Amazing Facts

Paa – film directed by Balki
Real-life father and son Amitabh and Abhishek Bachchan are all set to enter the Guinness Book of World Records for being the only father-son acting duo to have played reversed roles on screen in Paa.

Also known as the ONGC Nehru Cup .
Total prize money - $100,000
India Won Nehru Cup
India won this cup two times, 2007 & 2009
Organized by the All India Football Federation
Man of the Tournament title - Bhaichung Bhutia, Indian Captain
India defeated Syria by 5-4 (penalty shootout) in the finals on August 31, 2009
Goal-keeper Subroto Paul, who saved three penalties to become India’s saviour, & awarded the man of the match of the final.

Born 19 December 1934
12th and current President of the Republic of India
First woman to hold office
Sworn in as President on 25 July 2007, succeeding Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
Member of the Indian National Congress (INC)
Was deputy chairwoman of the Rajya Sabha (1986-1988)

Born 26 September 1932
14th and current Prime Minister
Chairman of Planning Commission
First Sikh to hold the post
First Indian Prime Minister since Jawaharlal Nehru to return to power after completing a full five-year term.
22 May 2009 sworn as PM at Asoka Hall of Rashtrapati Bhavan
Governor of the RBI (1982 -1985)
Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission (1985-1987)
Finance Minister (1991-1996)

born April 1, 1934
12th and current Vice President
Speaker of Rajya Sabha
Former chairman - National Commission for Minorities (NCM)
Former Vice Chancellor -Aligarh Muslim University
Preceded by Bhairon Singh Shekhawat
Started career as civil servant - Indian Foreign Service in 1961
Awarded Padma Shree in 1984

Born March 31, 1945
5 time Member of Parliament
First woman Speaker of Lok Sabha on 3 June 2009
She is a lawyer & published poet
Earlier Cabinet Minister in the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment (2004-2009)
D/o former Deputy Prime Minister Babu Jagjivan Ram and freedom fighter, Indrani Devi

Konakuppakatil Gopinathan Balakrishnan
Born 12 May 1945
37 th and current Chief Justice
Assumed office Jan. 14, 2007
Preceded by Y. K. Sabharwal
8 June 2000, was appointed a judge of the Supreme Court

Duvvuri Subbarao
Born 11 August 1949
5 September 2008, was appointed 22 nd Governor of RBI
Term ends in September 2011
Post graduate from IIT Kharagpur
1972 batch IAS (Topper) officer of Andhra Pradesh cadre
Received a Ph.D. in Economics from Andhra University
Lead economist in the World Bank from 1994 to 2004
Served PMs’ Economic Advisory Council from 2005 to 2007

General Deepak Kapoor 23 rd and present Chief of Army Staff of the Indian Army Chairman, Chiefs of Staffs Committee(COSC) Air Chief Marshal Pradeep Vasant Naik 19 th and current Chief of the Air Staff of the Indian Air Force Admiral Nirmal Kumar Verma current Chief of the Indian Navy

Leadership Matters - The CEO Survival Manual by Mike Myatt in 2007.
Winning by Jack Welch in2005.
The Martha Rules: 10 Essentials for Achieving Success as You Start, Grow, or Manage a Business by Martha Stewart in 2005.
Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done Larry Bossidy in 2002.
Straight from the Gut by Jack Welch in 2001.
Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy by Bill Gates in 2000.

Direct from Dell: Strategies that Revolutionized an Industry by Michael Dell in 2000.
Father, Son & Co.: My Life at IBM and Beyond by Thomas J. Watson , reprint 2000.
The HP Way : How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company by David Packard in 1996.
Iacocca: An Autobiography by Lee Iacocca , reprint 1986.
Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's by Ray Kroc in 1977, reprint 1990.
Beyond the Last Blue Mountain by J.R.D Tata .

William Henry "Bill" Gates III
Born October 28, 1955
Net Worth: US $ 50 billion (2009)
Chairman of Microsoft (founded with Paul Allen)
Co-Chair of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, established in 2000
Director of Berkshire Hathaway
CEO of Cascade Investment
CEO of Microsoft till Jan., 2000
Book - The Road Ahead (1995)
Book - Business @ the Speed of Thought (1999)

Warren Edward Buffett
Born August 30, 1930
Investor, businessman, philanthropist
Chairman & CEO of Berkshire Hathaway
Obama’s economic advisor
Noted for his adherence to the value investing philosophy, personal frugality despite his immense wealth
Became a millionaire in 1962

Carlos Slim Helú
Born January 28, 1940
Chairman and CEO, Telmex, Telcel and América Móvil
Entrepreneurial Merit Medal of Honor from Mexico's Chamber of Commerce
CEO of the decade by Latin Trade magazine in 2004
engineer, businessman and philanthropist largely focused on the telecommunications industry

Lawrence Joseph "Larry" Ellison
Born August 17, 1944
Co-founder and CEO of Oracle Corporation
3 rd richest American
Owns large stakes in both Salesforce.com and NetSuite
Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems on January 21, 2010
Known for extravagant lifestyle

Ingvar Feodor Kamprad
Born 30 March 1926
Swedish entrepreneur
Richest person in Europe (2009)
Founder of IKEA (home furnishing retail chain)
IKEA founded in Sweden, 1943
Owned by Dutch- foundation controlled by the Kamprad family
IKEA - initials of the founder's name ( I ngvar K amprad), the farm where he grew up ( E lmtaryd), and his home parish ( A gunnaryd, South Sweden)

Sucheta Saha , founder of the Zaria - a new begining of women's life
A. M. Murugappa Chettiar , founder of the Murugappa Group
Anant Koppar , founder, and former president of Kshema Technologies
Bobby Thekkekara , founder of the Local Search Engine { DISCOUNTO.de }
Brijmohan Lall Munjal , founder of The Hero Group , which owns Hero Motors

Dhirubhai Ambani (1933-2002), founder of Reliance Industries
Ghanshyam Das Birla (1894-1983), prominent member of the Birla Group
G. Kuppuswamy Naidu , founder of Lakshmi Mills
Capt. G. R. Gopinath , founder of Air Deccan , vice-chairman of Kingfisher Red
Jamsetji Tata (1839-1904), founder of the Tata Group of companies

J. C. Mahindra , co-founder of the Mahindra Group
K. C. Mahindra , co-founder of the Mahindra Group
Karsanbhai Patel , founder of the Nirma Group
Kasturbhai Lalbhai (1894-1980), textile baron, founder of Arvind Mills
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw , founder of Biocon , first biotechnology company in India
Rahul Bajaj , chairman and MD of Bajaj Auto

Kishor Patil , co-founder, MD & CEO of KPIT Cummins Infosystems Ltd.
Ravi Pandit, co-founder, chairman and group CEO of KPIT Cummins Infosystems Ltd.
N. R. Narayana Murthy , co-founder of Infosys Technologies
Raj Anand , founder of the Kwiqq
Ramji Raghavan , Social Entrepreneur, founder of Agastya International Foundation

Sabeer Bhatia , co-founder of Hotmail
Shruti Kohli , founder/editor of MoneyQuin (online finance magazine focused on women)
Subhash Chandra , chairman of the Essel Group , launched Zee TV, the first Hindi satellite television channel
Purnima Varadrajan , founder and CEO of iPOTT Group of companies Google for general search iPOTT for software search.

Suhas Gopinath , founder of Globals Inc., an IT company, at age of 14
Sunil Mittal , chairman and managing director of Bharti Enterprises
Venkat Rangan , founder of Yodlee.com and Vice Chancellor of Amrita University
T. V. Sundaram Iyengar (1877-1955), founder of the TVS Group
Vishal Gondal , founder of Indiagames
Kishore Biyani , MD of Pantaloon Retail

Vijay Mallya , chairman of the United Breweries Group and Kingfisher Airlines , member of the upper house of the Indian Parliament, and owner of several sports franchises and teams ( Banglore Royal Challengers )
Ujwal Makhija , founder and CEO of Phonon , an Indian pioneer in hosted telephony services such as click-to-call
Shiv Nadar , founder of HCL , an IT company

Aditya Birla Group - Kumar Birla
Adobe Systems - Shantanu Narayen
Amazon.com - Jeff Bezos
AMD - Dirk Meyer
American Express - Kenneth Chenault
Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group - Anil Ambani
Apple Inc. - Steve Jobs
Arcelor Mittal - Lakshmi Niwas Mittal
AT&T - Randall L. Stephenson

Bank of America - Brian Moynihan
Barclays - John Silvester Varley
Bharti Telecom - Sunil Bharti Mittal
BMW - Norbert Reithofer
Boeing - W. James McNerney, Jr.
British Airways - Willie Walsh
Berkshire Hathaway – Warren Buffett

Caterpillar Inc. - James W. Owens
Chrysler - Sergio Marchionne
Cisco Systems - John Chambers
Citigroup - Vikram Pandit
Coca-Cola - Muhtar Kent
Cameron - Sheldon Erikson
Lehman Brothers - Richard S. Fuld, Jr.
Larsen & Toubro Limited - A M Naik
Lufthansa - Wolfgang Mayrhuber

Dell Inc - Michael Dell
Deutsche Bank - Josef Ackermann
Digg - Jay Adelson
DLF Universal - Kushal Pal Singh
Domino's Pizza - David Brandon
eBay - John Donahoe
Facebook - Mark Zuckerberg
FedEx - Frederick W. Smith
Ford Motor Company - Alan Mulally

General Electric - Jeffrey R. Immelt
General Motors - Edward Whitacre, Jr.
GlaxoSmithKline - Andrew Witty
Goldman Sachs - Lloyd Blankfein
Google - Eric E. Schmidt
IBM - Samuel J. Palmisano
Infosys Tech. Ltd. - Kris Gopalakrishnan
Intel - Paul Otellini
ITC Limited - Y C Deveshwar

Harley Davidson - James Ziemer
HCL Technologies – Roshni Nadar
Hewlett-Packard - Mark V. Hurd
Hindalco - Kumar Mangalam Birla
Honda Motor Co. Ltd - Takeo Fukui
HSBC - Michael Geoghegan
JP Morgan Chase - James Dimon
Kaplan Inc. - Andrew Rosen
ICICI Bank – Chanda Kochhar

Marks and Spencer - Stuart Rose
McDonalds - Jack Greenberg
Mercedes-Benz - Dieter Zetsche
Merrill Lynch - John Thain
MetLife - C. Robert Henrikson
Microsoft - Steven Anthony Ballmer
Morgan Stanley - John J. Mack
Motorola - Greg Brown
Mozilla - Mitchell Baker
MySpace - Chris DeWolfe

NIIT - Vijay K. Thadani
Nike - Mark Parker
Nissan - Carlos Ghosn
Nokia - Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo
Novartis - Daniel Vasella
Nintendo - Satoru Iwata
Oracle Corporation - Larry Ellison
Qantas Airways Limited - Alan Joyce
Reliance Ind. Ltd. - Mukesh Ambani
Renault - Carlos Ghosn

Patni Computer Systems - Narendra Patni
PepsiCo - Indra Nooyi
Pfizer - Henry McKinnell
Pixar - Steve Jobs
Playboy Enterprises - Christie Hefner
Polo Ralph Lauren - Ralph Lauren
Procter & Gamble - Alan Lafley
Future Group – Kishore Biyani

Samsung - Kun-Hee Lee
SAP AG - Henning Kagermann
Seagate Technology - Steve Luczo
Sony - Howard Stringer
Starbucks Coffee Company - Howard Schultz
Sun Microsystems - Jonathan I. Schwartz
Sulekha - Satya Prabhakar
Syntel Inc. - Bharat Desai
Standard Chartered – Neeraj Swaroop

TCS - N Chandrasekaran
Tata Steel - B Muthuraman
Thomson Reuters - Tom Glocer
Time Warner - Jeffrey L. Bewkes
Toyota - Hiroshi Okuda
Twitter - Jack Dorsey
UBS AG - Oswald Grübel
Vodafone - Vittorio Colao
Volkswagen - Martin Winterkorn
Virgin Group – Richard Branson (Chairman)

The Walt Disney Company - Robert Iger
Wal-Mart - Mike Duke
Warner Bros. - Barry Meyer
Wipro Technologies – Girish Paranjpe & Suresh Vaswani Azim Premji (Chairman)
WWE - Vince McMahon
Yahoo! - Carol Bartz
YouTube, LLC - Chad Hurley

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