Success The Turning Point

Author(s): Rajendra Rakhecha
Publisher: Rajendra Rakhecha

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Banker - Deepak Parekh (18 Oct 1944, Padma Bhushan) As a Chartered Accountant, began career with Ernst & Young in New York, worked with Grindlays Bank , Chase Manhattan Bank & joined HDFC in 1978. Promoted to MD in 1985 and as Chairman in 1993. He was instrumental making HDFC one of India's premier housing finance institutions. He is Non-Executive Chairman of Glaxo (1) & Burroughs Wellcome (1) & Board member of Castrol (1), Hindustan Unilever, Siemens, M&M, Indian Hotels and SingTel. He held many Govt committees Projects - E Sreedharan (12 Jun 1932,Padma Vibhushan, Padmashri) A "Metro Man", Is an Indian civil engineer. Graduated Civil Engg, served at the Bombay Port Trust , Indian Railway after clearing IES-53 by UPSC. Later worked for Kolkata Metro, the first ever metro in India. Then CMD of Cochin Shipyard, CMD of Konkan Railway, Delhi Metro, Principal Advisor of the Kochi Metro Rail, Foundation for the Restoration of National Values with Ratan Tata. Awarded the Knight of the Legion of Honour by the Govt of France. Corporate - Indra Nooyi (28 October 1955, Padma Bhushan) Postgraduate from IIM,kolkatta, Yale school of management Joined PepsiCo in 1994 & was named president & CFO in 2001. Since then company grew multifold. Named on WSJ's 50 women list in 07 & 08, Time's 100 Most Influential People, Forbes #3 powerful woman in 08, Fortune ranked #1 most powerful woman in business 2009 & 10. While CEO of PepsiCo in 2011, a compensation of 20m$ Corporate - Software Entrepreneur Anand Deshpande (1962) Graduated B Tech in Computer Science Engineering, from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur '84 and Masters & Ph.D. in Computer Science, Indiana University in '89, founded Persistent Systems Limited in 1990 and serves as its Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director. Persistent Systems, has 6,000 employees and more than 300 customers spread across North America, Europe, and Asia. Space - Sunita Williams (19 Sep 1965) Graduated in Physical science from United States Naval Academy in 87, MS in Engineering Management from Florida. She is an American astronaut and a United States Navy officer. She holds the records for longest single space flight by a woman (195 days), total 7 spacewalks by a woman totaling 50 hours & 40 min putting in No. 5 on the list of most experienced spacewalkers. She served as a flight engineer on Expedition 32 and then commander of Expedition 33. Space - Kalpana Chawla (1 Jul 1961 - 1 Feb 03) Was an astronaut, a mission specialist on the space shuttle Columbia. She completed BE in Aeronautical Engg at Punjab Engg College at Chandigarh in 82, M.S. in aerospace engg from Uni of Texas in 84, second M.S. in 86 & Ph.D. in 88 from Uni of Colorado at Boulder. She began working at the NASA & became a