Sunday, December 21, 2025
ADVT 
International

4 Indian-Origin People In Fortune's 'Most Influential In Business' List

IANS, 25 Jul, 2018 12:28 PM
    Four persons of Indian-origin, including three women, have been named by Fortune among 40 of the most influential and inspiring young people in business under the age of 40.
     
     
    Instagram Co founder and CEO Kevin Systrom and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, both 34, are tied for first place on the Fortune '40 Under 40' list.
     
     
    Chief Finance Officer of the US' largest automaker, General Motors Dhivya Suryadevara comes in at the 4th spot, followed by Vimeo CEO Anjali Sud (14), Cofounder and Co-CEO of Robinhood Baiju Bhatt (24) and Female Founders Fund founding partner Anu Duggal (32).
     
     
    For the first time ever, Fortune also assembled a "supplementary honour roll" of the most impressive, young superstars who are transforming business at the leading edge of finance and technology.
     
     
    The 'Ledger 40 Under 40' supplementary honour roll  list shines a light on the pioneers building some of the world's fastest-growing businesses.
     
     
    This list includes Senior Vice President of Product at real-time currency exchange and remittance network Ripple, 39-year old Asheesh Birla, digital currency wallet and platform Coinbase's Chief technology officer Balaji Srinivasan, Director of MIT Digital Currency Initiative Neha Narula and Coinbase's Vice President of operations Tina Bhatnagar.
     
     
    Fortune said Ms Suryadevara, 39 made history when it was announced she would become GM's first female CFO later this year, making the auto giant one of only two Fortune 500 companies led by a female CEO and CFO (the other is chocolate giant Hershey).
     
     
    Ms Sud, 34 joined video-sharing website Vimeo as head of marketing in 2014 and was last year named CEO, charged with focusing Vimeo as a cloud-based platform for video creation, distribution, and monetization, targeting individuals and small- to medium-size businesses.
     
     
    Mr Bhatt, 33 cofounded financial services company Robinhood with Vlad Tenev in 2013 as an "egalitarian challenge to oldguard brokerage houses. Five years later, it has shot to a valuation of $5.6 billion." This year the company added Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies to the trading mix and now hope to build Robinhood into a full-blown digital bank, Fortune said.
     
     
    Ms Duggal, 39, launched Female Founders Fund in 2014 as a seed-stage venture fund to invest in female-led technology companies. She had initially raised five million dollars and by May of this year, she closed $27 million for her second early-stage fund, with a roster of limited partners including philanthropist Melinda Gates, Fortune said.

    MORE International ARTICLES

    Prince Charles Appoints Indian-Origin Steel Tycoon Sanjeev Gupta As UK Skills Ambassador

    Prince Charles Appoints Indian-Origin Steel Tycoon Sanjeev Gupta As UK Skills Ambassador
    Indian-origin steel tycoon Sanjeev Gupta has been appointed by Britain's Prince Charles as an official ambassador for the Industrial Cadets programme designed to nurture manufacturing skills.

    Prince Charles Appoints Indian-Origin Steel Tycoon Sanjeev Gupta As UK Skills Ambassador

    US Navy Veteran Adam Purinton Pleads Guilty To Indian Techie Srinivas's Murder

    US Navy Veteran Adam Purinton Pleads Guilty To Indian Techie Srinivas's Murder
    The man who shot Indian software engineer Srinivas Kuchibhotla after shouting, "Get out of my country" has admitted in an US state court to the murder that shocked the nation.

    US Navy Veteran Adam Purinton Pleads Guilty To Indian Techie Srinivas's Murder

    India’s Christians, Sikhs Face Discrimination, Says Scottish Lawmaker

    India’s Christians, Sikhs Face Discrimination, Says Scottish Lawmaker
    Britain will raise the issue of "alleged persecution of Christians and Sikhs in India" with Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in London in April, reported Hindustan Times.

    India’s Christians, Sikhs Face Discrimination, Says Scottish Lawmaker

    Trump Taking The US Backwards: Indian-American Filmmaker Saila Kariat

    Trump Taking The US Backwards: Indian-American Filmmaker Saila Kariat
    Indian-American Saila Kariat, who has made her directing debut with "The Valley", says the US -- where a debate on immigrants has been raging -- is going "backwards" under the leadership of President Donald Trump.

    Trump Taking The US Backwards: Indian-American Filmmaker Saila Kariat

    Pakistani Court Retrains Govt From Arresting Hafiz Saeed

    A Pakistani court on Wednesday ordered both the federal and the Punjab governments not to arrest or place under house arrest JuD chief Hafiz Saeed, the 2008 Mumbai terror attack mastermind, until further orders.

    Pakistani Court Retrains Govt From Arresting Hafiz Saeed

    'FreeKarachi' Campaign Ads Appear On Leading US Newspaper

    'FreeKarachi' Campaign Ads Appear On Leading US Newspaper
    The 'Free Karachi' campaign has launched a new drive to raise global awareness over the plight of ethnic Mohajirs in Pakistan.

    'FreeKarachi' Campaign Ads Appear On Leading US Newspaper