URS-AsiaOne has been steadily showcasing inspiring stories of some leaders who had established global business empires. Some prodigious leaders overcame every difficulty and completely transformed the global dais with their ground-breaking ideas, brilliant operations, and game-changing products and services. Their concerted efforts and incredible focus have helped entire nations write inspiring sagas of business and economic growth. These nonpareil leaders have consistently altered established norms and revolutionized their businesses with their groundbreaking ideas and led their companies to get recognized at many global platforms with various acclaimed brand awards and leader awards such as entrepreneur of the year award.

We present a few of the stimulating stories of the success of such coveted greatest leaders.

Sankey Prasad
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Sankey Prasad

Sankey Prasad, FRICS, founded a project management company in 2003, which went to become the number one project management firm in India. The firm delivered exceptional projects not just across the country but other geographies as well. In 2019, Colliers acquired the firm and merged operations to create a top player in project management and positioned itself as a force to reckon with in the Indian real estate market. Since the merger, Colliers’ combined business is led by Sankey as the Chairman & Managing Director. Sankey leads a team of over 2500 professionals in India spread acros

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Rajiv Kumar Pal
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Rajiv Kumar Pal

Rajiv started his career in the year 1992 as a graduate engineer trainee at Essar Shipping Limited in Mumbai (Maharashtra), India. Since then, he has remained in the shipping and maritime industry, studying, implementing, and pioneering new ways for this centuries-old industry to adapt to modern-day trends. One of the most astonishing characteristics of Rajiv is his zeal to make S’hail Shipping and Maritime Services outshine everyone in the competition. Within four years of its inception in December 2016, the company had grown to become Qatar’s largest owner of Dry Bulk Ships, with ope

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Dipak Chaudhry
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Dipak Chaudhry

Mr. Choudhary has been efficiently spearheading the first wholly-owned overseas facility of PMD Group UK. Under his exemplary leadership, the firm offers a complete range of electroplating and surface treatment processes to the automotive, electronic, printed circuit board and jewellery industries in the country. He has played a significant role in the appointment of distributors in key strategic markets. Owing to his dedicated efforts, the company has received India 5000 Best MSME Award. WORKING HIS WAY TO THE TOP After completing his studies as an aeronautical engineer, Mr. Choudhary

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Dilip Keshu
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Dilip Keshu

John Maxwell said, “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” If this is so, Dilip Keshu is beyond doubt an embodiment of a true leader who has picked many careers, started from scratch and gone all the way to the top. A true renaissance man. An IIT Madras alumnus, Mr. Keshu graduated in Aeronautical Engineering and started his career at an aeronautics firm. He has since then, worked his way up and lived a life of unusual achievements. Mr. Keshu has had an illustrious career even before he came on board at BORN Group as the CEO. He moved to Singapore early in hi

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Dr. Krishan Kishore Mathur
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Dr. Krishan Kishore Mathur

Dr. Mathur truly embodies the spirit of global business leadership combined with a new humanitarian approach. A successful business leader and a recognized corporate trailblazer, he takes pride in his humble background. As he puts it, “I always had big dreams. When I finished school, I decided to follow in the footsteps of my grandfather and uncles and become an engineer. But I saw that only as the beginning – later, I added business and project management to my qualifications to take my career to a different and higher level altogether.” A GLORIOUS BEGINNING Armed with a degree i

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Dr. P Shyama Raju
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Dr. P Shyama Raju

An aspiring boy from a village in Andhra Pradesh to an entrepreneur, philanthropist and an educationist - Dr. P Shyama Raju has carved his name into the city of Bengaluru. From his early days, Dr. Raju has been a seeker of excellence. He dreamt of having a business to his name. After graduating from Andhra University in Commerce, he moved to Bengaluru to find his calling. Instead of settling with a secure income of a routine job, he chose to embark on an entrepreneurial journey. Many challenges awaited him but he rose to the occasion. In 1975, he established DivyaSree Developers. He started h

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Dr. Suresh Menon
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Dr. Suresh Menon

Dr. Suresh Menon hails from the beautiful town of Vengali, Calicut. He belongs to the Meempat Malappuram families. After finishing his graduation in Science from Mumbai University in India, he went on to complete a doctorate in engineering science from Pennsylvania State University. He is the man behind the path breaking agri-tech company Menon Renewable Products. A serial entrepreneur, he has more than 100 patents and trademarks under his belt. WORKING FOR A BETTER WORLD Deeply concerned about the collective welfare of the planet, Dr. Menon asserts that “We have only one planet.” F

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Himanshu Mohapatra
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Himanshu Mohapatra

Armed with a Masters Degree in Commerce and a Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management, Himansu has a rich experience of around 2 decades spanning into Investment Banking, Portfolio Management, Private Equity, Real Estate Development, Strategic Management and Organizational Development. His key fortes are investment evaluation, fund raising, deal structuring and negotiation, strategic tie-ups, setting up new ventures and executing exit strategies. He has worked with a sovereign wealth fund in Oman and other leading financial institutes in India in the past. He was featured among 100

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Graham Bright
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Graham Bright

Graham has a BA (Hons) in Business Studies and is a UK Justice of the Peace (JP) in the Magistrates Court, where he presides over Criminal and Proceeds of Crime trials as well as Crown Court appeals. Over the years, the influential leader has been raising the bar of excellence and innovation in the banking industry. His analytical and strategic mindset and his in-depth industry expertise are his greatest assets. Graham has served in several leadership roles over the last three and a half decades. His role involves consultancy, partner/channel management, and collaborating with industry utilit

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Sonnie Babatunde Ayere
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Sonnie Babatunde Ayere

PAVING THE PATH FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS A trained financial economist, investment banker and entrepreneur, Sonnie Babatunde Ayere has changed the way people looked at investments. A leader par excellence, he is known for having a futuristic vision that has transformed the financial market of Africa for ever Mr. Ayere was born in London to Nigerian Parents, Gideon and Ebunoluwa Alatise Ayere in 1966. He was in London for the first few years of his life and returned to Nigeria in 1970. After finishing his school and college from Lagos, Nigeria he went to Scotland for higher studies. He Com

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