Top Crorepati CEOs of India

By siliconindia   |   Friday, 03 February 2012, 01:05 IST   |    4 Comments
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2. Kalanithi Maran: Kalanithi Maran is the Chairman and MD of Sun Group, the most profitable TV network in Asia. Maran’s business entities consists of Tv network, Radio channels, newspapers and aviation sector like Sun Network, Sun Direct DTH, Spicejet, Suryan FM, Red FM, Sun Pictures, Dinakaran, Tamil Murasu, and magazines like Kunkumam, Muthaaram, Vannathirai, Kunguma Chimizh.

His annual remuneration is 64.40 crore which makes him the second most highly paid executive. He held the same position in 2010 with an income of 37.08 crore.

He started a Tamil magazine in 1990 called Poomaalai, in 1993, he founded Sun TV. The stats say within 1995 his wealth increased to 10 million dollars which amplified 10 times in the next five years and became 100 million dollars by 2000 and reached to one billion dollars in 2005, which was a huge growth for him and his industry. He has won Young Businessman awards from CNBC, ERNST & Young.