INDIAN COMPANIES AND LEADERS

AUTOMOBILES
S.No.	Company	Headquarters	Founded in	Founder	Present Head	Designation
1	Bajaj Auto	Pune	1945	Jamnalal Bajaj	Rahul Bajaj Rajiv Bajaj	Chairman MD
2	Castrol India	Mumbai	1899	Castrol, the global brand, was founded by Charles Wakefield	Naveen Kshatriya	Managing Director
3	Hero Group	Varied locations for different Group companies	1956	Mr. Satyanand Munjal, Mr. Brijmohan Lal Munjal and Mr. O. P. Munjal	Dr. Brij Mohan Lall Munjal	Chairman Group
4	TVS Motors	Chennai	1911	Shri.T V Sundaram Iyengar	Venu Srinivasan	Chairman
5	Bharat Forge	Mumbai	1961	Baba Kalyani	Baba Kalyani	Chairman and CEO
6	Mahindra and Mahindra	Mumbai	1945	J.C. Mahindra & K.C. Mahindra & Ghulam Mohammad	Keshub Mahindra Anand Mahindra	Chairman MD
7	Tata Motors	Mumbai	1945	Jamshedji Tata (JRD)	Ratan Tata	Chairman
8	Maruti Suzuki India Ltd.	Gurgaon	1981	Indian subsidary of Suzuki, Japan	R.C.Bhargava Shinzo Nakanishi	Chairman CEO

IT
S.No.	Company	Headquarters	Founded in	Founder	Present Head	Designation
1	HCL Corp.	Noida	1976	Shiv Nadar and Ajai Chowdhry	Shiv Nadar Roshni Nadar	Chairman CEO
2	Infosys	Bengaluru	1981	N R Narayana Murthy, Nandan Nilekani, N S Raghavan, S Gopalakrishnan, S D Shibulal, K Dinesh and Ashok Arora.	Narayana NR Murthy Kris. Gopalakrishnan	Honorary Chairman CEO and MD
3	Oracle Financial Services Ltd.	Mumbai	1991	Rajesh Hukku	Rajesh Hukku	Chairman
4	Moser Baer	New Delhi	1983	Mr. Deepak Puri	Mr. Deepak Puri	MD
5	Patni Computers	Mumbai	1978	Narendra K. Patni, Gajendra K. Patni and Ashok K. Patni	Narendra K Patni	Chairman and CEO
6	Satyam	Hyderabad	Founded in 1987. Became Mahindra Satyam in June 2009	B Ramalinga Raju and B Rama Raju	C.P.Gurnani	CEO
7	Wipro	Bangalore	1945	Azim Premji	Azim Premji	Chairman
8	Polaris Software Ltd.	Chennai	1993	Arun Jain	Arun Jain	Chairman and CEO
9	NIIT	New Delhi	1981	Ranjendar S. Pawar & Vijay Thadani	R. S. Pawar & Vijay Thadani	Chairman CEO
10	MphasiS	Bengaluru	2000	Merger of U.S. based IT consulting company MphasiS Corporation & the Indian IT services company BFL, Software Ltd.	Andy Mattes Ganesh Ayyar	Chairman CEO & Director
11	Tata Consultancy Services Ltd	Mumbai	1968	Started as a division of the Tata Group	S.Ramadorai	CEO & MD

AIRLINES
S.No.	Company	Headquarters	Founded in	Founder	Present Head	Designation
1	Air India	Mumbai, Maharashtra	1932	Initially started as Tata Airlines, a division of Tata Sons Ltd. by J.R.D. Tata. It was converted into a public limited company in 1946	Aravind Jadhav	Chairman and Managing Director
2	Kingfisher	Bengaluru	2004	Vijay Mallya	Vijay Mallya	Chairman & MD
3	Jet Airways	Mumbai	1993	Naresh Goyal	Naresh Goyal	Chairman
4	IndiGo	New Delhi	2005	Rahul Bhatiya & Rakesh Gangwal	Bruce Ashby	CEO
5	SpiceJet	New Delhi	2005	It was earlier known as Royal Airways, a reincarnation of Modi Luft.	Sanjay Aggarwal	CEO
6	GoAir	Mumbai	2004	Wadia Group	Edgardo Badiali Jehangir Wadia	CEO MD

BANKS/FINANCIAL SERVICES
S.No.	Company	Headquarters	Founded in	Founder	Present Head	Designation
1.	HDFC	Mumbai	1977	Hashmukhbhia Parekh	Mr. D S Parekh	Chairman
2.	ICICI	Mumbai	1955	Started as collaboration between world Bank, Government of India and representatives of Indian Industry		Chairman MD & CEO
3.	IDBI	Mumbai	1964	Estd. by a special act of the Parliament to provide credit to Indian Industry	Yogesh Agarwal	Chairman and MD
4.	SBI	Mumbai	1806	Government of India	O.P.Bhatt	Chairman
5.	PNB	New Delhi	1895	Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia and Lala Harkishen Lal	K.C. Chakrabarty	Chairman and MD
6.	Bank of Baroda	Mumbai	1908	Sir Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad III	M.D. Mallya	Chairman and MD
7.	Bank of India	Mumbai	1906	Founded by a group of Hindus, Muslims, Parsis & Jews lead promoter was Sir Sasson David	T.S. Narayanan Swami	Chairman and MD
8.	Oriental Bank Of Commerce	New Delhi	1943	Rai Bahadur Lala Sohan Lal	A.K.Mishra	Chairman and MD
9.	Canara Bank	Bengaluru	1906	Ammembal Subbarao Pai	A.C. Mahajan	Chairman and MD
10.	Yes Bank	Mumbai	2004	Rana Kapoor	Rana Kapoor	Founder and CEO
11.	HSBC	London, England, U.K.	1865	Thomas Sutherland	Stephen Green Naina Lal Kidwai	Chairman (CEO – HSBC India branches)
12.	LIC of India	Mumbai	1956	Government of India	T.S.Vijayan	Chairman and CEO
13.	MCX	Andheri, Mumbai	2003	Jignesh Shah	Joseph Massey	CEO and MD
14.	Bombay Stock Exchange Ltd.	Mumbai	1875	Government of India	Rajnikant Patel	CEO
15.	Reserve Bank of India	Mumbai	1935	Government of India	Dr. D. Subbarao	Governor
16.	NSE	Mumbai	1992	Government of India	Ravi Narain	MD

PHARMACEUTICALS
S.No.	Company	Headquarters	Founded In	Founder	Present Head	Designation
1	BIOCON	Bangalore, Karnataka and New Jersey USA	1978	Ms. Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw	Ms. Kiran Mazumdar Shaw	Chairman and MD
2	Cipla	Mumbai, Maharashtra	1935	Khwaja Abdul Hamied	Dr. Y.K. Hamied	Chairman and MD
3	Dr. Reddy’s	Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh	1984	Dr. Anji Reddy	Dr. Anji Reddy G V Prasad	Chairman CEO
4	Nicholas Piramal	Mumbai, Maharashtra	1988	Merger of Many Companies	Ajay G Piramal	Chairman
5	Ranbaxy	Gurgaon, Haryana	1937	Bhai Mohan Singh	Malvinder Mohan Singh	MD and CEO
6	Zydus Cadila	Ahmedabad, Gujarat	1952	Ramanbhai Patel & Indravadan Modi	Pankaj R. Patel	Chairman & Managing Director
7	Wockhardt Hospital	Mumbai	1960	Habil Khorakiwala	Habil Khorakiwala	Chairman
8	Novartis International AG.	Basel, Switzerland	1996	Merger of Ciba-Geigy & Sandoz laboratories	Daniel Vasella	Chairman and CEO
9	Morepen Laboratories	New Delhi	1984	K.B. Suri	Sushil Suri	Chairman and MD
10	Aventis Sanofi	Paris, France	2004	Started as Aventis. Later on, Sanofi-Synthelabo purchased Aventis.	Jean-Francois Dehecq	CEO
11	Pfizer India	New York	1849	Subsidary Pfizer	Kewal Handa	MD
12	Bayer India Ltd	Germany	1863	Friedrich Bayer	Vijay Mallya	Chairman
13	Torrent Pharmaceuticals	Ahmedabad	1959	U.N. Mehta	Sudhir Mehta Sameer Mehta	Chairman MD

MEDIA
S.No.	Company	Headquarters	Founded In	Founder	Present Head	Designation
1.	Balaji Telefilms	Mumbai, Maharashtra	1999	Jeetendra Kapoor	Jeetendra Kapoor	Chairman
2.	Mukta Arts	Mumbai, Maharashtra	1972	Subhash Ghai	Subhash Ghai	Chairman and MD
3.	Zee Telefilms	Mumbai, Maharashtra	1992	Subhash Chandra	Subhash Chandra	Chairman & Managing Director
4.	Sun TV	Tamil Nadu	1993	Karunanidhi Family	Kalanithi Maran	Chairman and MD
5.	Sahara India Pariwar	Goregaon, Mumbai, Lucknow	1978	News Corporation	Subrato Roy	Group Chairman

PETROLEUM CORPORATION
S.No.	Company	Headquarters	Founded In	Founder	Present Head	Designation
1	IOC	New Delhi	1959	Government of India	Sarthak Behuria	Chairman
2	ONGC	Dehradun	1956	Govt. of India	R.S.Sharma	Chairman and MD
3	BPCL	Mumbai	1976	Govt. of India	Ashok Shina	Chairman and MD
4	GAIL	New Delhi	1984	Govt. of India	Dr. B.C. Tripathi	Chairman and MD
5	HPCL	Mumbai	1976	Govt. of India	Arun Balakrishanan	Chairman and MD
6	IPCL	Mumbai	1969	Mukesh Ambani	Mukesh Ambani	Chairman

FMCG/CONSUMER DURABLES
S.No.	Company	Headquarters	Founded In	Founder	Present Head	Designation
1	Dabur	Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh	1884	Dr. S K. Burman	Anand. Burman Amit Burman	Chairman Vice-Chairman
2	Godrej	Mumbai, Maharashtra	1897	Ardeshir and Pirojsha Godrej	J.N. Godrej	Chairman
3	Nirma	Ahmedabad, Gujarat	1969	Karsanbhai Patel	Karsanbhai Patel	Chairman and MD
4	Videocon	Aurangabad Maharashtra	1987	Nandlal Madhavlal Dhoot	Venugopal Dhoot	Chairman
5	Hindustan Unilever Ltd. (HUL)	Anand	1933	Subsidary Uniliver	Harish Manwani Nitin Paranjape	Chairman CEO and MD
6	Britannia Industries	Kolkata & Bangalore	1892	---------	Vineeta Bali Nasli Wadia	MD Chairman

GARMENTS/APPARELS
S.No.	Company	Headquarters	Founded In	Founder	Present Head	Designation
1	Arvind Mills	Ahmedabad, Gujrat	1931	Kasturbhai Lalbhai	Mr. Sanjay.S.Lalbhai	Chaiman & MD
2	Bombay Dyeing	Mumbai, Maharashtra	1879	Nowrosjee Wadia	Nusli Wadia	Chairman
3	Future Group (India)	Mumbai, Maharashtra	1987	Kishore Biyani	Kishore Biyani	CEO & MD
4	Raymond	Mumbai, Maharashtra	1925	Lala Juggilal	Gautam Hari Singhania	Chairman and MD

MISCELLANEOUS
S.No.	Company	Headquarters	Founded In	Founder	Present Head	Designation
1	Aditya Birla Group	Mumbai, Maharashtra	1857	The group’s founding father was Ghanshyamdas Birla, under Aditya Vikram Birla, it became a world-calss business base.	Kumar Mangalam Birla	Chairman
2	Apollo Tyres	Perambra, Kerala	1975	Matthew T Maratukallam and Jacob Thomas. Later taken over by Raunaq Singh in 1974	Onkar S. Kanwar	Chairman & MD
3	Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group	Mumbai, Maharashtra	2005	Mr. Anil Ambani	Mr. Anil Ambani	Chairman
4	BILT (Avantha Group)	Gurgaon, Haryana	1945	Founded by Late Karam Chand Thapar as Ballarpur Paper and Straw to Ballarpur Industries Ltd. In 1975	Gautam Thapar	MD
5	Hinduja Group	London, U.K.	1914	Parmanand Deepchand Hinduja	Srichand P Hinduja	Chairman
6	Jaypee Group	New Delhi	1972	Jaiprakash Gaur	Jaiprakash Gaur	Chairman
7	Larsen & Toubro	Mumbai, Maharashtra	1938	Henning Holck-Larsen and Soren Kristian Toubro	A. M. Naik	Chairman, MD & CEO
8.	RPG Group	Mumbai	1820	Ramdutt Goenka	Harsh Vardhan Goenka	Chairman
9.	Reliance Industries	Mumbai, Maharashtra	1966	Dhirubhai Ambani	Mukesh Ambani	Chairman and MD
10.	Tata Group	Mumbai, Maharashtra	1868	Jamshetji Nusserwanji Tata	Ratan Tata	Chairman
11.	Sterlite Industries	Tuticorin, Tamil Nadu	1976	Anil Agarwal	Anil Agarwal Kuldip Kumar Kaura	Chairman MD & CEO
12.	Suzlon Energy	Pune	1995	Tulsi Tanti	Tulsi Tanti	Chairman and CEO
13.	Unitech Ltd.	Gurgaon, Haryana	1971	Ramesh Chandra	Ramesh Chandra	CEO
14.	Tata Steel	Mumbai	1907	JRD -Jamsedji Tata	B. Muthuraman Ratan Tata	CEO Chairman
15.	Delhi Metro	New Delhi	1995	Govt. of India	E.Shreedharan	MD
16.	DLF Limited	Delhi	1946	C.R.Singh	Kushal Pal Singh	Chairman
17.	Coca-Cola India	Mumbai	1993	-------	Atul Singh	CEO & President
18.	Pepsi India	Gurgaon, Haryana	1989	Subsidary Pepsi Inc.	Sanjeev Chadda	CEO

CELLULAR/NETWORK PROVIDER
S.No.	Company	Headquarters	Founded In	Founder	Present Head	Designation
1.	Bharti Tele- Ventures	New Delhi	1995	Mr. Sunil Bharti Mittal	Mr. Sunil Bharti Mittal	Chairman
2.	Essar Group	Mumbai, Maharashtra	1956	Nand Kishore Ruia	Shashi Ruia	Chairman
3.	Reliance Communication	Navi Mumbai	2002	Dhirubhai Ambani	Anil Ambani	Chairman & MD

India’s Advertisement Agency
Name of the Agency	Head
Ogilvy & Mather	Piyush Pandey (Chairman & National Creative Director)
JWT	Colvyn J. Harris
Euro RSCG	Suman Shrivastava
Saatchi & Saatchi	Kamal Basu (CEO)
Leo Burnett	Arvind Sharma (Chairman & CEO)
FCB Ulka	Ambi M.G. Parmeswaran (Executive Director)
R.K. Swamy/BBDO	Shekar Swamy
Mudra Communication Ltd.	Madhukar Kamat (MD & CEO)
David & Bates	Subhash Kamat (CEO)
Rediffusion	Diwan Arun Nanda (MD & CEO)
McCann-Erickson	Prasoon Joshi (National Creative Director)
Contract Advertising	Ravi Deshpande (Chairman & Chief Creative Officer)
Lintas Media Group (LMG)	Lynn de Souza
Grey Group (Asia Pacific)	Nirvik Singh (Chairman & CEO)