India's Most Powerful CEOs Of 2014

Deepak Parekh: He is the Chairman of HDFC, India’s leading housing Finance Company.

Parekh has had an illustrious career, influencing so many boards and directories of companies like Castrol India, Hindustan Unilever, Siemens, Mahindra & Mahindra, Indian Hotels Company and SingTel, just to name a few.

He was also appointed by the government as an adviser for many schemes and also with regards to RBI’s Securities Market Regulation. Parekh served as an advisor to Sunil Gavaskar for the IPL-7, where Gavaskar was placed as the interim Chairman.

Kumar Mangalam Birla: The chairman of the Aditya Birla Group, Kumar M. Birla took the responsibility of running the company at the age of 28, after his father’s untimely death. He is a MBA from the London Business School. At the start of his career with the company, many people doubted his ability to lead the company but Kumar Birla proved them wrong by expanding the companies reach globally and the turnover to $40 billion from the previous $2 billion.

Aditya Birla Group is the third largest conglomerate corporations in India. Hence all these abilities rightfully place him in the top ten list of the most powerful CEOs in the country.

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