10 Most Admired Indian Entrepreneurs

5. Azim Premji

The man transformed his family’s vegetable oil business into India’s second largest software firm. The company is none other than Wipro and the man is none other than Azim Premji. He is the third wealthiest Indian, and the 41st richest in the world according to Forbes, having a wealth of $12.2 billion in 2012. In 2010 Premji turned 213 million equity shares of Wipro to Azim Premji Trust and pledged to donate $2 billion for improving school education in India. This has been the biggest donation in India.

6. N R Narayana Murthy

Nagavara Ramarao Narayana Murthy is the co-founder and chief adviser of India's best known software firm, Infosys Technologies Ltd. Even after stepping down as the CEO of the company in 2002, Murthy still continues to be among admired business men. He is among the advisory and board members of many reputed universities like Harvard, Stanford, and Yale, is the IT adviser to several Asian countries.

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