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WHISPERS SPECIAL- LEGACY CARRIED FORWARD!! India’s 12 business tycoons groom children to be future ready The corporate world in India had always at some point of time has seriously thought over succession issues. The interesting fact remains that whether India’s most well known business

By Whispers in the Corridors February 20, 2020 5 min read

WHISPERS SPECIAL- LEGACY CARRIED FORWARD!!

India’s 12 business tycoons groom children to be future ready

The corporate world in India had always at some point of time has seriously thought over succession issues. The interesting fact remains that whether India’s most well known business families have found a suitable successor or not, all are run very professionally both by members of the family who carry the legacy forward and the professionals hired from outside to run the conglomerates. Whispersinthecorridors.com compiled and list of India’s top corporates to find out who is taking their parents’ legacy forward. Here is the list:

1. RIL Chairman Mukesh Ambani

RIL Chairman Mukesh Ambani’s son Akash Ambani works as Chief Strategist for the Reliance Jio Infocomm helped by sister Isha.

Anant Ambani is managing company’s refinery and petrochem business as well as sporting ventures.

2. Reliance ADAG Chairman Anil Ambani

Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (ADAG) Chairman Anil Ambani’s sons Anmol and Anshul Ambani are Non Executive directors on the Board of Reliance Infrastructure Ltd.

3. Tata group Chairman Emeritus Ratan Tata is a bachelor and the company is run by executives from outside Tata family. Tata group Chairman Emeritus Ratan Tata has the company run by executives from outside Tata family along with brother Noel Tata and his son Neville and daughters Leah and Maya .

4. Adani Group Chairman Gautam Adani

Adani Group Chairman Gautam Adani’s son Karan Adani is the CEO of Adani Ports & SEZ Ltd. Jeet Adani, Gautam Adani’s younger son is Vice President , Group Finance at Adani Enterprises. Nephew Pranav Adani is the MD of Adani Wilmar Ltd.

5. Mahindra & Mahindra Group Chairman Anand Mahindra

Mahindra & Mahindra Group Chairman Anand Mahindra Both of Anand Mahindra’s daughters are settled in the United States.

6. Bajaj Group Chairman Rahul Bajaj

Rahul Bajaj’s elder son Rajiv Bajaj manages Bajaj Auto while younger son Sanjiv Bajaj manages Bajaj FinServ.

7. Infosys Co-Founder N R Narayana Murthy

Rohan Narayana Murty is the founder and Chief Technical Officer of a digital transformation company, Soroco, specialised in automation using Artificial intelligence sources. Akshata Murthy launched her own clothing line.

8. Aditya Birla Group Chairman Kumar Mangalam Birla

Kumar Mangalam Birla, the Chairman of Aditya Birla Group’s son, Aryaman Birla plays for the Ranji Trophy team in Madhya Pradesh .Will he become successor of his father for managing the large empire?

9. Vedanta Group Chairman Anil Agarwal

Vedanta Group Chairman Anil Agarwal’s son Agnivesh Agarwal is the Chairman of company’s power subsidiary Talwandi Sabo Power. He is also CMD of Fujairah Gold FZC an arm of Vedanta Group. He is on the Board of atleast 14 other companies. Daughter Priya Agarwal is an Additional and Non Executive Director with Vedanta Ltd.

10. Wipro Group Founder Azim Premji

Rishad Premji is the son of the Wipro Ltd Chairman Azim Premji and was named as the successor of his father and has taken over as Chairman of Wipro in July 2019.

11. HCL Chairman Shiv Nadar

Roshni Nadar Malhotra is ED & CEO of HCL Enterprise. She is Shiv Nadar’s only child.

12. Piramal Group Chairman Ajay Piramal

Radhika Piramal, Daughter of Ajay Piramal, Chairman of Piramal group is the Managing Director of VIP Industries.Anand Piramal is the Executive Director of Piramal group.

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OPINION

Three Prime Ministerial candidates in the country ?

Present Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi is no doubt a perfect Prime Minister as on date. No other leader stands before him given his performance and dedication to the service of nation, but if there is any chance of other than Modi to be the Prime Minister candidate for the 2024-25 elections, three names that have taken the lead in an opinion poll conducted by the whispersinthecorridors.com are Amit Shah, Arvind Kejriwal and Sharad Pawar.

whispersinthecorridors.com has asked it’s surfers –

Who are the three Prime Ministerial candidates in the country ?

Given the present day politics when there seems to be no match to PM Narendra Modi, who are the three Prime Ministerial candidates across all the political parties in the country.

And the three names that as per the choice of surfers came on top were - Amit Shah, Arvind Kejriwal and Sharad Pawar – in that order of priority.

For details – Click on the link below

https://whispersinthecorridors.com/pdf/pm.pdf