Vijay Mallya Chairman, United Breweries Group & Kingfisher Airlines Mallya took over as chairman of United Breweries

Group in 1984. In May 2007, United Breweries Group announced the all-cash acquisition of scotch whisky maker Whyte & Mackay for pound 595 million (approximately Rs 6000 crore).In 2005, Mallya established Kingfisher Airlines, which later bought a 26 per cent stake in Air Deccan, a low cost Indian airline. Mallya later rebranded it as Kingfisher Red.In 2007, Mallya and the Mol family from The Netherlands bought the Spyker F1 team for euro 88 million. The team changed its name to Force India F1 from the 2008 Season.Mallya's United Breweries sponsors the East Bengal and MohunBagan football clubs in Kolkata.He also was part of the consortium that acquired Queens Park Rangers FC, as part of the Bernie Ecclestone, FlavioBriatore and Lakshmi Mittal.Mallya also owns the Royal Challengers Bangalore team in the Indian Premier League.Mallya entered politics in 2000 and replaced Subramanian Swamy as the president of the Janata Party. He is a Member of Parliament in RajyaSabha.In 2004, he placed the winning bid of pound 175,000 for the sword of Tipu Sultan at an auction in London, and brought it back to India.In March 2009, Mallya successfully bid for the belongings of Mahatma Gandhi at $1.8 million, in a New York auction.

Adi Godrej Chairman & Managing Director, Godrej Group

He took the Godrej Group to great height even during controlled economy era.
An industrialist and a philanthropist, Godrej modernised and systematised management structures and implemented process improvements. After India's economy was 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 through which each business became a stand-alone company with a CEO/COO from outside the Godrej family. Godrej, a major supporter of the World Wildlife Fund in India, has developed a green business campus in the Vikhroli township of Mumbai, which includes a 150-acre mangrove forest and a school for the children of company employees.

NagavaraRamaraoNarayana Murthy Founder & chief mentor, Infosys

He was the CEO

of the company for 21 years, from 1981 to 2002. After stepping down as CEO in 2002, he has broadened his scope of activities to social services as well as promoting India globally. Murthy started a new venture capital fund called Catamaran Venture Fund with the money he got by selling 800,000 Infosys shares worth Rs 174 crore (Rs 1.74 billion). His wife, Sudha Murthy, also helped him set up his VC fund by giving him Rs 430 crore (Rs 4.3 billion) which she got by selling quarter of her stake in Infosys. Murthy siad, "I want Infosys to be a place where people of different genders, nationalities, races and religious beliefs work together in an environment of intense competition but utmost harmony, courtesy and dignity to add more and more value to our customers day after day."