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Business Leaders from India

7 of 47 profiles published so far.

Conglomerate

Nikhil Nanda

The third generation industrialist who leads the tractor maker Escorts into a partnership with Japan's Kubota, while carrying a famous lineage linking Indian industry and Bollywood.

Shantanu Narayen, chairman and chief executive of Adobe
Tech

Shantanu Narayen

The Hyderabad born engineer who has run Adobe since 2007, transforming it from a boxed software maker into a cloud powerhouse and one of tech's most admired chief executives.

Conglomerate

Jeet Adani

The younger son of Indian billionaire Gautam Adani, rising within the family's vast conglomerate as part of the next generation set to inherit one of Asia's largest empires.

Sanjay Mehrotra, president and chief executive of Micron Technology
Semiconductors

Sanjay Mehrotra

The engineer who co-founded SanDisk and reinvented flash storage, then took over Micron and steered the memory chip giant into the heart of the artificial intelligence boom.

Beauty

Ghazal Alagh

The co-founder who turned a parent's search for safe products into Mamaearth, and became one of the most recognizable women in Indian business.

Peyush Bansal, co-founder and CEO of Lenskart
Retail

Peyush Bansal

The engineer who left Microsoft to rebuild how India buys glasses, turning Lenskart into a ten billion dollar eyewear powerhouse.

Tech

Sanjeev Bikhchandani

The IIM graduate who built Naukri from a servant's quarter and made some of the most profitable bets in Indian internet history.