Linkedin is one of the popular professionally driven social networking platforms with millions of professionals online, from all strata of worldwide industries. They all talk about business by creating profiles and developing connections to nurture real work professional relationship. This platform is also hub to some great Indian Influencers who have already carved a niche in the global business ecosystem. Let’s have an insight on which all these Indian influencers are! Anant Gupta – CEO of HCL Wearing many hats, Anant Gupta, President and CEO of HCL, has been a great strategist and operational leader of HCL. His engagement with HCL, since its nascent time, has made him a strong pillar of this company. Born in Delhi, Anant obtained B.Sc (Honors) in Physics and M.Sc in Engineering from Liverpool University, UK. Having authored “The Blackbook on the Remote Infrastructure Management (RIM) - Demystifying the third ‘wave’ of Outsourcing”, he is also a founder member of NASSCOMs’ RIM Forum. He is a great incubator for new approach to Application Management and Digital System Integration for strategic development of apps. He serves as Trustee of HCLT Foundation, and have earned “2014 Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEPs) Leadership Award – 7 Principles" for his efforts to empower women employees. Ram Charan – Global Advisor, Author & Speaker Having 35 years of working with top firms and CEO, Ram Charan is known to simplify complexity of business processing and device real world solutions. Having penned 15 books on business, like “Leaders At All Levels”, “Boards At Work”, “Know How and Execution” and many more, Ram Charan has earned many laurels like, Thinkers 50, Global Indian of 2010 by The Economic Times of India etc. He has been elected as a Fellow of the National Academy of Human Resources and has also served boards of Tyco Electronics, Austin Industries, Fischer and Porter, Hindalco, Emaar. He nurtured many CEOs through in-house executive education programs. Narendra Modi – Prime Minister of India PM of India – Narendra Modi has made a mark in both domestic and global platform for being elected as the CM of Gujarat for record 4 consecutive term. Coming from a very poor family, Narendra Modi, learnt the value of hard work and sufferings of common man. He has been serving the nations from a very young age that made him a ‘people’s leader’. He’s a perfect example of courage, conviction and courage; good governance. He is known to be the most tech-savvy leader of India, reaching out common man through social networking to bring changes in their lives. His approach towards reaching people has brought a huge paradigm shift in approaching people leveraging technology. This has initiated a new era of modern political approach to rejuvenate Indian politics. Kris Gopalakrishnan – Co Founder of Infosys Having served as the co-founder and MD of Infosys, Kris has been a technology evangelist and has been voted as the Top CEO in IT category in Institutional Investor's inaugural ranking of Asia's Top Executives and winner of Asian Corporate Director Recognition Awards in 2011 by Corporate Governance Asia. Having earned his Master’s degree in computer science and physics from the IIT Madras, he bagged Padma Bhushan and has served as the board member of IIM Bangalore, IIT Chennai. He served as International Advisory Boards of China Europe International Business School and New York Academy of Sciences. He has been elected President of Confederation of Indian Industry and also served as the co-chairman of the World Economic Forum. The laurels are countless! Deep Nishar – Production Head, Linkedin Having served Linkedin as Vice President of Product, Deep Nishar, obtained his Bachelors in Technology with honors from IIT Kharakpur and Masters in Business Administration from Harvard Business School where he was honored as Baker Scholar. He also earned M. Sc in Electrical Engineering from University of Illinois. Co-author of eight patents, Deep has also worked in Google where he established mobile business beginning and won Google Foundation Award. He has been instrumental in mentoring the start ups from growth to acquisition. He is currently serving Auction as Advisory and is also on board of internet firms like Opower and TripAdvisor. Multifarious contributions! Deepak Chopra – Author, Public Speaker Spiritual guru, an India born American author and speaker, Deepak Chopra has been one of the most influential alternative medicine advocate and supporter of different popular forms of spirituality. Also known as “controversial New-Age guru”, Deepak penned 75 books with 21 of them became the bestsellers. He founded The Chopra Foundation for mind/body healing. In addition, he also co-founded The Chopra Center for Wellbeing with his colleague David Simon to help people obtain emotional freedom, physical healing and greater states of consciousness. His approach towards harmonizing mind, body and soul has been unique, which distinct him from other spiritual gurus. Dharmesh Shah – Founder/CEO of HubSpot He is the co-founder and CTO of HubSpot, which is instrumental in offering inbound marketing tools and software to attract and convert customers. Dharmesh has co-authored “Inbound Marketing: Get Found Using Google, Social Media and Blog”, which was translated in top 8 different languages. He also owns OnStarups.com, having 290,000 community members that mentor startups. He has BS degree in Computer Science and MS in Management of Technology from UAB and MIT respectively under his belt. His innovative ideology and approach towards inbound marketing earned him the name as one of the most influential Indian in online ecosystem. Kiran Mazumdar Shaw – CMD of Biocon She has been named amongst TIME magazine’s 100 Most Influential People across the world and also 10 Most Powerful Women CEOs by Economic Times in 2012. Kiran earned the laurel of being the most influential bio-businesspersons outside Europe and USA declared by Nature Biotechnology. Having built Biocon, which is an innovative bio-pharma company, she earned countless laurels and has been blessed with several national and international awards. It includes Padma Bhushan and Padmashri awards in 2005 and 1989 respectively. She is also the Chairperson of Karnatakas’s Vision Group on Biotechnology and Honorary Counsel of Ireland in Bangalore. Her offbeat perception earned her the most influential place in Indian stage. Ajay Banga – President and CEO at MarterCard Having begun his career in Nestle, India, Ajay took assignments spanning from sales, marketing to general overall management. He earned a B.A. degree in Economics from Delhi University and an alumnus of IIM, Ahmedabad, he also worked as CEO of Citigroup Asia Pacific and was accountable for overall business in the region. Later he joined MasterCard as the member of board of directors. Currently serving as member of the Board of Overseas of the Weill Cornell Medical College, he is also the member of The Economic Club of New York, International Advisory Board of the Moscow School of Management. Having a great wealth of exposure, he has served Board of Directors of Kraft Foods too. All these accomplishments made him one of top Indian influencers. Vivek Wadhwa – Researcher, Writer and Entrepreneur Vice President of Innovation and Research at Singularity University; Director of Research at the Center for Entrepreneurship and Research Commercialization at Pratt School and Engineering and many more, Vivek Wadhwas’ authored a book ”The Immigrant Exodus: Why America Is Losing the Global Race to Capture Entrepreneurial Talent” which was declared as the book of the year 2012 by The Economist. Advisor to several governments; he mentored entrepreneurs and he has been featured in number of publications like The Washington Post, Wall Street Journal to name a few. Ajay found two software companies also prior to joining academia. His excellent understanding in multiple sphere of academia helped him become one of the influencers of India. Above stated is the concise list of Indian influencers that have given the worldwide economy and business a new perception. Most of these influencers come from modest background but their exceptional vista of future and focused approach towards their respective goals led them where they’re today! It gives hope to the millennials for pushing their limits and reaching their goals. Be focused and explore your limits!
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