Ajit BalakrishnanAjit Balakrishnan is an Indian entrepreneur, business executive and administrator. He is the founder and current Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Rediff.com, an internet company based in Mumbai. Balakrishnan is also the current Chairman of the Board of Governors of Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. He did his Post Graduation Diploma in Management with Master in Business studies (MBA) from IIM Calcutta in 1971.
Indra Nooyi Indra Krishnamurthy Nooyi is an 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. Nooyi also took the lead in the acquisition of Tropicana in 1998. She did her MBA from Indian Institute of Management Calcutta in 1976.
Amish Tripathi Amish Tripathi is an Indian author, known for his novels The Immortals of Meluha, The Secret of the Nagas, The Oath of the Vayuputras and Scion of Ikshvaku. The first three books collectively comprise the Shiva Trilogy and the fourth is the first of the Ram Chandra Series. The Shiva Trilogy was the fastest selling book series in Indian publishing history and the Scion of Ikshvaku was the fastest selling book of 2015. Forbes India has ranked Amish among the top 100 celebrities in India four times in a row in 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015. Amish was also selected as an Eisenhower Fellow, an exclusive programme for outstanding leaders from around the world. He did his Post Graduation from IIM Calcutta in 1997.
Pranay Chulet Pranay Chulet is an Indian entrepreneur and business executive. He is a co-founder and the CEO of Quikr, India's largestonline and mobile classifieds portal. He holds an MBA from Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. Earlier, he worked in a variety of roles in Walker Digital, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Booz Allen Hamilton.
Sunil DuggalSunil Duggal is an Indian entrepreneur and business executive. He is the current Chief Executive Officer of Dabur, India's largest Ayurvedic medicine manufacturer. Duggal did his MBA from Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. He started his career after his MBA as a management trainee in Wimco, and worked in Bennett, Coleman and Co. and PepsiCo before joining Dabur in 1995. He took over as the CEO of the organization in June 2002.
Gopal Vittal Gopal Vittal is an Indian business executive. He is the chief executive officer (CEO) of Bharti Airtel (India) and (South Asia), an Indian multinational telecommunications services company with operations in 20 countries. Vittal did his MBA from Indian Institute of Management Calcutta in 1990. Earlier, he worked with Hindustan Unilever Limited and Brooke Bond before he was roped in by Bharti Airtel.
Nishi Vasudeva Nishi Vasudeva is an Indian business executive. She is the Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL), an Indian state-owned oil & gas corporation and India's fourth largest company by revenue. She is the first woman ever to head a Navratna PSU. Vasudeva is a 1977 batch MBA graduate of Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. Nishi Vasudeva had started her career in the petroleum industry with Engineers India Ltd.
Sunil Alagh Sunil Alagh is a former Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Britannia Industries. He was asked to quit by the Board of Britannia in June 2003, for alleged misuse of company funds for his personal use. Alagh is an alumnus of Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. He joined Britannia in December 1974 from Jagatjit Industries. He is credited with Britannia's rise to being India's largest biscuit company.
Ramachandra Guha Ramachandra Guha is an Indian historian and writer whose research interests include environmental, social, political and cricket history. He is also a columnist for The Telegraph and Hindustan Times. His newest book is Gandhi Before India (2013), the first part of a planned two-volume biography of M. K. Gandhi. He was appointed to BCCI's panel of administrators by the Supreme Court of India on 30 January 2017. He then enrolled at the IIM Calcutta, where he did a fellowship programme on the social history of forestry in Uttarakhand, focusing on the Chipko movement.
Ashish Kumar Chauhan Ashish kumar Chauhan is an Indian business executive and administrator. He is the current managing director and chief executive officer of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE). He joined Indian Institute of Management Calcutta for an MBA and after graduating from there in 1991, Chauhan joined IDBI Bank.