Indians CEOs International Companies

Whenever we talk about Indians at helm of International biggies, the first name that crops to mind is that of Indra Nooyi. Most of us would be hard pressed to name other Indians who head Fortune 2000 comapanies

And here I mean not people of Indian Origin(PIO) but those who were born in India and did atleast some education in India.

5 Indian appear in list of Highest paid CEOs

Indra Nooyi-CEO and Chairperson of PepsiCo Inc

Born in Chennai, PGDM from IIM Kolkotta and Master in management from Yale School of Management. Forbes and Fortune Magazine have included her in Top positions in the list labelled World's most powerful women..

Sanjay Jha- CEO and Chairman of Motorola Mobility

Born in Bhagalpur(Bhagalpur Blindings), Bihar in 1963. He holds a PHD in Electrical Engineering. Before heading Motorola, Sanjay was the COO of Qualcomm.

Vikram Pandit-CEO of Citigroup

Born in 1957 in Nagpur(Orange City). Vikram Pandit holds a PHD in Finance from Columbia Business School. Initially he started as a professor at Indiana University and was later amongst the first Indians to be inducted into Morgan Stanley.
Now famous for bringing Citigroup back from oblivion after the previous CEO Chuck Prince was forced to resign. Vikram is also known for walking the talk by only taking $1 as his compensation as CEO till Citi comes back to sustainable profit(though he did get $165 million for his Hedge fund in 2008. Citi has also announced $16 million retention Bonus as its started making profit now)..Way to go ...

Ravi Saligram-CEO of OfficeMax

An alumnus of Bangalore University and previously the President of Aramark International. The otherwise Electrical Engineer from India has spent most of his career in Brand Management and Business Strategy
Ravi Saligram has taken oven from Sam Duncan to lead Officemax, the second biggest Office Supply retailer. With revenues close to $9 billion, the Officemax employs around 32000 people.

Surya Mohapatra- CEO, President and Chairman of Quest Diagnostics

A PHD in Medical Physics from Royal College of Surgeons and Electrical Engineer from Sambalpur University,Orissa , Surya N Mohapatra has been heading Quest Diagnostics, an $ 8 billion enterprise for quite some time but tends to keep a low profile.


Then there are those who do not always hog the limelight but are stalwarts nontheless.

1.Dinesh Paliwal-Agra born Dinesh is an alumnus of IIT Roorkee and Currently the CEO and President of Harman International
2.Shantanu Narayen- Was born in Hyderabad and is the current CEO of Adobe Systems. MBA from Haas School of Business. Among his many accomplishments is the appointment to Barack Obama's Management Advisory Board.
3.Abhijit Talwakar-CEO and President of LSI corporation
4. Krish Prabhu- ex CEO of Tellabs
5 and 6. Rakesh Sachdev - CEO and President of SigmaAldrich. He Succeded Late Jai Nagarkatti, who had an untimely demise
6. Ajay Singh Banga- CEO Mastercard- IIM Ahmedabad Alumnus
7. MS Banga-(brother of Ajay)Ex-President Unilever Foods
8. Arun Sarin- Ex CEO of Vodafone. Resigned after great performance in Vodafone
9. Rajat Gupta- Ex- MD(CEO) of Mckinsey. Despite the current insider trading controversy, Calcutta born Rajat Gupta was the first Indian to break the glass ceiling and be appointed at CEO level in a US multinational. So all the current players have some one to thank for building acceptance in minds of the westerners.



Disclaimer- Information is for education purposes only. Error and Omissions are unintentional

Most Valuable Brands - Worldwide

The most valuable brands across the world..

Bouyed by strong success of "I" factor (ipod, iphone,ipad) Apple has displaced Google from the Numero Uno position in terms of the most valuable brand. Its a time of Tumultous transition for both the Mega brands as Apple stares into the future without the charishma of Steve Jobs while at Google, Eric Schmidt has handed the reins to Larry Page. Reckoning the history of these companies, I am tempted to rephrase Charles Dickens
" It is the best of times, it is the worst of times, it is the age of wisdom, it is the age of foolishness"

For sake of techies and nerdies and even general public, we hope that it is more of the former than the latter.

Almost all the players have some or other peculiarity associated with them.But make no mistake, they are big, big, gargantuan organisations.

McDonalds is at #4. The food Giant serves approximately 58 million customers daily. Thats almost 1% of the human population.

Coke with its 7X factor has left Pepsi behind in the cola wars.(Alteast in these rankings).And no amount of statutory warnings seem to be slowing down the Marlboro man.

Retail giant Walmart at 15th position also holds the pride of being the Largest Public corporation. and UPS- the largest Courier/Logistics company delivers 15 million packages daily.

Lets see who all are in the list...Here Goes

Compiled by Millward Brown

The Only Non American entry in top 10 is China Mobile.

The tiger however has a lot of catching up to do against the dragon..
Only Indian entry in top 100 is ICICI bank at #53 and is valued at $14.5 billion. Infosys finds a special mention even though its not in Top 100, but with current valuation at $8 Billion and strong leadership, its expected to break into the Top 100 soon.

The Facebook is expected to break into Top 20 soon, provided they are able to maintain the intensity..

To give a final perspective of the size that we are talking about, pls note that the total of top 20 brands is almost equal to GDP of India in the current calender year.



Disclaimer- The data has been compiled on basis of Millward report who hold the rights to information. This presentation is for education purpose only

Indian States GDP Comparision

Indian is a study of paradox- Thats now a cliche.
Rich country poor people. Unity in diversity..
Rich/Foreign rulers and Poor/indigenous Population.

A quest of the contrasts and the same contrasts can be seen in the way different states of India Perform..

Lets just see how..when we look at Per Capita GDP of these states

Monetary values are in INR. Delhi includes NCR

So where you find absolutely no surprise at the bottom, there is even lesser surprise at the Top. Goa riding on lower base population and the Capital on basis of high growth due to real estate and burgeoning peripherals of Gurgaon and other sub cities leave the rest of the country behind..and by quite some distance.

The regional disparity is very evident in the next 2 members with Haryana which is next to Delhi and Maharashtra which is next to Goa and is further bouyed by Mumbai the fiancial capital fo India..

Except Bihar, UP and J&K, all the Northern states are amongst top performers. All the Southern states perform well in parameters but eastern and Northeastern states end up with a below par performance.

States with lot of political problems like Insurgency (J&K and North East) and naxalism (MP and Orrisa) are the obvious laggards. Probably a strong argument can be made in favour of PEACE .........as Goa, a state which is definitely not the most industrialised and is extremely Tourism( a seasonal industry) dependent ends up at the top of the list as it has replaced Kashmir as the Top toursim destination for both Indian and Foreign Tourists ...
Mssrs Gilani and Lone.. are you listening..?

In fact even North east with its beautiful landscapes can take a leaf out of Goan book and prove that Industry or agriculture is not the only way to higher economic growth and terrorism or insurgency is definitely not the way forward..

Both Kashmir and North east are potentially strong Tourism destinations. Its time for the leaders of these states to rise above petty insidious politics and actually work to make the life of a common man better..

A case in point of Bihar which for many years has been at the bottom of the pile. Last 5 years have seen amazing growth rates for Bihar(economic growth, not population) and with all inclusive guidance of Nitish Kumar we may be very surprised in a couple of years and see Bihar rising from the current bottom of the grid postiton.

Top 5 states in terms of Total GDP are
Maharastra
UP (more due to extremely high population, than actual growth)
Andra Pradesh
Tamil Nadu
Gujarat

Lowest 5 states in terms of Total GDP
Sikkim
Mizoram
Arunchal
Nagaland
Manipur

An interesting Observation.
All the 3 recently created states (Uttarakhand, Jharkhand, Chattisgarh) have done much better than their erstwhile parent states of UP, Bihar and MP.

and not just better, new states are league ahead.
for eg. Uttarakhand is 2.5 times better than UP in per capita GDP ie an improvement of 150 %
Jharkhand is almost double that of Bihar in per Capita GDP i.e. An increase of 90% and even Chattigarh with all its problems is 40 % better than MP.

The fact that all the new states have done much better cannot be a simple coincidence.
Maybe a smaller state is practically easier to manage economically as well as politically....May be, Just maybe..

Does this give new credence to Telangana creation? More than just political agenda for few politicians, it may actually make some sense?


Disclaimer- All the data has been culled from different sources so a few errors may have crept in. The motive of the blog is just to be an educational aid and not to be statement against an individual , company, caste or state. Any error/omission/insinuation is unintentional.