr Mallya established Kingfisher Airlines in 2005. He has taken care to maintain standards that the UB Group always abides by, and the Airline, bestowed with various accolades, enjoys the status of being one of India's finest experiences in the Indian sky. It is the first Indian airline to operate with a brand new fleet of aircrafts and the first one to order an Airbus 380.

Operating on a strategy to expand the market, Dr Mallya's Kingfisher picked up a 26% controlling stake in the Air Deccan. With this merger, the airline now offers services in all segments of air travel, low fares as well as premium fare.


Epic Aircraft

Eying a tremendous scope in the Indian market for small business jets, Dr Mallya has acquired half the equity of a US based jet manufacturer, Epic Aircraft, for 120 million dollars that he paid for in personal capacity. He further plans to invest in resorts in Kerala and the Lakshadweep islands and the small jets would be ideal for ferrying customers to and from these islands.


Other interests

Dr Mallya is also the owner of an F1 team, Force India and has shown interest in promoting an Indian Grand Prix, a Formula 1 race in India, possibly in Greater Noida, and an F1 street race in New Delhi.

The United Breweries sponsor two football clubs in Kolkata and The Royal Challengers Bangalore IPL cricket team.
Working on his belief in charity, Mallya has been actively supporting various charities in several countries. Some of his notable achievements towards this objective have been establishing The Mallya Hospital, The Mallya-Aditi School and t