Indian Stars in Asia

BusinessWeek Online in its new Asia Insider newsletter has listed 25 stars of Asia under 4 categories -

• Agenda Setters (The diplomatic term for politicians)
  
• Managers
  
• Financers
  
• Innovators
  

My guess would have been that there would be no Indian in Agenda Setters, a Manager, a Financer and probably one innovator.

A pleasant shock was that there are 4 Indians in the list of 25.
And here's who:

• Agenda Setter - Mani Shankar Aiyar
  The petroleum minister seems to have won some fan following for his pipeline dreams. Totally unexpected, but his efforts sure deserve accolades
  
• Manager - Naresh Goyal
  Not a very surprising choice, given that Jet and Sahara took off almost at the same time, and Jet comfortably managed to fly past Sahara. The aggressive behavior of Jet (the proposed flight to US) surely is going its way.
  
• Financer - V.Kamath
  Undoubtedly, the 'Big Guy' in Indian banking. he turned around a small credit agency to India's second largest bank in no time with his slew of ATMs which revolutionised our city landscapes. The man behind the structuring of the Reliance breakup. Truly ICICI's honcho deserves to be in the hall of fame
  
• Innovators - Mashelkar
  The Director of CSIR. From a humble upbringing to being at the helm of India's top research facilites, this man has gone places. The industry-research institutes collaboration that he brought about is changing India's R&D landscape.
  

One more Joseph Sigelman, CEO, OfficeTiger in Chennai is also in the list. A US entrepreneur running India's most profit making BPO firm in Asia's list of 25!

Check out the full article in the link above.

Hoping to see more Indians in that list next year.