SUCCESSFUL ENTREPRENEURS

Mukesh Ambani Mukesh Dhirubhai Ambani (born 19 April 1957) is an Indian business magnate who is the chairman, managing director and largest shareholder of Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), a Fortune Global 500 company and India's second-most valuable company by market value.He holds a 44.7% stake in the company.RIL deals mainly in refining, petrochemicals, and in the oil and gas sectors. Reliance Retail Ltd., another subsidiary, is the largest retailer in India. He is the elder son of the late Dhirubhai Ambani and Kokilaben Ambani and the brother of Anil Ambani. In 2016, he was ranked 38, and is the only Indian businessman, on Forbes' list of the world's most powerful people.As of 2016, Ambani has consistently held the title of India's richest person on the magazine's list for ten years.Through Reliance, he also owns the Indian Premier League franchise Mumbai Indians. In 2012, Forbes named him one of the richest sports owners in the world.He resides at the Antilia Building, one of the world's most expensive private residences. Its value is close to 1 billion dollars.As of 2015, Ambani ranked fifth among India's philanthropists, according to China’s Hurun Research Institute. He has served on the board of directors of Bank of America and the international advisory board of the Council on Foreign Relations. He was the chairman of the board of Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, which is one of the leading business schools in India.

Azim Premji Azim Hashim Premji (born 24 July 1945) is an Indian business tycoon, investor, and philanthropist. who is the chairman of Wipro Limited. He is informally known as the Czar of the Indian IT Industry. He was responsible for guiding Wipro through four decades of diversification and growth to finally emerge as one of the global leaders in the software industry.In 2010, he was voted among the 20 most powerful men in the world by Asiaweek. He has twice been listed among the 100 most influential people by TIME Magazine, once in 2004 and more recently in 2011.Premji owns 73% percent of Wipro and also owns a private equity fund, PremjiInvest, which manages his $2 billion worth of personal portfolio. In 2013 he gave away 25 per cent of his personal wealth to charity and has also pledged to give away the rest of 25% in the next 5 years.

Prannoy Roy Roy was born in Calcutta to a Bengali father who was the Chief Executive of the Indian unit of a British company and an Irish mother who was a teacher. He attended The Doon School, Dehradun. He later won a scholarship to Haileybury and Imperial Service College in the UK for his A-levels and qualified as a British Chartered Accountant,a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants (England and Wales) and has a PhD in Economics from the Delhi School of Economics. Prannoy Roy is a TV / digital journalist in India, an author and a professional British Chartered Accountant and Economist. He has been the lead anchor for election analysis and budget specials on India's national television network Doordarshan and for BBC World News' Question Time India. In 1988, Roy, along with his journalist wife Radhika, launched a television production house called New Delhi Television. Roy started his career with televised coverage of India's general elections. On Doordarshan, he hosted news programs "The News Tonight" and "The World This Week" (which were nominated as one of India's 5 best television programs since independence.He also started India's first 24-hour English news channel NDTV 24x7.

Vijay Shekhar Sharma Vijay Shekhar Sharma is an Indian entrepreneur and founder of Paytm. Sharma was born in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh. He cites Alibaba's founder Jack Ma and Masayoshi Son of Softbank as his inspirations. Sharma started college at the age of 15. In 1997, while in college, started the website indiasite.net and sold it two years later for $1 million. In 2005, he started One97 Communications which offered mobile content like news, cricket scores, ringtones, jokes and exam results. One97 is the parent company of Paytm, which was launched in 2010. Awarded with Honour of Causa Doctorate of Sciences (D.Sc.) Degree at Amity University Gurgaon, in 2016

Subrata Roy Subrata Roy  (born 10 June 1948) is an Indian businessman. He is the founder and chairman of the Sahara India, an Indian conglomerate with diversified businesses and ownership interests that include London's Grosvenor House, New York's Plaza Hotel, Aamby Valley City and Force India. Roy founded the company in 1978. He was named among the 10 Most Powerful People of India in 2012 by India Today. In 2004, the group was termed by the Time magazine as ‘the second largest employer in India' after the Indian Railways. He has been in Tihar Jail since 2014. Roy joined Sahara Finance, a struggling company, in 1978,that ran a chit fund and took it over. He changed its financial model. Sahara is said to have used the financial model of much older Peerless Group. They are termed residuary non-banking companies (RNBCs)that accept deposits of very low amounts. Subrata Roy received an honorary doctorate in business leadership from the University of East London (2013). He also received the Business Icon of the Year award at the Powerbrands Hall of Fame Awards in London in 2011.He has been the ITA – TV Icon of the Year 2007. He has received the Global Leadership Award in 2004. He received Businessmen of the Year Award in 2002, the Best Industrialist Award in 2002, Vishisht Rashtriya Udaan Samman (2010) by a daily from India’s top most publication house.

Shiv Nadar Shiv Nadar (born 14 July 1945) is an Indian industrialist and philanthropist. He is the founder and chairman of HCL and the Shiv Nadar Foundation. Nadar founded HCL in the mid-1970s and transformed the IT hardware company into an IT enterprise over the next three decades by constantly reinventing his company's focus. In 2008, Nadar was awarded Padma Bhushan for his efforts in the IT industry. Nadar, nicknamed by friends as Magus (Old Persian for "wizard"), since the mid-1990s has focused his efforts on developing the educational system of India through the Shiv Nadar Foundation. He is the brother of Tamil novelist Ramanichandran. The initial enterprise which Nadar and his partners began was Microcomp, a company which focused on selling teledigital calculators in the Indian market.[ HCL was founded in 1976, with an investment of Rs. 187,000. In 1980, HCL ventured into the international market with the opening of Far East Computers in Singapore to sell IT hardware. The venture reported Rs 1 million revenue in the first year and continued to address the Singapore operations. Nadar remained the largest shareholder without retaining any management control. In 2008, the government of India awarded Nadar with Padma Bhushan, the third highest civilian award, for his contribution to the IT industry. In 2007, Madras University awarded him an honorary doctorate degree (D Sc) for his contributions in promoting software technology.Nadar was also recognised as E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year 2007 (Services). In 1995 he became the Dataquest IT Man of the year. the In 2005 he was bestowed with CNBC Business Excellence Award.

Bhavish Aggarwal Bhavish Aggarwal was born in August 28, 1985 in Ludhiana, Punjab is an Indian entrepreneur and co-founder of Ola Cabs. He completed a bachelor's degree in computer science and engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in 2008. He began his career with Microsoft Research, where he worked for two years and was able to file two patents and publish three papers in international journals. In January 2011 he co-founded Ola Cabs with Ankit Bhati in Mumbai. In 2015 Aggarwal and Bhati were the youngest to be included in that year's list of richest Indians.

Verghese Kurien Verghese Kurien (26 November 1921 – 9 September 2012) known as the Father of the White Revolution in India was a social entrepreneur whose "billion-litre idea", Operation Flood - the world's largest agricultural dairy development programme,made India the world's largest milk producer, surpassing the United States of America by 1998, He helped establish the Amul cooperative, today India's largest food brand, where three-fourths of the price paid by the consumer goes into the hand of the producing dairy farmer, the cooperative's owner.  He found the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) in 1965, to replicate Amul's "Anand pattern" nationwide. He also made India self-sufficient in edible oils,taking on a powerful, entrenched and violently resistant oil supplying lobby. He is regarded as one of the greatest proponents of the cooperative movement in the world, his work having lifted millions out of poverty in India and outside.

Bill Gates William Henry "Bill" Gates III was born in October 28, 1955 .He is an American business magnate, investor, author, and philanthropist. In 1975, Gates and Paul Allen co-founded Microsoft, which became the world's largest PC software company. During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions of chairman, CEO and chief software architect, and was the largest individual shareholder until May 2014.Gates has authored and co-authored several books. He is one of the best-known entrepreneurs of the personal computer revolution. He has been criticized for his business tactics, which have been considered anti-competitive, an opinion that has in some cases been upheld by numerous court rulings.