Indra Nooyi:-

Indra Krishnamurthy Nooyi :-

She is the chairwoman and chief executive officer of PepsiCo, the world's fourth-largest food and beverage company.

Details:- born October 28, 1955 in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.

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-- On August 14, 2006, Nooyi was named the successor to Steven Reinemund as chief executive officer of the company. She was effectively appointed as CEO by PepsiCo's board of directors on October 1, 2006. According to the polls Forbes magazine conducted, Nooyi ranks fifth on the 2007 list of The World's 100 Most Powerful Women. Nooyi has been named the #1 Most Powerful Business Woman in the world in 2006 and 2007 by Fortune magazine

Early life and career:-

She completed her schooling from Holy Angels School, Madras. She received a Bachelor's degree in Chemistry from Madras Christian College in 1974, and immediately entered the PGDBA (Post-Graduate Diploma in Business Administration) program at the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. After graduating from IIM-C in 1976, she worked in India. She was admitted to Yale School of Management in 1978 for a master's degree in Management. Following her master's degree from Yale in 1980, Nooyi started at The Boston Consulting Group (BCG), from where she moved on to strategy positions at Motorola and ABB.
Nooyi is a Successor Fellow at Yale Corporation and serves on the board of several organizations, including Motorola, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the International Rescue Committee, and the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. Among her friends are former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who describes her as a "wild New York Yankees fan."
She lives in Greenwich, Connecticut with her husband, Raj K. Nooyi.
In 2007, she was awarded Padma Bhushan by Government of India. In 2008, she was elected to the fellowship of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Mukesh Ambani:-

Mukesh Ambani: chairman, managing director and the largest shareholder of Reliance Industries,

Born:- April 19, 1957 (1957-04-19) Colony of Aden, Yemen.

Mukesh Ambani (born April 19, 1957 in Yemen) is an Indian businessman and the world's fifth richest man, with a net worth of approximately $43 billion. He is the chairman, managing director and the largest shareholder of Reliance Industries, India's largest private sector enterprise and a Fortune 500 company. His personal stake in Reliance Industries is 48%. His wealth is valued at US$43 billion (according to Forbes), making him the fifth richest man in the world and the richest in Asia.

Mukesh and younger brother Anil are sons of the late founder of Reliance Industries, Dhirubhai Ambani. Mukesh also owns the Indian Premier League team Mumbai Indians.

Education:- Mukesh Ambani completed his graduation with a bachelors degree in chemical engineering from the University Institute of Chemical Technology (UDCT), Mumbai. Mukesh later pursued an MBA (he did not complete the course) from Stanford University.

Career:- Mukesh Ambani joined Reliance in 1981 and initiated Reliance's backward integration from textiles into polyester fibres and further into petrochemicals. In this process, he directed the creation of 60 new, world-class manufacturing facilities involving diverse technologies that have raised Reliance's manufacturing capacities from less than a million tonnes to twelve million tonnes per year.

He directed and led the creation of the world's largest grassroots petroleum refinery at Jamnagar, Gujarat, India, with a present capacity of 660,000 barrels per day (33 million tonnes per year) integrated with petrochemicals, power generation, port and related infrastructure, at an investment of Rs 100000 crore (nearly $26 billion USD).

Mukesh Ambani set up one of the largest telecommunications companies in India in the form of Reliance Communications (formerly Reliance Infocom) Limited. However, Reliance Infocom now is under Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group post the brothers' split.Had the two brothers not split, and Mukesh being the president , his net worth would have been around $85 billion ,making him the richest man on earth ever by a huge margin. Under Ambani's leadership, Reliance has entered retail business through its wholly owned subsidiary Reliance Retail.

Under him Reliance Retail has also launched a new chain called Delight stores and also signed a letter of intent with NOVA Chemicals to make energy-efficient structures for Reliance Retail.
Ambani owns the Indian Premier League team Mumbai Indians. He has also set up the Dhirubhai Ambani International School in Mumbai.

Mukesh Ambani bought the Antilia 49,000 square foot plot in year 2002 and the whole construction will rise to 570 feet with the height of 60 floors though the real construction would be of just 27 floors. The construction is at Altamount Road where the current land rates are at 75000Rs/square feet and 6 floors are already completed with the whole construction to be completed by september 2008. The top four floors, with a panoramic view of the city and the Arabian Sea beyond, are expected to be for Ambani, his wife Nita, mother Kokilaben and the couple’s three kids.

The new ambani’s home would have 3 helipads , Six floors for parking, a full floor for car maintenance, Balconies with gardens , Entertainment floor with 50 people seating floor, a refuge floor which would come in use in emergencies, facilities for athletics and a swimming pool, 2 full floors made of glass-front especially for guests of ambanis though BMC(Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation) officials have announced that the helipad permissions have not yet been granted.

Family:- Mukesh Ambani is son of one of the most prominent businessmen in India, the late Dhirubhai Ambani, an Indian entrepreneur and founder of Reliance Industries.
His brother Anil Ambani heads Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group with interests in telecom, power, natural resources, infrastructure and financial services. The Ambani brothers had a well-publicized spat after their father's death, which led to the Reliance Group being split between the two.
Mukesh Ambani is married to Nita Ambani, who looks after the social and charitable arm of Reliance Industries. They have three children: Akash, Isha and Anant.
Mukesh Ambani is currently building the world's most expensive home (valued at $2 billion). This will be a 60-story skyscraper (with only 27 floors) in downtown Mumbai. It may be called Antilia.
His family belongs to Modh Bania, a trading community in Gujarat, a coastal province of India. His mother is Kokilaben Ambani.

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Sam Pitroda:-

Satyanarayan Gangaram Pitroda, better known as Dr Sam Pitroda, born in:- Titlagarh, Orissa, is an inventor, entrepreneur and policymaker.

Currently:- chairman of India's National Knowledge Commission, he is also widely considered to have been responsible for India's communications revolution. He is the Chairman and CEO of World-Tel Limited, an International Telecommunication Union (ITU) initiative. He holds many key technology patents, has been involved in several startups, and lectures extensively around the world on management, governance and the implications of communications and information technology.

He is the founder and CEO of C-SAM, Inc, which has developed a suite of patented mobile transaction technology called OneWallet. The company has offices in London, Tokyo, and offshore development centres in India in Mumbai and Vadodara. He has served as an advisor to the United Nations and in 1992, his biography, 'Sam Pitroda: A Biography' was published, and became a bestseller on The Economic Times list for five weeks. Mr. Pitroda has lived mainly in Chicago, Illinois since 1964, with his wife and two children.

Early life:

He was born in India in Titilagarh, Orissa.His parents hailed from Gujarat and migrated to Orissa. They were deeply influenced by Gandhi and his philosophy. Sam Pitroda and his brother were sent to Gujarat to imbibe Gandhian philosophy. Sam completed his schooling from Vallabh Vidyanagar in Gujarat and completed his Masters in Physics and Electronics from Maharaja Sayajirao University in Vadodara. After completing a Masters in Physics from Maharaja Sayajirao University in Vadodara he went to the US and did his Masters in electrical engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago.

Throughout the late 1960s and early 1970s he was involved in the cutting edge technology research work in telecommunications and handheld computing. He is particularly known for having introduced microprocessors in telephone switches leading to early digital switching. His invention of the Electronic Diary in 1975 is now regarded as one of the earliest examples of hand-held computing. With over 100 patents to his credit Pitroda has been a leading name in telecommunications and information technology for over three decades.

He went on to found Wescom Switching. Wescom was acquired by Rockwell International, where Mr. Pitroda became a Vice President.

In 1983, he also designed his own computer-themed card game called Compucards which used binary numbers (1, 2, 4, 8...) instead of decimal and had a computer bug as the joker. The equivalent of a king in a regular deck of cards was the 'Programmer' that bore an uncanny resemblance to Mr. Pitroda himself.

During his four decades as an engineer Mr. Pitroda has been involved filing scores of patents in telecommunications. The latest set of patents relate to mobile phone based transaction technology which cover the entire spectrum of transactions, both financial and non-financial, via mobile phones.

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Steve Ballmer:-

Steve Ballmer Biography (Steven Anthony Ballmer): Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Microsoft Corporation

Famous for : Leading the giant software and technology company Microsoft. A viral video of Ballmer giving a very passionate speech was nicknamed "Dance Monkeyboy" and was remixed into a song called "Monkey Developers".

Ballmer details : Born - March 24, 1956 Detroit, Michigan, USA / Lives - USA.

Steve Ballmer is the Chief Executive Officer of the Microsoft Corporation, one of the world's leading software development companies. Microsoft is best known for its Windows operating system for personal computing devices and the Microsoft Office Suite.

Steven Anthony Ballmer was born in Detroit, Michigan on March 24th, 1956. His father was a Swiss immigrant who worked as a manager at the Ford Motor Company and his mother was a Jewish American. Raised with academic values, Ballmer graduated from Detroit County Day School in 1973 (where he now sits on the board of directors). While there he managed the school's basketball team and graduated as valedictorian.

With a perfect score of 800 in the mathematical section of the SATs, he was accepted into Harvard where he befriended Bill Gates, the man who eventually created Microsoft. Although Ballmer was interested in business and Gates prone to computer programming, they seemed to make a good match.

While in college, Steve Ballmer sold ads for the Harvard Crimson, managed the football team, and worked on the Harvard Advocate. After graduating magna cum laude in 1977 with a degree in applied mathematics, Ballmer joined the staff at Procter & Gamble to work as an assistant product manager. Despite his success working on publicity campaigns such as Duncan Hines Brownie Mix, Ballmer decided to return to school for his MBA after two years with the company. He quickly enrolled in Stanford Graduate School of Business.

After his first year at Stanford, Steven Ballmer decided to head up to Seattle to take a job with Microsoft for the summer. At the time Microsoft had only 23 employees and a total of $12.5 in annual sales. After a summer of work, Gates managed to convince Ballmer to quit school and work for Microsoft full time. They agreed on a salary of $50,000 and 7% ownership of the business. Ballmer never went back to Stanford.

As the first business manager hired by Bill Gates, Ballmer took control of employee pay scales and managed to double the number of employees. While Gates continued to work on the evolution of the software industry, Ballmer focused on building a greater financial structure for the company.

Over time Steve Ballmer headed various divisions within the company such as Operating Systems Development, Sales and Support, and Operations. With his strong work ethic and equally intensive management, Gates promoted Ballmer to President in July of 1998. Two years later he was named Chief Executive Officer when Gates resigned from the position. Although Bill Gates still maintains control over the "technological vision", Ballmer now controls the overall operations of Microsoft.

Ballmer sold of 8.3% of his stocks in 2003 but still maintains control over 4% of Microsoft shares. The same year saw Ballmer replacing Microsoft's employee stock option program with a stock grant program.

Steve Ballmer, a Detroit Pistons fan (NBA basketball team), has been happily married to Connie Snyder since 1990 and is the proud father of two sons. He is described as a funny, focused, passionate, sincere, and dynamic man that has infused Microsoft with energetic leadership and vision over his time with the company.

We can believe that we know where the world should go. But unless we're in touch with our customers, our model of the world can diverge from reality. There's no substitute for innovation, of course, but innovation is no substitute for being in touch, either.----Steve Ballmer

Sergey Brin:-

Sergey Brin Biography (Sergey Mihailovich Brin) : Google Co-Founder

Famous for : changing the way that people search the Internet by founding the Google search engine with Larry Page.

Brin details : Born - Moscow, Russia 1973 Lives - USA (moved to America at 5 years of age)

Sergey Mikhailovich Brin (Russian: born August 21, 1973) is a Soviet Union-born American entrepreneur who co-founded Google with Larry Page.
Brin currently holds the position of President of Technology at Google and has a net worth estimated at $18.5 billion as of March 9, 2007, making him the 26th richest person in the world and the 5th richest person in the United States, together with Larry Page. He is also the fourth-youngest billionaire in the world.

Early life and education:-
Sergey Mikhailovich Brin was born in Moscow, in the Soviet Union to a Jewish family, the son of Mikhail Brin and Evgenia Brin, both mathematicians who graduated from the Moscow State University. In 1979, when Brin was six, his family emigrated to the United States. Brin attended grade school at Paint Branch Montessori School in Adelphi, Maryland, but he received further education at home; his father, a professor in the department of mathematics at the University of Maryland, nurtured his interest in mathematics and his family helped him retain his Russian-language skills. In September 1990, after having attended Eleanor Roosevelt High School, Brin enrolled in the University of Maryland, College Park to study computer science and mathematics, where he received his Bachelor of Science degree in May 1993 with honors.

Brin began his graduate study in Computer Science at Stanford University on a graduate fellowship from the National Science Foundation. He earned his master's degree in August 1995 ahead of schedule in the process of his Ph.D. studies. He is on leave from his Ph.D. studies at Stanford.

Brin has also received an honorary MBA from the IE Business School.

Interest in search engines
Brin expressed interest in the Internet very early on in his studies at Stanford. He authored and co-authored various papers on data-mining and pattern extraction. He also wrote software to ease the process of putting scientific papers often written in TeX, a text-processing language, into HTML form, as well as a website for film ratings.

The defining moment for Brin, however, was when he met future co-president of Google, Larry Page. According to Google lore, Page and Brin "were not terribly fond of each other when they first met as Stanford University graduate students in computer science in 1995." Nevertheless, they soon found a common interest: retrieving relevant information from large data sets. Together, the pair authored what is widely considered their seminal contribution, a paper entitled "The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine."

Personal life;-
In May 2007, Brin married Anne Wojcicki in The Bahamas. Wojcicki is a biotech analyst, and a 1996 graduate of Yale University with a degree in biology. She co-founded 23andMe, a personal DNA genotyping service.
Brin's mother is diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease. In 2008, he donated a large sum to the University of Maryland School of Medicine, where his mother is being treated. Brin had the opportunity to use the services of 23AndMe and found that, although Parkinson's is generally not hereditary, both he and his mother possess a mutation of the LRRK2 gene, known as G2019S, which puts the likelihood of developing Parkinson's in later years between 20-80%.

Azim Premji:-

Azim Premji Biography : Wipro Technologies Company

Famous for : being one of India's richest men, billionaire software entrepreneur

Details : Born - July 24, 1945 India / Lives - Bangalore, India

Azim Premji (born July 24, 1945), an Indian businessman, is the Chairman & CEO of Wipro, one of the largest software companies in India. Its headquarters is in Bangalore, "the Indian Silicon City". Azim Premji was rated the richest person in the country from 1999 to 2005 by Forbes[2]. His wealth in 2006 was estimated at $14.8 Billion [3] which places him as the Fifth Richest Indian. He is now considered to be worth closer to 17.1 billion.

Azim H Premji was born to M.H. Hasham Premji. He attended St. Mary's School I.C.S.E. in Mazagaon, Mumbai. Premji was just finishing his undergraduate engineering studies at Stanford University in 1966 when his father passed away. He immediately returned to India where he took over the family's fledgling vegetable oil business, Western Indian Vegetable Products Limited (now called Wipro). Premji started off with a simple vision: to build an organization on a foundation of values. Premji eventually received permission to take correspondence art courses to complete the requirements for his bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering.

Mr.Premji is married to Yasmeen, the couple have two children, Rishad and Tariq. Rishad is married to Aditi.
Mr.Premji is known for his modesty and frugality in spite of his wealth. He drives a Toyota Corolla and flies economy class, prefers to stay in company guest houses rather than luxury hotels and even served food on paper plates at a lunch honouring his son's wedding.

Larry Page:-

Larry Page Biography (Lawrence E. Page): Google Cofounder
Famous for : Starting the popular Google search engine with Sergey Brin Page details : Born - March 26, 1973 Michigan - USA Lives - America
Larry Page and his business partner Sergey Brin changed the way most people use the Internet. The pair started the Google search engine while working on their Ph.D.s in Computer Science at the Stanford University, USA. They initially had no plans to start a business, but were simply doing research for their Ph.D. Google quickly went from a research project of two Stanford students to being one of the most visited websites on the Internet.
Lawrence E. Page was born on the 26th of March, 1973 in Michigan, USA. Page always had a keen interest in computers while growing up and was encouraged by his father, Dr. Carl Victor Page ; a computer science professor of Michigan State University.
Larry Page graduated from the East Lansing High School and went on to earn a bachelor of science degree in engineering, with a focus on computer engineering at the University of Michigan. It was while studying his Ph.D. at the Stanford University that he met Sergey Brin.
The Beginnings of Google Page and Brin began work on a project called "The Anatomy of a Large-scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine" or simply, The Anatomy of a Search Engine. Their challenge was to crawl the web efficiently and provide more relevant results than the search engines that were available at that time. The dramatic growth of the web presented problems in crawling the web, keeping the crawled information up to date, storing the indices efficiently, and handling many queries quickly. The Google project relied on the PageRank technology that the pair developed.

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Henry Ford :-

Henry Ford Biography : Ford Motor Company Founder
Famous for : Maker of the Model T Ford car, Businessman and American Philanthropist
Ford details : Born - July 30, 1863 United States Died - April 7, 1947
Henry Ford was an inventor, philanthropist and successful American businessman. Ford was the founder of the still popular Ford Motor Company which had its first success with the Model T Ford car that was released in 1908. Henry Ford revolutionized the way cars were designed and built, introducing assembly line factories for producing mass amounts of vehicles that led to lower prices for consumers and an explosion in car ownership throughout the United States.
Henry Ford was born on July 30, 1863 in Dearborn, Michigan, United States, in what was then known as Springwells Township. Ford's parents were Irish immigrants and the family lived on a farm, with Henry Ford being the eldest of six children. The family had a comfortable upbringing on the farm with a decent income, but even as a young person, Ford believed there was too much work and not enough income living from the land.
"It was life on the farm that drove me into devising ways and means to better transportation. I was born on July 30, 1863, on a farm at Dearborn, Michigan, and my earliest recollection is that, considering the results, there was too much work on the place." --Henry Ford
Ford began his career as an apprentice machinist in 1879, then returned to his family farm in 1882 before starting work with the Westinghouse company to service their steam engines. Ford then went to work at the Edison Illuminating Company where he became chief engineer in 1893.
Henry Ford had always enjoyed mechanical things and was always trying to improve or create more useful machinery. In 1893 he created his first gasoline driven buggy or Quadricycle that was completely self propelled. He then started the Detroit Automobile Company with several other investors to improve on his design, but the company went bankrupt soon after. Ford then started the Henry Ford Company, which he also left, before eventually starting the Ford Motor Company in 1903.
The Ford Motor Company released the successful Model T car in 1908. Generally cars were built one at a time and were only accessible to the very wealthy, but Ford continued to improve the way the cars were manufactured. In 1913 the cars were being mass produced by one of the first moving assembly lines. In 1918, half of the total amount of cars in the United States were Model T's, 15 million cars were sold, and production of the Model T was finally stopped in 1927.
Ford also had interests in politics but was never successful as a politician, and unsuccessfully ran for Senate as a Democrat. He also had strong views on labor and how the workforce should be treated. He paid his workers more money for less working days and made the 5 day 40 hour working week a normal part of working life.
Henry Ford created the Ford Foundation in 1936 to promote human welfare through research grants, educational grants and development.
In 1947, at the age 83 Henry Ford died of a cerebral hemorrhage and was buried in the Ford Cemetery in Detroit.

Sam Walton:-

Sam Walton Biography (Samuel Moore Walton) : Wal-Mart founder and American businessman

Famous for : Being the founder of the American discount department stores Wal-Mart and the membership warehouses Sam's Club. The Walton family remains one of the wealthiest families in the world.

Walton details : Born - 29th of March, 1918 Kingfisher, Oklahoma, USA / Died 5th of April, 1992

Sam Walton was the founder of Sam's Club and Wal-Mart, one of the world's largest general retail chain stores. By 2001, Wal-Mart had over 4500 stores worldwide.

Sam Walton was born on March 29, 1918 in Kingfisher, Oklahoma to Thomas Gibson Walton, a farmer, and Nancy Lee Walton. In 1923, Walton's father determined that their farm did not provide enough income on which to raise a family and decided to move the family to Missouri to become a mortgage banker, his previous profession. The Walton family moved from town to town with Walton's father, but young Sam Walton still remained focused on his studies and sports.

While attending the 8th grade, Sam Walton became the youngest Eagle Scout in Missouri history and he excelled at basketball and football during his high school years. Walton's life was not easy, though, and his academics were met with equal challenges at home. Growing up during the Great Depression meant that his family was always looking for ways to save money and Walton's parents required him to tend to matters at home as much as those at school. Part of his daily routine involved milking cows and delivering milk, along with newspapers, to people in the neighborhood.

After graduating high school, Walton pursued a higher education at the Univeristy of Missouri-Columbia in hopes of finding a career that would help support his family. During his time at the university, Walton was an officer with the ROTC unit, worked odd jobs to help feed and support himself, and joined various prestigious fraternities such as Zeta Phi, Beta Theta Pi, and Alpha Kappa Psi. He graduated with a degree in economics and was known as an honorable, scholarly student.

With his degree, Sam Walton joined the management team of JCPenny in Des Moines, Iowa, only three days after graduation. Having served with the ROTC in college, Walton anticipated military service when World War II began in 1942. Walton resigned his position and worked at the DuPont munitions plant awaiting his call to duty. It was in this plant that he met Helen Robson, his future wife. They met in April of 1942 and married in February of 1943. Shortly thereafter, Walton left with the military to serve with the Intelligence Corps where he eventually became a captain.

Walton left the military in 1945 and decided he wanted to open his own department stores. Instead of starting with ones that would compete with his former employer, Walton chose to focus on variety stores. His father-in-law loaned him the initial $20,000 to help him start his first store, a Ben Franklin franchise variety store, in Arkansas.

Sam Walton wanted to focus on providing a wide range of goods at discounted prices to the consumer and keep his stores open longer than his competitors, even during the Christmas season. His lower-priced strategies allowed him to drive up sales and negotiate lower prices on purchases with his wholesalers. A combination of his location and price strategies made him a top seller in the chain in the six-state region of the franchise market.

Higher rent and unfair lease negotiations eventually forced Sam Walton to open his own store in Bentonville, Arkansas called "Walton's Five and Dime" and sell off his inventory and franchise location to the location's owner, instead. In Bentonville, Walton continued to provide low prices and long hours while subsequently participating in community activities such as the Rotary Club and Chamber of Commerce. He continued to open new stores and offered the managers to become involved in the business from an investment perspective. By 1962 Walton and his brother Bud owned a total of sixteen stores in Kansas, Missouri, and Arkansas, most of which still functioned under the brand of Ben Franklin.

Walton is best known for starting the chain "Wal-Mart" which first opened in 1962 in Bentonville, Arkansas. He transferred his philosophies from his Ben Franklin stores to his own brand stores in the process and worked hard to help bring a large variety of products and low prices to his consumers throughout his career. Walton remained dedicated to keeping Wal-Mart involved in local activities by allowing charities to hold bake sales on his property as well as providing scholarships to high school graduates from local schools.

As a result of his accomplishments, Sam Walton eventually received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from George H. W. Bush in 1992. Walton also reached the ranks of the richest man in the U.S. From 1985 until 1988. Walton passed away on April 6, 1992 and left his business to his wife and children who became the primary shareholders of the company.

Ratan Tata:-

Ratan Tata Biography : Tata Group Chairman

Famous for : Being a wealthy billionaire Indian businessman and chairman of the Tata Group, one of the largest conglomerate companies in India.

Tata details : Born - 28th of December, 1937 Mumbai, India / Lives India

Ratan Tata became the Chairman of the Tata Group in 1981 after serving as Chairman in charge of the Nelco division of the group. Tata is India's largest conglomerate and includes the brands Tata Motors, Tata Steel, Tata Power, Indian Hotels, as well as other brands labeled under the Tata name.
Ratan Tata was born on December 28, 1937 in Mumbai, India in one of the richest families in the country. His great grandfather, Jamsedji Tata, was the founder of the Tata group and passed the power and inheritance down to his family. Ratan Tata grew up in a broken household, however, after his parents split in the mid-1940s and he and his brother were raised by their grandmother, Lady Navajbai.
Tata was a good student and studied hard at the Campion School in Mumbai followed by studies in architecture and structural engineering at Cornell University. He graduated with his bachelors degree in 1962 and joined the Tata Group in December of that same year. Tata's first job with the Group involved working with the Tata Steel division where he worked with the blue-collar employees shoveling stone and working with the furnaces.

Although this original job was physically difficult, it helped Ratan Tata gain a better understanding and appreciation for the business and he gradually began taking on more responsibility. In 1971, Tata became Director-in-Charge of the National Radio & Electronics Company Limited (Nelco) in order to help its struggling finances. Ratan Tata helped build a better consumer electronics division but the economic recession and union strikes prevented his vision from taking hold.
Tata was eventually moved to Empress Mills in 1977, a struggling textile mill within the Tata Group. Ratan Tata renewed the vision for the mill but the larger Tata Group was not in agreement with his advice. Instead, the mill was shut down and liquidated in 1986, to Tata's disappointment, and he was moved to the Tata Industries, another holding company.
With Tata Industries, Ratan Tata was able to transform the management and vision of the division and bring in significantly larger dividends. This renewed financial success helped bring the Tata Group to the New York Stock Exchange and gave the company even more international power and prestige. Ratan Tata continued to acquire different industries for the Tata Group, eventually purchasing the steel an aluminum producer, Corus Group as well as Jaguar and Land Rover brands from the Ford Company.

Lakshmi Niwas Mittal:-

Lakshmi Mittal Biography (Lakshmi Narayan Mittal or Lakshmi Niwas Mittal) : Mittal Steel Company

Famous for : The controversial "Garbagegate" scandal in Britain and being the 3rd richest man in the world in 2005. Mittal paid $128 for his Kensington Palace Gardens residence in London (nicknamed the Taj Mittal), which was the most expensive home in the world at the time.

Mittal details : Born - 15th of June, 1950 Rajasthan, India / Lives - United Kingdom

Lakshmi Mittal heads the multi national steel company Mittal Steel that his father Mohan began. Mittal has grown the family business into one of the largest steel companies in the world, with steel making facilities in fourteen countries and employing more than 150,000 people. The Indian born, British based steel magnate was the third richest man in the world in 2005 according to the Forbes business magazine. Lakshmi Mittal saw his estimated wealth increase by $US18.8 billion in 12 months, due to surging steel prices and when he merged his Ispat International with Ohio-based International Steel Group. Mittal reportedly paid $US128 million for a twelve bedroom residence in Kensington Palace Gardens, London.

Hard work certainly goes a long way. These days a lot of people work hard, so you have to make sure you work even harder and really dedicate yourself to what you are doing and setting out to achieve.- Lakshmi Mittal

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Warren Edward Buffett:-

Warren Edward Buffett Biography : Famous American Investor - Stock Market Guru

Famous for : The successful Berkshire Hathaway Company, being one of the richest men in the world, and for being a generous philanthropist.

Buffet details : Born - August 30, 1930 Omaha, Nebraska, USA / Lives - United States of America - Omaha

Warren Buffett was born in Nebraska, Omaha USA on the 30th of August in 1930. He is one of the worlds richest men, with a fortune that is only surpassed by Bill Gates of Microsoft fame. He is considered one of the most successful investors of all time and has picked up the nickname of the "Oracle of Omaha".

Buffett was born to Leila and Howard Buffett and was the second of three children, he being the only boy. Buffett's father, Howard was a stockbroker and also became a member of congress. Warren Buffett showed early signs of being entrepreneurial through being involved in various business dealings as a child, including purchasing bottles of cola cheaply and selling them for a profit. He also made his first investment in the stock market when he was just 11 years old.

Buffett began studying at the Wharton School of Finance at the University of Pennsylvania, but transferred to the University of Nebraska where he graduated. He then went on to the Columbia University to do a Masters in economics. This was where he met the influential value investor Benjamin Graham.

The young investor was very influenced by Benjamin Graham and went to work for him in his company "Graham-Newman". It was here that Warren Buffett developed many of his stock market investing skills that have now become legendary. Graham developed a method where investors could work out the intrinsic value of a company and make intelligent investing decisions by comparing the stock price to the intrinsic value.

Bill Gates Biography :-

Bill Gates Biography (William Henry Gates III):Microsoft Founder

Famous for : Being the richest man in the world, a cofounder of the software company Microsoft, and for being one of the world's most generous philanthropists.

Gates details : Born - USA October 28, 1955 Lives - United States of America

Bill Gates is one of the most influential people in the world. He is cofounder of one of the most recognized brands in the computer industry with nearly every desk top computer using at least one software program from Microsoft. According to the Forbes magazine, Bill Gates is the richest man in the world and has held the number one position for many years.

Gates was born and grew up in Seattle, Washington USA. His father, William H. Gates II was a Seattle attorney and his mother, Mary Maxwell Gates was a school teacher and chairperson of the United Way charity. Gates and his two sisters had a comfortable upbringing, with Gates being able to attend the exclusive secondary "Lakeside School".

Bill Gates started studying at Harvard University in 1973 where he met up with Paul Allen. Gates and Allen worked on a version of the programming language BASIC, that was the basis for the MITS Altair (the first microcomputer available). He did not go on to graduate from Harvard University as he left in his junior year to start what was to become the largest computer software company in the world; Microsoft Corporation.

Richard Branson:-

Richard Branson Biography (Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson) : British Entrepreneur

Famous for : Founding the famous Virgin brand, attracting media attention with his marketing tactics, and for his balloon adventures.

Branson details : Born - July 18, 1950 Britain / Lives - United Kingdom

Richard Branson is a flamboyant British entrepreneur with a seemingly insatiable appetite for starting new businesses. His internationally recognized brand "Virgin" is splashed across everything from credit cards, to airlines and music "megastores". Branson is continuously seeking new business opportunities and loves a good challenge, especially when he enters a market that is dominated by a few major players.

Richard Branson was born on July 18, 1950. His entrepreneurial ways began early when he was publishing a student magazine at just 16 years. Branson did not go on to graduate school but in 1970 the now famous Virgin brand had its beginnings in the form of a discount records mail order venture that he and his friend Nik Powell worked on.

Richard Branson Adventures:-

Branson is passionate about life and living every minute to its fullest. Since 1985 he has been getting his adrenaline rushes through world record breaking attempts by boat and hot air balloon. Several distance and speed records have been attempted and achieved, but his attempt to be the first person to circumnavigate the world in a hot air balloon was never achieved. Branson makes each record attempt a media event with his Virgin logo prominently displayed during every launch, which has been an excellent source of free advertising and brand placement for the Virgin Group.

"Sometimes I do wake up in the mornings and feel like I've just had the most incredible dream. I've just dreamt my life." - Richard Branson

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