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.