Tulip Joshi---- Fresh Face of Bollywood

Tulip Joshi was born on september 11, 1979. She is an Indian model who carries her carreer in the Bollywood industry. Her father is a Gujrathi while her mother is Lebanese-Armenian. Tulip Joshi has two sisters, Selphi and Monalisa. Rajat Bedi, a Bollywood actor married her sister Monalisa. She was brought up in Bombay from where she did her schooling at Jamnabai Narsee school and was graduated in Mithibai College taking up Food science and chemistry.
Tulip is a good sports person and she has competed National Level atheletics too. Tulip got to enter film industry by chance when she attended her friend’s wedding. Fortunately, Aditya chopra, the groom and the son of Yash Chopra, a well known director, noticed her and called her for the auditions. Later, she was introduced by them to bollywood in the film, “Mere Yaar Ki Shaadi Hai”. She was trained to speak hindi at Feroze Khan’s studio, as she was not too good in hindi diction and acting. Tulip Joshi, changed her name to Sanjana, to sound much more like the name of Indian girl, on the advises of the director. The film did well and was a succes too. Hence. She planned to take up acting as her career.
Tulip took up the Femina Miss India Contest in 2000 but, she couldn’t make up to enter the list of winners list. Many advertising agencies approaced her for their ad films after noting her at the contest. She signed them and did many ad films for top brands like Ponds, Pepsi, BPL, etc. Tulip’s parests did not want her to act in films and advertisements but then she continued her carreer, as it gave her a place in the industry. Tulip appeared in a video which was made as a tribute to the famous, “Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan”. For the next two years, she didn’t sign any new assignments as she was suffering from back problems and she had to treat it with shift of spine attached with a disc. When she recovered, she got an offer to act in “Matrubhoomi” and she was greately appreciated for her performance in the film. This film, was a break for her. Then, she signed a telegu film, “Villian” following which she signed for “Dil Maange More” starred with Shahid Kapoor, Ayesha Takia and Soha Ali Khan. This film did not do well at box office.

Chanda Kochhar - achiever

"EVEN though I have worked for one institution for the nineteen years of my career, I feel that I worked for several companies," says Chanda Kochhar, executive director of the ICICI Bank in Mumbai. After graduating from Mumbai’s Bajaj Institute of Management in business management and completing her cost accountancy course, she joined ICICI as a management trainee in 1984."But in the 19 years since then, the ICICI has evolved so much and so many new activities and endeavours have been initiated, that I feel I have worked for several companies," says Chanda.

Firstly, every two years, she was promoted regularly so that her job profile changed, often dramatically. New things happened at ICICI almost every day and Chanda was head of commercial banking, then she was in charge of major client servicing followed by infrastructure investments. And finally, in retail banking. For 14 years, Chanda was a corporate banker. For the last three years she has been a retail banker. "I work in tandem with ICICI Mutual Fund and ICICI Insurance, though they are separate companies. My present job includes building a strong network of branches of the ICICI bank, creating as many ATMs as possible, building a call-centre network, credit cards and other functions of a retail banking system. Today, within a short span, ICICI has become the largest retail finance bank, thanks to the effort of our dedicated teams," says Chanda.

Though Chanda’s phenomenal success in a financial institution is unique, she says that women have made unprecedented forays in the world of finance and banking. To name just a few luminaries, she mentions the names of Tarjani Vakil who is the former chairperson and managing director of the Exim Bank; Lalita Gupte, joint managing director of ICICI; Naina Lal Kidwai of Morgan Stanley; Sonal Dave of HSBC Securities; Shikha Sharma who heads ICICI’s insurance activities and Renuka Ramnath who heads ICICI’s venture finance division. There are many women at the executive director or general manager level in the Reserve Bank of India and State Bank of India.

"This is not surprising," says Chanda, "I believe that women have a great capability to flourish in any job they choose. Earlier, India had a manufacturing economy. The finance and banking sector was comparatively small. The mindset of society was that women could not work on the shop floor in manufacturing industries. But things have changed now. The old mindset is not relevant to finance. Secondly, banking needs a correct and deep understanding of money and the minds of people. It is a multi-faceted business. One has to be in the shoes of a customer to look at money and investment or saving from his/her point of view. Because women themselves are passionate and multi-faceted by nature, they fit this business very well. That is why so many women have done exceedingly well in this sector.

"On the other side of coin," Chanda continues, "Urban or rural educated women are participating in financial-decision making within the family. They are aware partners in a marriage and together with their husbands they decide on the ratio between safe instruments and risk factor investments. They decide the priorities of their families — a house, a car, holidays, children’s education and savings for later years — and apportion money accordingly, in consultation with their husbands. In educated families, men no longer take financial decisions by themselves. Moreover, a huge number of women are in business or jobs themselves. India has the largest number of women entrepreneurs and they are doing exceedingly well. At our bank, we advise them about seeking funding or equity to make their projects cost efficient and quick profit making. We help them to check out the best methods of getting funding for their ventures. The reasons why Indian women can venture into entrepreneurship on such a large scale are:

First, whatever may be the retro features of our society, Indians generally hold courageous women in esteem. When a woman shows fortitude and asserts her point of view, they quite often listen. Secondly, the joint family culture offers a choice for modern women. They can depend upon the infrastructure offered by parents, in-laws or other relatives and friends if they care to build and nurture these relationships. The comfort of a joint family is not available to women anywhere else in the world. Thirdly, there is household help available in Indian cities until now."

Chanda believes that women can deal with any issue of life on the basis of equality and need no special privileges. They can perform whatever task given to them with efficiency and responsibility. "This has been proved in projects undertaken by our rural branches. ICICI has almost 100 rural branches in Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu. In Tamil Nadu, we have helped to set up self-help groups in villages. These 8500 groups, comprising of 20 people each, make up almost 1.5 lakh people, of whom 95 per cent are women. These women are pro-active to change and progress. We encourage them to save, to learn how to deal with money, to pool money to gives loans to each other and impress upon them the absolute need to repay all loans on time. We hope to replicate this project in other states."

Chanda is married to a businessman and has a 14-year-old daughter and a 7-year-old son. "I have not faced major problems in my career because my husband is understanding and co-operative. My in-laws live in the neighbouring building and help whenever I need them. My parents come and take charge of the children when I am away for long periods. We spend a good deal of time with the children and each other. Yes, I have heard the argument that children of women who work as hard as I do can become dysfunctional. Paediatricians and social scientists have expressed this opinion. Children of non-working mothers are dysfunctional too. The answer is a rich and value-based family life, which has to be built by all concerned. Women must learn the value of building relationships within the family and among friends so that children too can have several people to look up to rather than just their parents. "I was fond of dramatics and elocution in my college days. I sometimes play badminton on weekends. But I have no hesitation in saying that I absolutely love my work. It is my passion as well as my relaxation."

Vikram Pandit- Proud of India

Vikram Pandit is the current CEO of Citigroup.
Pandit worked for Morgan Stanley for two decades and was the President and Chief Operating Officer of the Institutional Securities and Investment Banking Group at Morgan Stanley where he was responsible for the overall management of the group and focused on the trading, sales and infrastructure aspects of the business (2000-2005). Before that, he served as the managing director and head of the Worldwide Institutional Equities Division (1994-2000), and as the managing director and head of the US Equity Syndicate (1990-1994) for Morgan Stanley. Pandit left Morgan Stanley with a few colleagues to start a hedge fund Old Lane Partners, which Citigroup bought in 2007 for $800 million.
Pandit serves on the boards of Columbia University, Columbia Business School, the Indian School of Business and The Trinity School. He is a former board member of NASDAQ (2000-2003), the New York City Investment Fund, and the American India Foundation.
On December 11, 2007, Pandit was named the new CEO of Citigroup, replacing interim-CEO Sir Winfried Bischoff. Pandit is the effective successor to Chuck Prince who resigned in November 2007 due to unexpectedly poor 3rd quarter performance, mainly due to CDO and MBS related losses.

[edit] Early Life and Education
Vikram Pandit was born in Nagpur, Maharashtra, India to a moderately affluent Marathi Deshastha Brahmin family. At the age of 16, he moved to the United States to attend college at Columbia University. He received B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering in 1976 and 1977 respectively, and later earned a Ph.D. in Finance in 1986.[2]
50-year-old Pandit is the second Indian to become CEO of a major American financial institution (after Ramani Ayer, CEO of Hartford Financial Services Group). He is a trustee at Columbia University. He was a junior finance professor at Indiana University Bloomington in the mid-1980s before joining Morgan Stanley. As head of Morgan Stanley's institutional-securities division from 1994 to 2000, he pushed the company into more electronic trading and helped build the firm's prime brokerage services that cater to hedge funds. He led the institutional-securities business from 2000 until March 2005.
Pandit and his wife Swati reside at Central Park West and 81st Street. The apartment was purchased from the late actor Tony Randall for $17.85 million in September 2007. The 10-room apartment has 20 windows facing Central Park.

VENU GOPAL DHOOT

Venugopal Dhoot (Born 1944 in Mumbai, India) is an Indian business tycoon. He is an alumni of prestigious Sydenham College, Mumbai. He was born into a wealthy farming family. He is married, and has two children. His personal fortune is estimated as the equivalent of 1.6 Billion United States dollars, making him a billionaire.
His father, the late Nandlal Madhavlal Dhoot, set his sons up in his business, Videocon Electronics. The company's major breakthrough came when it received one of India's first licenses to make color televisions. As of 2006, Venugopal is its chairman, and it now makes a wide range of electric and electronic items. His company recently bought a color picture tube unit from the French company Thompson SA, and a refrigerator business from Swedish company Electrolux. According to Forbes, he is the eighteenth richest man in India. His brother, Rajkumar, is a member of the Indian Parliament.

Anjali Bansal- True Leader

Anjali Bansal
Anjali Bansal manages Spencer Stuart's Mumbai office, which serves multinational and Indian companies on critical leadership and board issues. Based in India, she is a core member of the firm's Financial Services and Technology, Communications & Media practices.
Working in various geographies across the U.S., U.K., India and Southeast Asia, Anjali focuses on world-class leadership development in India. Prior to joining Spencer Stuart, Anjali was a consultant with another global executive search firm. Based in that firm's Mumbai office, she focused on search assignments for clients in the financial services, industrial and technology sectors, and worked with private equity and venture capital firms. She also was a founding member of the firm's nonprofit practice in India.
Before entering the executive search field, Anjali was with McKinsey & Company. Based in New York and Mumbai, she focused on strategy consulting assignments with financial services firms in banking, capital markets, insurance and private equity, and has worked in New York, London and Mumbai. She also led engagements with leading Indian financial services and technology firms on business-building and organizational strategy. She started her career as an engineer with the Indian Space Research Organization in India, and later joined the South Asia program office of Women's World Banking in New York.
Anjali has a strong interest in development, particularly as it relates to poverty and livelihood issues. She serves on the India Board of Women's World Banking, a leading international microfinance network, and consults with the Grameen Foundation USA and Sewa Bank in India. In addition, Anjali is a charter member of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) and is a mentor to the IIT Mumbai-TiE Society for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SINE) incubator.
Anjali received a master's degree, with distinction, in international affairs majoring in international finance and business from Columbia University and a bachelor's degree in computer engineering from Gujarat University in India.