March 2014
CEO’s
Ruling India
A chief executive officer (CEO) is the highest-ranking corporate officer (executive)
or administrator in charge of total management of an organization. An individual
appointed as a CEO of a corporation, company, organization, or agency typically
reports to the board of directors. Terms often used as synonyms for CEO
include managing director (MD) and chief executive (CE). We have generated a
list of some top ranked CEOs of India starting from Mukesh Ambani leading at
top of the list, followed by Azim Premji and Chanda Kochhar.
Mukesh D Ambani
Company: Reliance Industries
Mukesh Ambani joined Reliance in 1981 and initiated Reliance's backward
integration journey from textiles into polyester fibers and further into
petrochemicals, petroleum refining and going up-stream into oil and gas
exploration and production.
He is also steering Reliance's development of infrastructure facilities and
implementation of a pan-India organized retail network spanning multiple
formats and supply chain infrastructure.
Azim Premji
Company: Wipro
Azim Premji has been at the helm of Wipro since his return from Stanford
University in the late 1960's, turning what was then a $2 million
hydrogenated cooking fat company into the $ 7.3 billion revenue IT, BPO
and R&D Services organization with a presence in 54 countries.
Premji started at Wipro driven by one basic idea - to build an organization
which was deeply committed to Values, in the firm belief that success in
business would eventually but inevitably follow.
Ratan Tata
Company: Tata Group
Now retired Ratan N Tata was the Chairman of Tata Sons, the holding
company of the Tata group, from 1991 till his retirement on December 28,
2012. He was also chairman of the major Tata companies, including Tata
Motors, Tata Steel, Tata Consultancy Services, Tata Power, Tata Global
Beverages, Tata Chemicals, Indian Hotels and Tata Teleservices. Ratan Tata
has been conferred the honorary title of Chairman Emeritus of Tata Sons.
Chanda D Kochhar
Company: ICICI Bank
Chanda Kochhar is the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of
ICICI Bank Limited, India's second-largest bank. Kochhar began her career,
with erstwhile ICICI Limited in 1984 and was elevated to the Board of
Directors of ICICI Bank in 2001. She was instrumental in establishing ICICI Bank
during the 1990s, and subsequently headed the infrastructure finance and
corporate banking business in ICICI Limited. In 2000, she took on the
challenge of building the nascent retail business, with strong focus on
technology, innovation, process reengineering and expansion of distribution
and scale.
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