10 Richest Indian Business Magnates

Azim Premji

Wealth 2013: $12 billion

Rank: 4

Azim Premji is the chairman of Wipro Limited. As of 2013, he is 3^rd wealthiest Indian and 41^st richest in the world, according to Forbes. He owns 79 percent of Wipro and currently has an asset of $12 billion. He has been listed twice among the 100 most influential people by Time Magazine. Wipro originally was a hydrogenated oil manufacturing company. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, U.S.

Shiv Nadar

Wealth 2013: $ 8.6 billion

Rank: 5

An Indian Industrialist and philanthropist, Shiv Nadar is the founder and chairman of HCL. Nadar has been awarded Padma Bhushan in 2008. He was born in 1945 in Tamil Nadu and holds a degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore. Under Nadar’s leadership, HCL transformed from an IT hardware company to an IT Enterprise. He began his career at Walchand group’s Cooper Engineering in 1967.

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