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Special Feature
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75 ARCHITECTS OF THE INDIAN CENTURY
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 M. THIAGARAJAN
Young and upbeat
What’s common between Stelios Haji-loannou and M. Thaigarajan? Aviation, of course! But there is a finer glory there if you ponder hard over it – they both started young as the top man in their respective airline companies! While Guinness Book of Records tagged Stelios as the youngest Chairman of a scheduled airline (EasyJet, UK) when he was just twenty-eight, Thaigarajan wins the title of the world’s youngest airline CEO. But there’s one thing about Thiagarajan, his hobby, celestial navigation as many call it showing his vision for India in this century.
“I have seen very little of him personally or over meetings as most of the times he sends someone else to act on behalf of him. But whatever I know of him, he seems to be a quiet and serious personality,” comments Siddhanta Sharma, Chairman & CEO, Spice Jet who shares friendly terms with Paramount Airways as confirmed by C.R. Kannan, AVP, Paramount Airways. Thiagarajan has gifted aggression to his aviation company and within 30 months of its launch, Paramount is reigning supreme in South India by capturing maximum market share and attaining a dominant leadership position (as far as the high-value business carriers are concerned) using just Brazil-made Embraer aircrafts. “He might just be influential in the coming year, you never know,” adds Siddhanta. But remaining confined to just South India is not Thiagarajan’s cup of tea; he wants to spread his wings not only across India but later globally as well. This young man’s big plans comprise expansion through increasing the fleet size by 40 more Embraer aircrafts by 2010. The mantra of Thiagarajan appears to be concentrating on a single region, deluging and then leading before heading towards other areas as stands proven via his plans. He plans to enter western India by May-June this year and the north Indian zone by early 2009. He also has ‘beyond boundaries’ plans to go global (covering Europe, Far East, USA et al) by 2015-16, ensuring that India is a winner this century.
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 RANA KAPOOR
Knowledge driver
I have been extremely fortunate to have known Rana Kapoor, Founder/MD & CEO, YES BANK since the past 19 years. Rana Kapoor has completed 28 years in the banking industry, and he still believes in an important philosophy injected by his late father who believed that “the harder you work, the luckier you get.” Since his very early days in banking, he always nurtured a dream – that of building a world class knowledge-driven private Indian banks catering to a fast emerging India.
Despite several challenges faced in these past years, he successfully conceived the idea of YES BANK, a Bank that would create a strong platform for professional entrepreneurship, set the highest standards for corporate governance, professional integrity and transparency, set higher benchmarks in banking services, and create and share value with all stakeholders. As a professional entrepreneur, he has focussed on establishing a high quality, technology driven, state-of-the-art private Indian Bank catering to “Future Industries of India”, since mid-2003. Under his leadership, YES BANK is steadily evolving as the finest quality bank in India with exemplary business & financial outcome.
Kapoor envisages the bank in the role of a ‘money doctor’ and has a diagnostic approach to banking. He has also spear-headed various knowledge leadership and developmental initiatives in emerging sectors like the Food & Agri-business sector as well.
He envisages India taking centre stage in the 21st century as the Global Knowledge-based economy, driven by fast-paced, growth focused corporates and exemplary entrepreneurship, and therefore believes in a knowledge driven approach focusing on the key growth sectors of the Indian economy.
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