Aasif Malbari
Managing Director and CEO, Godrej Consumer Products
Handed a company the morning its shares fell 10%, because the man who had just told analysts the plan had walked out.
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Abhay Soi
Chairman and Managing Director, Max Healthcare Institute Limited
“If it didn’t work out I would have thought of flipping it a couple of years later.” That is how Abhay Soi described his first hospital to Forbes India, nine years after he took it on, while admitting that he had known very little about the hospital business when he did. The hospital was BL […]
Albinder Dhindsa
Chief Executive Officer, Eternal
He built Blinkit, was twice asked to leave by the man whose company bought it, and now runs that company. The habit underneath is a willingness to declare his own model wrong and pay to replace it.
Ananya Birla
Founder and Chairperson, Svatantra Microfin Limited
Founded what became India's second largest NBFC-MFI at seventeen, held it through the worst two years the sector has had in a decade, and is selling none of it in its own IPO.
Arun Misra
Chief Executive Officer, Vedanta Limited
Vedanta’s board gave Arun Misra one year to prove that splitting itself into five companies created value rather than paperwork. The business it handed him to prove it with is the one he was already running. On 30 July 2026, the same afternoon Vedanta Limited reported a 72 per cent jump in consolidated net profit […]
Ashiss Kumar Dash
CEO Designate, Infosys Limited
“He’s an uncomplicated guy, focused on what needs to be done.” That was how Nandan Nilekani, the chairman of Infosys, described the man the board had just chosen to run it, at a press conference on 23 July 2026, in a year when nearly everything else said about Indian IT services was complicated. Ashiss Kumar […]
Deepinder Goyal
Vice Chairman and Non-Executive Director, Eternal Limited
He paid ₹4,447 crore for a grocery company the market said would poison him, held it through a 20% drawdown, and then renamed the whole company after it. The bet was his. The execution was somebody else's.
Irina Ghose
Managing Director, India, Anthropic
Anthropic did not hire a researcher for India. It hired Microsoft India's former managing director, and seven months later the thing she has built is a sales channel, not a brand.
Jayshree Ullal
Chair, President and Chief Executive Officer, Arista Networks
She left a safe Cisco seat for a fifty-person startup with no revenue. Eighteen years later, it's worth a quarter of a trillion dollars.
Kunal Shah
Global Head of WhatsApp, Meta
Twice he has taken something Indians treat as a chore and made it feel like a privilege. Now he runs WhatsApp.
Leena Nair
Global Chief Executive Officer, Chanel
Twenty-nine years arguing for Unilever's people. Now she runs Chanel.
Miten Sampat
Interim CEO, CRED
He built other people's companies bigger for a decade. Now he's ruling out mergers and shipping products of his own, two months into running the one he didn't found.
Nandita Sinha
Chief Executive Officer, Instamart, Swiggy
Thirteen years at Flipkart deciding what goes on a shelf, then four years running Myntra, where she built rapid delivery without shrinking the catalogue. Swiggy has hired her to win quick commerce on range, inside 1,171 rooms of about 4,200 square feet each.
Neal Mohan
Chief Executive Officer, YouTube
He built YouTube's biggest product bets as its product chief. Now he's the CEO defending the platform in court.
Nikesh Arora
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Palo Alto Networks
Cleared of the allegations that ended his shot at running SoftBank. He found a bigger seat anyway.
Revathi Advaithi
Chief Executive Officer, Flex
Started on a factory floor in Oklahoma. Now she's splitting a $28 billion manufacturer in two to chase the AI infrastructure boom, on numbers investors haven't seen yet.
Shailesh Jejurikar
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Procter & Gamble
Thirty-seven years at one company, from a first posting in Mumbai to the top job at the world's biggest consumer goods company.
Shashwat Sharma
Managing Director and CEO, Airtel India
He made his name admitting Airtel was not good enough. Eight months into running it, his first big product was renamed rather than withdrawn, and a rival CEO says he cannot feel it.
Sudhir Sitapati
Former MD and CEO, Godrej Consumer Products
Told analysts the plan on Friday. Shareholders reappointed him the same day. He resigned on Monday, and when the news broke the stock fell as much as 10%.
Vibha Padalkar
Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, HDFC Life Insurance Company
A chartered accountant who ran HDFC Life's finance function for a decade, took it public, then spent eight years asking to be judged over four-year cohorts. The regulator has just given her five more years to be judged on.
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