Mukesh Ambani (born on April 19, 1957 in Aden, Yemen) is an Indian engineer and businessman. He is the chairman, managing director and the largest shareholder of Reliance Industries, India’s largest private sector enterprise and a Fortune 500 company, which he got funded by purchasing large standby letters of credit, which were monetized by several [...]

As the U.S. Small Business Administration’s newest district director for New York City, Pravina Raghavan, 38, needs to hit the ground running. Big Apple entrepreneurs are struggling for capital and customers—and business starts fell 14% in the third quarter from the year-earlier period. As part of the federal stimulus package, the SBA dropped its application [...]

Indra Krishnamurthy Nooyi born October 28, 1955 is the Chairperson and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of PepsiCo, one of the world’s leading food and beverage companies. On August 14, 2006, Nooyi was named the successor to Steven Reinemund as chief executive officer of the company effective October 1, 2006. On February 5, 2007, she was named Chairperson, [...]

Gurbaksh Singh Chahal (born July 17, 1982) is an American entrepreneur, best-selling author, TV personality, motivational speaker, and self made multi-millionaire. By the age of 25, he founded two advertising companies worth $340 million, more recently appeared on several TV shows and published a memoir. G, as he is known, was born in the town [...]

Usha Chaumar, a gregarious 40-something with an enormous grin, can pinpoint the exact day she stopped being one of the “untouchables,” the Hindu caste that was supposedly abolished in 1950. It was 2003, and Ms. Chaumar was on her way to work when Bindeshwar Pathak stopped her. She recalls being amazed that a “nicely dressed” [...]