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  • Forbes India presents Leadership Awards with a galaxy of industry captains in attendance

    Anand Mahindra is Forbes India ‘Entrepreneur for the Year 2013’

    Forbes India Leadership Awards Winners

     

    By A Correspondent

     

    With the Twitter, there has been a sudden and very dramatic shift of power to the consumer and businessmen can use the microblogging platform to build brand credibility and counter negative word-of-mouth.

     

    Words of wisdom from Anand Mahindra, Chairman and Managing Director, Mahindra & Mahindra, who was declared ‘Entrepreneur of the Year’ at the third annual Forbes Leadership Awards.

     

    The evening started with opening remarks by Forbes editor-in-chief R Jagannathan. Other than the awards, there were a set of three debates moderated by Adil Zainulbhai, Chairman-India of McKinsey & Co.

     

    A high-powered jury headed by Mr KV Kamath, non-executive chairman of ICICI Bank, comprised Mr Zainulbhai, Akhil Gupta, Chairman of Blackstone Advisors India, Ajit Rangnekar, Dean of the Indian School of Business, Zia Modi, Senior Partner, AZB Partners, and Raghav Bahl, Founder and Group Editor of Network18. KPMG was knowledge partner of the event.

     

    The following is the list of winners at the Forbes India Leadership Awards 2013:

    1.Start Up for the Year

    Phanindra Sama – redBus

     

    2. Nextgen Entrepreneur for the Year

    Tarang Jain – Varroc Engineering

     

    3. Entrepreneur with Social Impact

    Ranjan Sharma – IKSL

     

    4. Conscious Capitalist Company for the year

    HUL

     

    5. Best CEO – Multinational Company

    Francisco D’souza – Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp

     

    6. Best CEO – Public Sector

    Rakesh Tandon – IRCTC

     

    7. Best CEO – Private Sector

    Chanda Kochhar – ICICI Bank

     

    8. Woman Leader for the Year

    Chitra Ramkrishna – NSE

     

    9. Lifetime Achievement Award for the Year

    Brijmohan Lall Munjal – Hero MotoCorp

     

    10. Entrepreneur for the Year

    Anand Mahindra – Mahindra & Mahindra

     

  • Big names in Indian business make it an evening to remember at the Forbes India Leadership Awards 2012

    Honchos win top honours at Forbes India Leadership Awards 2012

    By A Correspondent

     

    Forbes India announced the names of the awardees at the second edition of the much awaited Forbes India Leadership Awards in Mumbai on the weekend. Celebrating transformational leadership, this year Forbes India honoured outstanding leaders who have epitomized success in their fields and are the visionary champions in creating a sustainable future.

     

    After an exhaustive screening process, the shortlisted nominees were scrutinized by the jury panel comprising industry veterans like K V Kamath (chairman of the jury), Adil Zainulbhai, Zia Mody and other prominent business personalities. The award winners are:

     

    Outstanding Start-up – Manish Khera / Rishi Gupta – FINO

    NextGen Entrepreneur for the Year – Vinod Ramnani, Opto Circuits

    Best CEO – Public Sector – M D Mallya, Bank of Baroda

    Best CEO – Private Sector – N Chandrashekharan, TCS

    Best CEO – Multinational -Nitin Paranjpe, HUL

    Woman Leader for the Year -Mallika Srinivasan, TAFE

    Entrepreneur with Social Impact -William Bissell, FabIndia

    Entrepreneur for the Year – Kumar Mangalam Birla, Aditya Birla Group

    Conscious Capitalist for the Year – Kamil Hamied, CIPLA

    Lifetime Achievement – E Sreedharan, Delhi Metro Rail Corporation

     

    The awards were given at a glittering ceremony attended by the who’s who of corporate India. One of the highlights of the evening was the three-minute talk given by some of the most illustrious names in the industry on the topic “The one thing that will change everything for people in this room, except that they haven’t heard of it.”

     

    Adil Zainulbhai, MD, McKinsey & Co, India stated that all leaders need to consider humility as an important personality trait. He also mentioned that leaders must also remember other leaders who were unassuming enough to help them when required.

     

    William Bissell, MD, FabIndia spoke about how we need new methods of measuring progress as conventional ones have failed. He also pointed out that what’s going to change in the future is how we define success and benefit.

     

    Karl Slym, MD & CEO, Tata Motors spoke about the future of transportation. How about living in an age where smart cards actually drop you right at your doorstep? More greenery and more open space is the road ahead. He also stated that the speed of decision-making is the key for leadership.

     

    More details on the awards, jury, winners and nominees are at http://forbesindia.com/leadershipawards/index.html

     

    Speaking on the occasion, Gurmeet Singh, CEO, Forbes India said, “The response we have received for the second year of Forbes India Leadership Awards is tremendous and very encouraging. We are delighted with the wonderful and out-of-the-box ideas shared this evening and hope that this platform inspires new and more absorbing conversations to be taken forward.”

     

    The presentation ceremony was concluded with a ‘fireside chat’ between Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev, founder of the Isha Foundation, and K V Kamath, non-executive chairman, ICICI Bank and chairman, Infosys. In this chat anchored by Indrajit Gupta, Editor – Forbes India, the duo explored some of the key challenges facing Indian business leaders over the next five years. They also discussed how business leaders prepare themselves and their organisations for this journey.