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18 in final round of E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year Award
BS Reporter / New Delhi February 02,
2011, 0:49 IST
Eighteen industrialists have made it to the final round of
the coveted Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award.
An eight-member jury, chaired by M Damodaran, the former
chairman of Sebi, IDBI and UTI, nominated the finalists who
will be felicitated on February 7. The 12th Entrepreneur of
the Year awards is back in the national capital after three
years.
A record 312 nominations were received this year,
underscoring the resilience of Indian entrepreneurs despite
the recent global downturn. The lifetime achievement award
will be conferred on Brijmohan Lall Munjal, chairman & whole
time director, Hero Honda Motors.
The finalists are A M Arun, CMD, Vasan Health Care Pvt Ltd;
Ajay Kaul, CEO, Jubilant Foodworks Ltd; Deep Kalra, founder
and CEO, MakeMyTrip Ltd; Dilip Shanghvi, CMD, Sun
Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd; Mallika Srinivasan, chairman,
Tractors and Farm Equipment Ltd; N K Chaudhary, MD,
Jaipur Rugs Company Pvt Ltd; Naveen Jindal, ex-vice
chairman and MD, Jindal Steel & Power Ltd; R Sridhar, MD,
Shriram Transport Finance Company Ltd; R S Agarwal and R S
Goenka, executive chairman and Director, respectively, Emami
Ltd; Rahul Bhatia, MD, Interglobe Aviation Ltd; Rajesh
Agarwal, MD, Micromax Informatics Ltd; Rajju Devidas Shroff,
CMD, United Phosphorus Ltd; Rajiv Mittal, MD, VA Tech Wabag
Ltd; Rajiv Bajaj, MD, Bajaj Auto Ltd; Sameer Manchanda,
chairman, DEN Networks Ltd; Shyam S Bhartia and Hari S
Bhartia, CMD/Co-chairman & MD, Jubilant Lifesciences Ltd;
Vivek Chaand Sehgal, vice-chairman; Motherson Sumi Systems
Ltd.
While the jury considered various factors, including
entrepreneurial spirit, financial performance, strategic
direction, innovation and personal integrity, it placed
special emphasis on the global impact of nominees, who made
a difference in India’s position in the emerging new global
economic order.
According to Damodaran: “We received an excellent quality
and number of nominations this year. The jury considered
parameters which combined ambition with pragmatism; goal
orientation with adaptability and growth with impact.”
Other jury members were P R S Oberoi (Oberoi Group), Naina
Lal Kidwai (HSBC India), Dalip Pathak (Warburg Pincus),
Sunil K Munjal (Hero Corporate Services), A Vellayan (Murugappa
Group), Rajiv Lall (IDFC), and Sanjay Nayar (KKR India).
“Our list of finalists is both inspiring and exciting,
representing a combination of individuals who have either
created market leadership in their own segments;
successfully transformed businesses in challenging times;
made a mark on the global stage; or opened up new vistas of
opportunities with path-breaking innovations,” says Rajiv
Memani, country managing partner, Ernst & Young India.
The winners join the ranks of legendary business leaders and
award recipients such as N R Narayana Murthy (Infosys),
Ratan Tata (Tata Group), Mukesh Ambani (Reliance), Sunil
Bharti Mittal (Bharti Group), Kumar Mangalam Birla (Aditya
Birla Group), Subhash Chandra (Zee Telefilms), Anil Agarwal
(Vedanta), Tulsi Tanti (Suzlon) and Anand Mahindra (M&M).
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