10 Top Performing CEOs of India

By siliconindia   |   Tuesday, 31 January 2012, 02:06 IST   |    5 Comments
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3. Y. C. Deveshwar: Born on 4th February 1947, Yogesh Chander Daveshwar is the Chairman of ITC Limited, a consumer goods and service provider. He was appointed as Director of the Company in 1984 and became the Chairman on 1st January 1996.

He pursued B. Tech in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi in 1968. He also has an AMP Diploma from Harvard Business School, U.S. He led ITC’s sustainability efforts reach new heights which made unique business models. A digital infrastructure of the company, ‘e-Choupal’, is taught as a case study at the Harvard Business School as a initiative to empower Indian farmers. This scheme led the company win the Development Gateway award at Beijing in September 2005 and the Stockholm Challenge Award in May 2011.

Deveshwar has achieved the Global Leadership Award 2010 by the U.S. – Indian Business Council of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce; the SAM/SPG Sustainability Leadership Award 2007; Business Person of the Year award in 2006.