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Picking the Winners

The methodology behind the BT-PwC India’s Best CEOs ranking

Navigator Supreme

An ardent but measured risk-taker, Allcargo’s captain Shashi Kiran Shetty has set his sights on becoming one of the Top 10 integrated cargo logistics players in the world

THE GOSSAMER GIANT

Second-generation businessman S.P. Oswal has built the vertically integrated billion-dollar Vardhman Textiles into the country’s largest yarn spinner

The Power Man

Praveer Sinha has overhauled and charged up the 108-year-old Tata Power to make it future-ready. Here is how the electrical engineer did it

LEADING WITH HEART

Aiming to touch a billion lives, Suneeta Reddy is focussed on investing and expanding Apollo Hospitals' footprint across the group's many verticals

The Green Warrior

A people person, GAIL (India)'s Sandeep Kumar Gupta is committed to ensuring that the country's largest gas distributor plays a leadership role in India's energy transition

Advocate of Unity

CEO Sandeep Kalra aims to turn Persistent Systems into a $2-billion IT services firm in the next four years by bringing people together

TURNING THINGS AROUND

After successfully steering the FMCG major through the Maggi crisis, Narayanan has put Nestlé onto a steady new growth path in the past few years

RED HOT CHAMP

Having grown RHI Magnesita India's share to 30 per cent in the country's refractory market, its leader Parmod Sagar is now focussed on building synergies with the acquired firms

A Solid Player

Chairman Sajjan Bhajanka steered Kolkata-headquartered Century Plyboards into a ₹3,000-crore giant through calculated expansions. Next stop: a ₹5,000-crore top line

The White Knight

Havells India, led by Anil Rai Gupta, is transitioning from a B2B electricals giant to a consumer-centric company by developing Lloyd into a full-range white goods player

THE MAN WITH THE MAGIC FORMULA

Deepak C. Mehta has helped Deepak Nitrite become the fifth-largest listed chemicals player in terms of m-cap from the 24th spot a decade earlier

ADDING UP THE PENNIES

Puneet Dalmia, who is steering growth for Dalmia Bharat primarily through buyouts, says cement is a pennies business that has to be earned every day

Captain Cool

Building on the legacy of some illustrious leaders, Dinesh Kumar Khara has taken State Bank of India, India’s biggest lender, to new heights

GREEN GUARDIAN

Timken India's Sanjay Koul, who puts the planet first, people second and profits third, wants to double the company's revenues in the next five years and make it the most preferred brand in the country

Tough and Sweet

With his deceptively calm demeanour, S. Suresh is transforming sugar and sweetener major EID Parry into a food, fuels and nutrition company

COMPOUND KING

Ande Prathap Reddy has grown Balaji Amines into a ₹2,300-crore speciality chemicals giant and placed India on the global map

SYMPHONY OF SUCCESS

Ashish Bharat Ram has navigated SRF through tough times, never losing faith in its capabilities and employees

THE TRANSFORMER

T.V. NARENDRAN HAS REINVENTED AND RESHAPED THE TATA STEEL HE INHERITED INTO ONE THAT IS A POTENT FORCE NOT JUST FOR MAKING STEEL, BUT ALSO FOR MAKING DEEP MOVES ON FINANCIAL FORTITUDE AND CULTURAL INCLUSIVITY

INDIA'S CHNAGE AGENT

NANDAN NILEKANI HAS HAD A STORIED CAREER IN THE IT INDUSTRY AND THE GOVERNMENT. HE IS NOW BACK AT THE HELM OF INFOSYS, THE COMPANY HE CO-FOUNDED. AND HE HAS MADE A PROFOUND IMPACT IN EVERY ROLE

"WE ARE CREATING NEW BUSINESSES AND TRANSFORMING OLD ONES"

TATA SONS CHAIRMAN N. CHANDRASEKARAN OPENS UP ON THE ROAD MAP FOR THE SALT-TO-SOFTWARE CONGLOMERATE

TATA'S TITAN

N. CHANDRASEKARAN HAS DEFTLY MANOEUVRED THE TATA GROUP'S FORAY INTO NEW BUSINESSES, ADDED MUSCLE TO EXISTING ONES AND LAID THE FOUNDATION FOR SUSTAINED AND HEALTHY GROWTH

What Makes A Good CEO?

Long-serving chief executives shape, guide and mould an organisation; they also know when to pounce and when to hunker down, and create enormous wealth for shareholders

WHAT'S IN ANAME

MANY LEADING CHINESE SMARTPHONE MAKERS IN THE INDIAN MARKET HAVE LAUNCHED SUB-BRANDS OR SECOND BRANDS TO APPEAL TO NEWER DEMOGRAPHICS. WHAT LIES AHEAD?

'We don't have enough planes to fly all domestic passengers'

Jyotiraditya Scindia, Union Minister of Civil Aviation and Steel, reveals why there has been a surfeit of aviation orders from India, the government's plans for the sector, and the road to carbon neutrality

Viewership War

Both JioCinema and Disney Star claim to have won the viewership sweepstakes during the first leg of the cash-rich IPL 2023. But the jury is still out

ON GUARD

India's draft data protection Bill is expected to protect users' choices, while holding stakeholders responsible for their data protection practices

Getting Smart

Titan is aiming to more than double its revenue from watches to 10,000 crore by FY26, on the back of a massive jump in sales of smartwatches

Your Ride in the Sky

No more the stuff of sci-fi blockbusters, flying taxis are set to take off in the next two years to permanently disrupt the global aviation scene

Dire Diagnosis

Dissatisfied with the revision of rates for services provided by private healthcare outlets to CGHS beneficiaries, industry players are asking the government to go the whole hog