Some Indian Business Leaders who inspire!

From the License Raj to the post-liberalisation era, Indian business has travelled a long way. During this journey, several men and women have radically changed the business scenario in India and elsewhere.

Here’s a list of some brilliant men and women who, in the past 20 years, have contributed immensely in shaping the course of India Inc.

1. Ratan Naval Tata, Chairman, Tata Group :

Here’s a man whose achievements speak for itself:

1991 - Becomes group chairman pushing out the old guard and ushering in younger managers. During the course Tata Consultancy Services goes public and Tata Motors gets listed on NYSE.
1998 – Tata Motors launches their first indigenously made Tata Indica.
2007 - Tata Sons acquires Corus Group, making them the fifth largest steel producing entity in the world.
 2008 – Tata Motors acquires Jaguar & Land Rover from Ford Motor Company.
2009 – Launches the world’s cheapest car, Nano.

2. Adi Godrej
Chairman & Managing Director, Godrej Group

An industrialist and a philanthropist, Godrej modernised and systematised management structures and implemented process improvements.
After India's economy opened up, Godrej restructured the company's policies to meet the challenges of globalisation. In the early 2000s, the group completed a 10-year restructuring process with each business becoming a stand-alone company having a CEO/COO from outside the Godrej family.

3. Kushal Pal Singh
Chairman &CEO, DLF Ltd

K P Singh had joined American Universal Electric Company in 1960 and soon after its merger with DLF Universal Limited in 1979, he took over as the managing director of DLF which in turn made Gurgaon a world-famous outsourcing destination in span of a decade because of the world-class earthquake-proof office buildings, apartments, shopping malls and leisure.
In 2008 Kushal became the world's richest real estate tycoon.
 DLF has an estimated land bank of 10,255 acres.

4. Chanda Kochhar
MD & CEO, ICICI Bank

Kochhar has also consistently figured in Fortune's list of 'Most Powerful Women in Business' since 2005. In May 2009 she took over the reins of ICICI from K V Kamath.
She debuted at number 20 in the Forbes 'World's 100 Most Powerful Women in 2009.

5. Azim Hashim Premji
Chairman, Wipro Limited

At the age of 21 Aziz Premji took over the family business -- Western India Vegetable Product Company -- when his father, M H Premji, suddenly passed away in 1966. The Western India Vegetable Product later became Wipro Products Ltd, Wipro Technologies and Wipro Corporation.

Under Aziz’s leadership Wipro embarked on an ambitious phase of expansion and diversification. The Company began manufacturing light bulbs with General Electric and other consumer products including soaps, baby care products, shampoos, powder

In the 1980s Wipro entered the IT field, taking advantage of the expulsion of IBM from the Indian market in 1975.
Premji has been recognised by Business Week as one of the greatest entrepreneurs globally. In 2009, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, for his outstanding philanthropic work.

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Source : Rediff