KP Singh

Name: KP Singh

Born: On August 15, 1931

Industry: Real Estate

Residence: Delhi, India & Australia

Net worth: $ 30 billion (Source: Forbes)

K.P. Singh charted a distinguished and inimitable career, reflected in the establishment of India’s largest real estate company. Today, under his leadership, DLF Limited has established an unrivalled position in real estate industry with an enviable portfolio in terms of scale of delivery, bandwidth of range of products and development potential. Mr. K. P. Singh has conceived and pioneered initiatives, which are today, recognised as benchmarks in the real estate sector. He has been the visionary in steering DLF’s growth as a multi-dimensional, diversified, multi-billion dollar conglomerate. DLF has now become the world’s largest real estate company in terms of revenues, earnings, market capitalisation and developable area. A graduate in science, Mr. K.P. Singh pursued Aeronautical Engineering in UK, being subsequently selected to the Indian Army by British Officers Services Selection Board, UK. He was commissioned into the renowned cavalry regiment of ‘The Deccan Horse’ of the Indian Army. In 1960, he joined American Universal Electric Company and soon after its merger with DLF Universal Limited in 1979, he took over as the Managing Director of this new company.

ARUN SARIN

Name: Arun Sarin
Date Of Birth: october 21,1954
Academics: Indian Institute of Technology, 1975
MS in Engineering ,1978
MBA from University Of California, Berkley , 1978
Job Profile: was the CEO of Vodafone group plc.
Fame: Europe's Highest Paid CEO


Arun sarin was born on october 21, 1954 in Panchmari , Madhya pradesh , India. He was the CEO of World's largestmobile phone company ( by Revenue ) Britan's Vodafone group plc. He announced his resignation as CEO of vodafone on june29,2008.He started his career as a management consultant before moving, in 1984, to Pacific Telesis Group in San Francisco. Commencing in corporate development, he was instrumental in the company acquiring the first cellular licences in the US as well as winning the first cellular licence in Germany and a PCN licence in the UK. He was appointed CFO and Chief Strategy Officer at Pacific Bell, before moving on to become Vice President and General Manager, San Francisco Bay Area Telephone Company.Following the demerger from Pacific Telesis of the mobile and paging businesses to form AirTouch Communications, He was appointed Senior Vice President Corporate Strategy and Development where he was instrumentak in merger with the US West wireless business. On becoming President and CEO, AirTouch International, He was responsible for the acquisition of wireless licences in several overseas territories and establishing the management teams of these new ventures. He then became President and CEO of AirTouch Communications where he was responsible for managing the cellular and paging operations in 14 countries and was a key negotiator in the successful acquisition of AirTouch by Vodafone Group Plc. Within the combined business, Vodafone AirTouch Plc, he was CEO US/Asia Pacific region, managing the Group’s operations in the US, Asia and Australasia. In addition, he headed the Global Technology division, responsible for the introduction of wireless internet services. In 2000, with the successful merger of Vodafone AirTouch’s US businesses with those of Bell Atlantic and GTE to form Verizon Wireless, Arun, whilst maintaining a non-executive directorship of Vodafone AirTouch Plc, became CEO of Infospace.
In 2001 he joined Accel-KKR telecom here he oversaw the acquisition of canada's yellow pages business. In 2003 he became the CEO designate of vodafoen group and then became the chief executive officer on july 30th, 2003. He was a Non executive director of GAP inc, Charles schwab coropration and Cisco Systems inc. During his tenure with vodafone he was focused on emerging markets as India, Turkey and Romania. vodafone made a successful bid of US $11.1 billion for 67% stake in indian cellular operator , HUTCH, now it has ben rebranded as Vodafone.Vodafone says it expects sales of £39.8 billion ($78.6 billion) to £40.7 billion ($80.4 billion), in 2009, with adjusted operating profit of £11 billion ($21.7 billion) to £11.5 billion ($22.7 billion). The company had also reported strong results in the third quarter. ( source Forbes ). He was pioneer in providing value added services for the mobile phone users. on may27,2008 Vodafone announced that its CEO Arun Sarin will resign after a tenure of five years with company, He will be succeded by his deputy and former head of European business Vittorio colao.
Sarin left Vodafone in better shape than when he joined it. His surprise resignation overshadowed the company's return to full-year profitability also announced on May 27, with Vodafone posting net profits of $13.2 billion for the year ending Mar. 31, compared with a loss of more than $10 billion the previous year due to writedowns. Sales rose 14%, to $70 billion. And during Sarin's tenure, Vodafone's global customer base has more than doubled, from 120 million to 260 million today. (Source Businessweek ). Vodafone is rite now #12 among the Uk largest companies with sales of $51.0 billion and profit of $38.0 billion. Arun Sarin has been instrumental in the rise of vodafone group.

Mukesh Ambani

Name: Mukesh Dhirubhai Ambani
Born: April 19, 1957 in Yemen
Residence: Mumbai, India
Industry: Petrochemical
Occupation: Chairman of Reliance Group of Companies
Net Worth: US $ 43 billion (source: Forbers)


Mukesh Ambani, the chairman of Reliance Industries was born on April 19, 1957 in Yemen. He is the world's fifth richest man in the world and richest in Asia, with a net worth of approximately US $ 43 billion. His Company Reliance Industries is the India's largest private sector enterprise and a Fortune 500 company. His personal stake in Reliance Industries is 48%.


Mukesh and younger brother Anil are sons of the late founder of Reliance Industries, Dhirubhai Ambani. Mukesh also owns the Indian Premier League team Mumbai Indians.

Mukesh Ambani completed his graduation with a bachelors degree in chemical engineering from the University Institute of Chemical Technology (UDCT), Mumbai. Mukesh later pursued an MBA (he did not complete the course) from Stanford University.

Mukesh Ambani joined Reliance in 1981 and initiated Reliance's backward integration from textiles into polyester fibres and further into petrochemicals. In this process, he directed the creation of 60 new, world-class manufacturing facilities involving diverse technologies that have raised Reliance's manufacturing capacities from less than a million tonnes to twelve million tonnes per year.

He directed and led the creation of the world's largest grassroots petroleum refinery at Jamnagar, Gujarat, India, with a present capacity of 660,000 barrels per day (33 million tonnes per year) integrated with petrochemicals, power generation, port and related infrastructure, at an investment of Rs 100000 crore (nearly $26 billion USD).

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INDRA NOOYI

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Name: Indra Nooyi


Date of Birth: October 28,1955


Education: Graduated from Madras Christian college, 1976


Finished MBA at Indian Institute of Management , 1978


Completed Masters of public and private Management from Yale university,1980


Currently: CEO, PepsiCo





Indra krishnamurthy Nooyi was born in Madras, India and is the current CEO of PepsiCo. The worlds fourth largest food and beverage company, makers of Frito -lay snacks, Pepsi beverages, Gatorade sports drink, Tropicana juices and Quark foods.She Worked at British textile company in India. Then she worked as a product manager for Johnson & Johnson in India. In 1978 she moved to United States to pursue her masters degree in management from Yale university. After graduating from the school she worked at Boston Consulting Group later she joined Motorola 1986. moved to Asea Brown Boveri, 1990; joined Pepsico as strategist, 1994; became CFO of Pepsico, 2000; became president of Pepsico, 2001. Nooyi has been steadily consolidating her power at PepsiCo, one of the largest companies in the world with $35 billion in annual revenue and a $105 billion market capitalization. Nooyi recommended spinning off Taco Bell, KFC and Pizza Hut, arguing PepsiCo couldn't bring enough value to the fast food industry. As a result, she played an inportant role in starting Tricon, currently known as Yum! Brands, the world's largest restaurant company in terms of system restaurants with over 34,000 restaurants in over 100 countries. Among the restaurants Yum! houses are Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC), Long John Silver's, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell. (source: click here)


According to Forbes list of 100 most powerful women Indra nooyi ranks #3 just behind #2 Sheila c. Bair Chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp and #1 Angela merkel chancellor of Germany. (Source: Click here). Nooyi played a crucial role in expanding PepsiCo to international market especialy with the $1.4billion acquisition of 75% stake in russian juice giant Lebedyansky. Indra Nooyi tops the Forbes list of Americas Highest paid female CEO's taking home $12.7 million and this puts her on 139 out of 500 all chiefs. Her strong determination to take PepsiCo to new heights, her ability to think strategically has made her role model of many and she establishes herself as one of the most successful business leaders of 21st century.

Carlos Slim

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Chair, TelMex and Carso Foundation

Carlos Slim Helu Biography

Name : Carlos Slim Helu
Date of Birth : January 28,1940
Place of Birth : Mexico City, Mexico
Race or Ethnicity : Middle Eastern
Education : National Auonomous university of Mexico (1961)
Nationality : Mexico
Fame: World's Richest Man (Forbes 2007)

Carlos Slim of Mexico, is an industrial titan whose holdings span telecom, banking, energy, tobacco and more, has built unimaginable wealth in one of the poorer countries in the Western Hemisphere. Son of a Lebanese immigrant, Slim made his first fortune in 1990 when he bought fixed line operator Telefonos de Mexico (Telmex) in a privatization. In December, America Movil struck a deal with Yahoo to provide mobile Web services to 16 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. Slim, 67, amassed wealth in a nation where per capita income is less than $6,800 a year and half the population lives in poverty. His wealth accounts to 6.3% of Mexico's annual economic output.TelMex controls more than 90% of the phone connections. His companies build roads and erect oil platforms, his banks loan money to businesses and consumers alike, and he even sells knickknacks through his Sanborn's retail chain.

He has a share in America Movil (wireless),Carso global telecom (Holding company), Grupo Carso( conglomerate),Inbursa( financial services), Ideal( Infrastructure), Saks Inc.( Us retailer) and according to Fobes his Total net worth is $58.5 billion. (Source: Fortune 500)

Why Carlos Slim is successfull? (Source: Wall Street Journal)

• He invested smartly when the economy was down.
• Expanded in to new Industries and markets
• Maintained a strong social relationship and bulid strong network
• Bought cheap companies and tries to establish monoply
• Targeted industries within one's sphere of influence
• Grooming new leaders and successors who can internalize his methods

Roman Abramovich

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Roman Arkadievich Abramovich: Russian BusinessmanFamous for : Becoming a billionaire from oil and for purchasing the English Premiership football club Chelsea F.C.

Born - 24th October 1966 Russia / Living

Current Wealth: US $ 23.5 billion according to Forbes magazine(March, 2008 edition)

Biography

Roman Abramovich is the owner of the investment company Millhouse Capital, the English Premiership football team called Chelsea Football Club, and is the governor of Chukotka in Russia. Despite his influential status in sports, oil, and politics, Abramovich is relatively private, granting few interviews over the years and making almost no public statements about his life or work.

Roman Arkadyevich Abramovich was born on October 24, 1966 to a Jewish family in Lithuania. His mother, Irina Ostrowski Abramovich, died whenbefore Roman was two and his father, Arkady Abramovich, was killed in an accident immediately after mother's death. Roman was raised by his paternal grandparents in Lithuania. Roman Abramovich attended the Industrial Institute in Ukhta. After that Abramovich attended the Moscow State Auto Transport Institute for a brief period before leaving the academic world for good.

In the late 1980s, Roman Abramovich began selling plastic ducks from his small apartment in Moscow. After a few years, Abramovich began investing in other businesses, expanding his wealth. In 1995 he partnered with Boris Berezovsky to purchase a controlling share of the oil company Sibneft for a sum of $100 million. At the time the company was estimated to be worth $150 million.

In 1999 Roman Abramovich began charitable work in the Chukotka region in Siberian Russia, a cold, impoverished region of the country. Abramovich was particularly interested in helping children and established the Pole of Hope charity to help the people of Chukotka. In December of 2000, Abramovich was elected governor of the region and has since invested millions of pounds in the development of its educational system, hospitals, and a college in Anadyr. Abramovich wanted to leave his position as governor in 2005, but Russian President Vladimir Putin eliminated the ability to elect regional governors and Abramovich was reappointed as regional governor to Chukotka for another term.

In 2003 Roman Abramovich purchased the Chelsea Football Club in the UK. The acquisition changed the marketing strategies of the game as well as the ability to "purchase" players. Due to Abramovich's personal wealth, he had the ability to build state of the art facilities and offer large salaries to players to join his team regardless of the financial status of the team itself. As a result, other teams have had to redirect wealth in order to keep up.

Roman Abramovich currently resides in West London and is known as the second richest person in the United Kingdom.

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