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Having dedicated his life to extract metals from soil and leaves, Dr. Subhash Kadam knows their chemistry well! Dr. Subhash Kadam, Principal of Dalit Mitra Kadam Guruji Science & Arts College, Mangalwedha, Solapur, Maharashtra, an innocuous person but is known more for conducting and organizing state and national level seminars since 2005 on extraction of noble metals i.e. copper, silver, Gold, Rhodium and platinum. After he obtained doctorate in sciences from Shivaji University, Kolhapur, in 1978, Kadam got doctorate in Kinetics & Mechanism of oxidation of Imides by peroxidysulphate in presence of silver catalyst. After collecting nearly a thousand rock samples from various locales of Mangalwedha, he found that the soil is too rich in copper, gold and platinum. Thereafter

Nikesh Arora occupied top positions at Google joining SoftBank as President and COO. The frenetic pace of investing has earned Arora and SoftBank a special place in the hearts of Indian entrepreneurs. Arora is considered by his colleagues as a team person. A globetrotter, Arora is, however, an Indian at heart. He has Indian food at home, his family speaks in Hindi. Nikesh Arora has a penchant for making news. When he left Google, one of the fastest growing companies in the world, in mid-2014, to join Japan’s SoftBank Corp as Vice Chairman of the group and CEO of SoftBank Internet and Media Inc, it definitely made news. Arora left Google, resigning from the post of Senior Vice President and

SUCCESS STORIES Bobby Jindal was appointed Assistant Secretary for the Department of Health and Human Services under the George W. Bush administration. He is the first Indian-American to be elected Governor in the United States. “We should help developing nations like China and India curb their exponentially increasing consumption of oil and natural gas, which is driving world prices higher.”— Bobby Jindal Born in 1971, Piyush ‘Bobby’ Jindal started out in politics while attending Brown University from where he graduated with honours. He then worked as an intern for Congressman Jim McCrery. In 1991, Jindal went to Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar to study health-care systems. In 1996, he landed his first job in public service, becoming the secretary

SUCCESS STORIES Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella joined the company in 1992 and quickly became known as a leader who could span the breadth of technology and business to transform some of the company’s biggest product offerings. “Nadella is Microsoft’s cloud master and has a firm handle on what it takes to run Bing, Office365, Skype and Xbox Live. He’s liked and respected throughout the industry.” — Ashlee Vance  Indian-American Satya Narayana Nadella, 49, who is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Microsoft, was born in Anantapur in Andhra Pradesh in 1967. His father, Bukkapuram Nadella Yugandher, was a senior Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer, and was with the Prime Minister’s Office while P.V. Narasimha Rao was the Prime Minister.Growing up,

SUCCESS STORIES The India-born Chairperson and CEO of PepsiCo, the second largest food and beverage business chain in the world, has consistently figured among the world’s 100 most powerful women. “One of the world’s biggest public health challenges, a challenge fundamentally linked to our industry: obesity.” Indra Krishnamurthy Nooyi, the India-born American business executive and the current Chairperson and CEO of PepsiCo, the second largest food and beverage business in the world, has consistently figured in the world’s 100 most powerful women. In 2004, she was ranked 13 in the list of Forbes world’s 100 Most Powerful Women. Nooyi was born in Madras in 1955, and was educated in Holy Angels Anglo Indian School. She got her bachelor’s degree from

The child of American concert producer Sue Jones and Indian sitar maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar, Jones has won nine Grammy Awards and was 60th on Billboard’s Artists of the 2000-09 Decade chart. “People keep asking me, ‘Aren’t you nervous that people are gonna read [her own life] into all your lyrics?’ I’m like, no, because I know what’s real and what’s not. It’s mostly fantasy.” —Norah Jones Norah Jones, the child of American concert producer Sue Jones and Indian sitar maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar, who made her illustrious parents proud by striking out on her own, was born Geetali Norah Jones Shankar on March 30, 1979, at Brooklyn, New York. Anoushka Shankar is her half-sister. Her parents separated in 1986,

Mr. Bhavish Aggarwal
CEO & Co-Founder
OLA Cabs

SUCCESS STORIES Anil Kumar Jha is Chairman-cum- Managing Director of Mahanadi Coalfields Limited, a subsidiary of Coal India Limited (CIL) contributing 25 per cent of overall coal production of CIL. Prior to this tenure, he served as director (planning & production) of MOIL, a Schedule ‘A’ CPSU under the Ministry of Steel, Government of India. He did his graduation in mining engineering in the year 1983 and M Tech in 1988 from ISM, Dhanbad with specialisation in Mine Planning and Design. He has a rich work experience spanning 32 years in the field of mine planning, production, management supervision, direction and control of underground and open cast coal mines. He is presently guiding MCL in speeding up the process of

Mr. Acharya Balakrishna
CEO
Patanjali Group