HIGH FLYERS

Chandrasekaran Started his career by working as an intern in Tata Consulting Services in year 1987 and with his hard work he climbed up in the company. He became the COO (Chief operating officer) in 2007 and in 2009 got the position of CEO (Chief Executive Officer) in the Tata Consulting Services.

Gurnani started his career with hard work and joined Tech Mahindra in November 2004, when the company was known as Mahindra British Telecom. In his 35 years of career span, he has worked with HCL, Hewlett Packard Limited, Perot Systems (India)Limited and HCL Corporation Ltd at leading positions.

Gupta started his carrier in 1992 by joining his father’s Company and served as a non-executive director. He has supported his father for Constant 22 Years before acquiring this Position and worked hard in the business which led Havells acquisition of the European lighting company Sylvania and restructured as Havells Sylvania.

Shanghvi started by helping his father in his business, which was a wholesale dealership of medicines, mainly generic drugs, in Kolkata. It was during this work that he thought of manufacturing his own drugs instead of selling products made by others. In 1982, Dilip Shanghvi opened his manufacturing unit, with a capital of INR 10,000, named Sun Pharmaceutical Industries to make psychiatric drugs.

Laguarta is the first Spanish CEO of an American multinational company, PepsiCo. He is associated with PepsiCo for over 25 years. He began his career at Chupa Chups, a candy company based in Spain popularly known for its lollipops. He spent over 8 years in Chupa Chups and held different managerial roles. In 1996, he joined PepsiCo and worked in the company's European business, and in 2014 became the CEO of the entire Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa (ESSA) sector.

Rajesh Gopinathan has been working with the Tata Consulting Services (TCS) for over 21 years. Rajesh began his career in 1996 with Tata Strategic Management Group and worked there on multiple assignments with the Tata companies. Working for over 4 years at Tata Strategic Management Group, he joined the Tata Consultancy Services in January 2001. From 2001 to 2013, for almost 12 years he held multiple roles at the Tata Consultancy Services from the Tata Industries. He was responsible for driving TCS’ newly established e-business unit in the United States.

Before serving as the CEO of the company, he served as the President and Chief Operating Officer(COO) of Forbes from 2011 to 2016. Michael has an experience of over 25 years in the media industry. He has held top positions as Publisher of Fortune magazine, Group Publisher of the Time Inc. Business & Finance Network, and Group Publisher of the Bonnier Mountain Group in Boulder, Colorado.

Sandhya Devanathan has a 22-year of career experience in banking, payments, and technology. She began her career with Citigroup in May 2000, she worked as a Webmaster & Product Manager - at Citibank Online, e-Business Team. After working for over 9 years, Sandhya left Citigroup in 2009 as Director- Sales Performance Management in the United States. From December 2009 to December 2015, she worked with Standard Chartered. She worked for over 6 years with Standard Chartered and held various leadership roles.

Sridhar Vembu is best known for establishing the multimillion-dollar Zoho Corporation from scratch and without any external capital, which now competes directly with industry giants such as Microsoft, Google, Oracle, and Salesforce.com. Vembu's company Zoho grew 38% in the past year to hit 80 million global users as of July 2022. In 2021, Vembu was named the 55th richest person in India with a net worth of $3.75 billion, according to Forbes. Vembu began his career in 1994, working for Qualcomm as a wireless engineer in San Diego, California.

Amit Jain an IITian will soon be seen in the second season of 'Shark Tank', he replaced a crucial shark, Ashneer Grover in the show. Amit Jain has an estimated net worth of Rs. 2900 crores. Amit began his entrepreneurial journey in 2006 when he along with his brother Anurag Jain left their jobs and came to Jaipur to start their business as a software outsourcing company.  They began their business of GirnarSoft in 2007 and turned their small home garage into an office.