GREAT INDIAN

BUSINESS
PERSONALITIES
J.R.D TATA
 J.R.D. TATA
 JRD Tata was born on July 29, 1904 in Paris. He
was the second child of Mr Ratanji Dadabhoy
Tata.

 His full name was Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy

Tata

 He returned to India to join the family business.

He inherited most of his grandfather Jamshedji's
industrial empire but first became a pioneer in
aviation.
 He became the chairman of the company in 1938.Under
his leadership Tata Sons expanded into one of the largest
industrial empire in the country- from ironworks
,steelworks into chemicals, hotels, engineering and lot of
other industries.
 He promoted the Tata Engineering and Locomotive
Company (TELCO) with an objective to produce
locomotives for the Indian Railways. Today Telco has
emerged as the country’s largest Commercial Vehicle
producer..
 He founded Tata Airlines in 1932 and by 1953, it
developed and came to be known as Indian
Airlines and was the Chairman of the Indian
Airlines and Air India..

 his contributions to scientific and technical

research and corporate management gained
public recognition from the Indian Government..

 He was honoured by India's highest civilian

award, Bharat Ratna in 1991.
DHIRUBHAI AMBANI
 DHIRAJLAL HIRACHAND
AMBANI
 He was one of the leading Indian businessmen, was
born on December 28, 1932 in Chorwad, Gujarat.
Popularly known as Dhirubhai Ambani.

 He headed The Reliance Industries, India's largest

private enterprise.

 Reliance, acknowledged as one of the best-run

companies in the world has various sectors like
petrochemicals, textiles ,production of crude oil and
gas, to polyester and polymer products..
 The company has further diversified into
Telecom, Insurance and Internet Businesses, the
Power Sector.
 Now the Reliance group with over 85,000
employees provides almost 5% of the Central
Government's total revenue.
 He has been one among the select Forbes
billionaires His industrious nature and willingness
to take on any risk has made him what he is.
LAKSHMI MITTHAL
 LAKSHMI MITTHAL
 He is the Chairman and CEO of Mittal Steel.

 He is the fourth richest person in the world, with a

personal fortune of US$45.0 billion, and is named
2006 Person of the Year.

 He is the President of the Board of Directors and

CEO of Arcelor Mittal, the world's largest producer
of steel.

 He was born in Sadulpur, a village which didn't

have electricity until 1960's, in Rajasthan.
 He studied accounting and business at the
prestigious St. Xavier¶s College Calcutta.

 Mittal began his career in his father's steel firm in

the early seventies. With limited opportunities in
India, he moved to Indonesia in 1976 and
founded Ispat Indo and made the company a
success.

 His success has largely been built on buying up

loss-making state-owned mills and quickly
 turning them around.
 His successes in the late 1989, when he
turned around a loss-making steel firm in
Trinidad and Tobago. In a year, Mittal had
doubled the output and made the business
profitable where US consultants and
German experts failed to find a solution.

 He brought Arcelor on of the world¶s

number one steel companies.
SUNIL MITTAL
 SUNIL BHARTI MITTAL
 He is the founder, Chairman and Managing Director of Bharti
Group can be labelled as the most ambitious telecom
entrepreneur in India..

 He is a former student of Harvard Business School,

graduated from Punjab University. The son of a
parliamentarian he did not want to follow his footsteps.

 He started a full-fledged business selling portable generators

imported from Japan and that gave him the chance to involve
himself in activities like marketing and advertising in 80’s.
 He founded Bharti Telecom Limited (BTL) that was manufacturing
electronic push button phones in technical tie up with Siemens AG of
Germany.

 By the early 1990s, he was making fax machines, cordless phones and
other telecom gear. .

 His turning point came in 1992 when the government awarded licenses
for mobile services. He clinched a deal with the French telecom group
Vivendi.

 In 1995, Bharti Cellular Limited (BCL) was formed to offer cellular

services under the brand name AirTel.
 Bharti became the first telecom company to
cross the 2-million mobile subscriber mark.
 He has been honoured with several awards
like 'Stars Of Asia‘, Man of the Year Award
2002 .

 He has the credit of breaking the 100 year

old monopoly of state run companies to
operate telecom services in India.
 Mittal heads a successful empire focused
on different areas of business through
independent and joint ventures.

 He has a market capitalization of

approximately $ 2 billion, employing over
5,000 people and still growing.
NARAYAN MURTHY
 N.R. NARAYANA MURTHY
 He is the chairman of Infosys Technologies one of the
biggest IT empire in India.

 He obtained his Bachelor of Electrical Engineering (B.E.)

from University of Mysore in 1967 and his Master of
Technology (M.Tech.) from IIIT, Kanpur in 1969.

 He took up employment with SESA in Paris in his early

seventies. He worked with a team to design a real time
operating system for handling air cargo for Charles de
Gaulle airport in France.

 He came back to India after 3 years and took up a job with

Patni Computer Systems in Pune.
 He founded Infosys Technologies in 1981
with six software professionals that became
one of the leading software company.

 Infosys became the first India-registered

company to be listed on an American stock
exchange.
 Murthy's ability to put forth his viewpoints and
all his other qualities make him a unique
personality.
 He held several coveted positions in his career
such as member of the National Information
Technology Task Force of India, the Prime
Minister's Council on Trade and Industry, Director
on the board of RBI and is also on the Wharton
Business School's Asian Executive Board.

 He should be credited for making India one of the

known names in the IT world.
AZIM PREMJI
 Azim Hasham Premji
 Premji is the founder of Wipro Limited, India's biggest
and most competitive IT company based in Bangalore.

 He joined his family business of vegetable cooking oils in the

Western India Vegetable Product company which later
became Wipro Products Ltd.

 Under his leadership Wipro embarked on an ambitious phase

of expansion and diversification , namely Wipro Products Ltd,
Wipro Technologies and Wipro Corporation .

 He started manufacturing light bulbs ,consumer products

including soaps, baby care products, shampoos, powder etc
under the flagship company Wipro Products Ltd.
 He started Wipro Fluid Power, a business unit
manufacturing hydraulic cylinders and truck tippers in
1975. His ambitions did not stop there.

 He entered the IT field in 1980s, Wipro became

involved in manufacturing computer hardware, software
development and related items

 It diversified into integrated corporation in services,

medical systems, technology products and consumer
items with offices worldwide..
 His story of success and prominence clearly
shows how determination and perseverance,
when coupled with knowledge, clear vision
and proper planning, enable one to reach the
peak of success and leadership.
 He established Azim Premji Foundation, a
not-for-profit organization with a vision of
influencing the lives of millions of children by
facilitating elementary education.
THANK YOU
INDIRA NOOYI
INDIRA NOOYI

INDRA NOOYI
 Indra Krishnamurthy Nooyi is her full name and
she belongs to the Southern Indian city of
Chennai. She was born in 28 October 1955 in
Madras.

 She has done her graduation from Madras

Christian College (MCC) in Chemistry, Physics
and Math. She went to IIM of Calcutta for MBA
in Finance and Marketing.

 She completed her Master’s in Public and

Private Management form Yale
• She had worked with Boston Consulting Group
and Motorola. Indra coaxed the CEO Roger
Enrico of the Pepsi to follow-up the company’s
restaurant division, including brands such KFC,
Pizza Hut and Taco Bell, as the chief strategy
officer.

• She have a quick decision making ability and

sticking to the work until it’s got accomplished.

• She is the only Indian woman to become the

Chief Executive Officer of the more $ 25 Billion
Multinational Company PEPSICO.
• Indra Nooyi has got the India Abroad Person of
the Year award in the year 2007.

• Indra Nooyi has been named the winner of the

Chicago United 2008 Bridge Award

• She received the Padma Bhushan award by the

Government of India in 2007.

•She received the CEO of the year in 2009

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
• She was born on March 23, 1953 in
Bengaluru.

• Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw completed her

schooling from the city’s Bishop Cotton Girl’s
High School (1968).

• She took up biology and completed her B.Sc

Zoology Honors course from Bangalore
University (1973). She later did her post-
graduation in Malting and Brewing from
Ballarat College, Melbourne University (1975).
• In the year 1978, she started Biocon in the
garage of her rented house in Bangalore with
a seed capital of Rs. 10,000.
• She is responsible for steering Biocon on a
trajectory of growth and innovation over the
years.
•Biocon became the first Indian biotech
company to receive US funding for proprietary
technologies.
•By 2003 Biocon became the first company
worldwide to develop human insulin on a
Pichia expression system.
• Biocon’s IPO was oversubscribed by 32
times.

•Biocon is only the second Indian company to

cross the $1-billion mark on the first day of
listing.

•In 2007-08, a leading US trade publication,

Med Ad News, ranked Biocon as the 20th
leading biotechnology companies in the world
• She received Nikkei Asia Prize (2009) for
Regional Growth, Express Pharmaceutical
Leadership Summit Award (2009) for Dynamic
Entrepreneur.

• ‘Businesswoman of the Year’ (2004) by the

Economic Times.

•She has also received the Karnataka Rajyotsava

Award (2002).

• She also received an honorary Doctorate of

Science in 2004, from her alma mater, Ballarat
University