People who transformed India as a Viable and Sustainable business model 08-14

Let us remember at least a few disruptively innovative people among them.

Ajay Bhatt :

One of the most unsung technology pioneers is Ajay Bhatt, an Indian-American computer architect who is credited as being the father of the USB standard – something that almost every computing device uses today in some form or another.

In 2009, Intel proclaimed Bhatt as a rock star of tech through a TV advert - despite Bhatt being played by an actor it pushed his profile into the public spotlight. View video

Vinod Dham :

Intel was not short of talented Indians. The father of the famous Intel Pentium processor, Vinod Dham, originally hailed from Pune in India.

Vinod Khosla

In 1982 he co-found Sun Microsystems along with Stanford alumni Scott McNealy and Andy Bechtolsheim, as well as Bill Joy

Sabeer Bhatia

Another pioneering web service, Hotmail, was founded by an Indian technology talent who emigrated to the US in the 1980s.

Bhatia linked up with a colleague, Jack Smith, to launch Hotmail in 1996, which became one of the biggest email providers in the world and was bought by Microsoft in 1998.

Vinod Gupta

Vinod Gupta is the former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Chairman of info GROUP (previously known as info USA.

Mr. Gupta served as CEO of the company from the time of its incorporation in 1972 until September 1997 and from August 1998 to August 2008 Borrowing $100 from a bank to get started, it has grown from a one-man operation to a global employer of over 5,000 with revenues of $750 million. During this period he acquired over 45 companies. InfoGroup was sold in July 2010 for $680 million.

There are other younger generation people who helped to keep the Indian Flag flying high. Some of them are Vic Gundotra creator of Googl plus , Ruchi Sanghavi first lady engineer hired by Facebook, Pamasree Warriar COO of Motorola, and presently COO of CISCO. Navneet Panda the creator of Google Panda which revolutionized the search algorithms and helped remove the  threat of artificial manipulation of  SEO rankings by certain agencies. Indra Krishnamurthy Nooyi is an Indian-born, naturalized American, business executive and the current Chairperson and Chief Executive Officer of PepsiCo, the second largest food and beverage business in the world by net revenue. She has consistently ranked among the World's 100 Most Powerful Women.  In 2014, she was ranked 13 in the list of Forbes World's 100 most powerful women. Vikram Shankar Pandit is an Indian-born American banker He is the former chief executive of Citigroup, a position he held from December 2007 until he resigned October 16, 2012.

He holds a B.S. and M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University, and MBA and Ph.D in Finance from Columbia Business School. Pandit, a naturalized citizen of the United States. Arun Sarin is an Indian-born American executive. Sarin was the former CEO of the telecom giant - Vodafone Group plc, serving from 2003 till 2008. He was the driving force behind the Vodafone's strategic move into emerging markets - especially Asia and Africa; through the purchases such as that of Turkish operator Telsim, and a controlling stake in Hutchison Essar in India. He is currently a senior advisor at the private equity firm KKR. He also serves on the board of directors of Cisco Systems, Charles Schwab and Safeway, Inc.

Sarin, a naturalized American citizen and resident, received an honorary knighthood from the Queen at Buckingham Palace on 10 March 2010.

There are many such unsung heroes like this, space constraints prevent us from mentioning all of them.

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