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.

Jack Ma
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Jack Ma

Everyone has a passion to attain greater height and traverse the life with a successful career. To achieve such a desire, many strive hard and always move on with an undying spirit of determination. One such perseverant personality is Jack Ma. A not-so-very-talented child, he has become the most influential personalities of China who made a significant impact on the Internet industry of the country. The Founder and Chairman of E-commerce giant Alibaba Group, Mr. Ma Yun, or as he is professionally called, Jack Ma, was born and brought up poor in communist China. As a child, he always wanted t

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Mr. Vineet Jain
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Mr. Vineet Jain

Vineet Jain believes that excellence is a journey, not a destination – and that’s what drives him to do better, and to motivate his colleagues to keep raising the bar. For him work is pleasure, as it doesn’t seem like work! He doesn’t enjoy holidays beyond a week-10 days, and finds the urge to get back to work because it is creative, dynamic and exciting. He considers the creative process very exciting, and has taken several innovative initiatives – over the years, whose impact at the national and international levels is unfathomable – such as setting up Times FM in the 1980s almos

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Dr. Adnan Chilwan
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Dr. Adnan Chilwan

By ensuring focus and progressiveness, whilst preventing himself from being distracted by actions of others, he has been taking charge, making his own rules, and writing his own script for the future Thus, driven by his own ambitions, and not by others’, Dr. Chilwan believes in building capacity for future – financial, people, systems and technology – pre-emptively and continuously, and considers them key ingredients in the recipe for his success. Though success may be a subjective term, and may be a matter of opinion, Dr. Chilwan feels that it is also definitely personal. Whilst many m

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Anil Agarwal
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Anil Agarwal

The story of Anil Agarwal, the Founder and Chairman of Vedanta Resources Plc., is not only of humble origins, but also of a person who has a knack for taking risks, doing experiments and creating a conglomerate that is spread across continents. Having grown up in bylanes of a small Indian town – Patna, he has created Vedanta Group – an Indian diversified natural resources multinational (as he prefers to call it) – from scratch and is present across commodities – zinc, oil and gas, iron ore, copper, aluminium, silver, lead, power, gold. Belonging to the Marwari community of Rajasthan �

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Utsav Khakhkhar
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Utsav Khakhkhar

Leading with Vision Mr. Utsav Khakhkhar is the Chief Executive Officer at Lely’s, a Rajkot (Gujarat) based skincare and personal care brand that offers superior-quality of products at affordable prices. By employing outstanding technology, client servicing, training, and cost engineering, he is driving the venture to success. “UNDER UTSAV’S LEADERSHIP, LELY’S RECEIVED THE HONOUR OF THE MOST PIONEERING BEAUTY BRAND IN 2022” Mr. Utsav Khakhkhar finished his schooling at the Rajkumar College in Rajkot, one of the oldest and best schools in India. He received a bachelor’s deg

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Living Life Meaningfully
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Living Life Meaningfully

Believing that “No one person can define success or happiness for anyone else; one has to find one’s own path,” Tapan Singhel defines success as “to be simple, take life as it comes, and to help people I meet smile more.” DESTINY INSURED He reminisces that he always wanted to be a scientist and was trained to be one. However, a challenge by a friend – that he of course won – got him into insurance. The story goes like this, in his own words: “One of my friends suggested that I take part in an entrance exam to be recruited as a senior officer in a government insurance company. I

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Mr. Niranjan Hiranandani
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Mr. Niranjan Hiranandani

Niranjan Hiranandani is one of the few special real estate entrepreneurs who have actually rewritten India’s real estate story, and has changed Mumbai’s skyline. He is India’s ‘builder extraordinaire’, and has revolutionized the real estate industry in the country. Under his able guidance, the Hiranandani Group has come a long way and is recognized for their modern state-of-the-art mixed- used township projects in Powai & Thane, both of which have become preferred residential and commercial locations in and around Mumbai. A billionaire Indian entrepreneur, Niranjan Hiranandani i

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Virat Kohli
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Virat Kohli

Regarded as one of the most sensational cricketer of the era, Mr. Virat Kohli is coasting high on success, money and fame. At a very young age of 28, Mr. Kohli possesses maturity at the crease far beyond his age and class off the field. Whether through making a century on field or taking some most important wickets for the team, Mr. Kohli is a cricketer who can deliver a comfortable game while keeping his calm most of the time. BEGINNING OF AN ERA Virat’s cricket love goes back to his tender age of 9. It was when his father Prem Kohli decided to enroll him and elder brother Vikas at the Wes

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Syam Panayickal Prabhu
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Syam Panayickal Prabhu

Firm Believer in Values and Fair Practices Born to Government employees, Syam Prabhu holds the traditional values of truth, honesty, and self-discipline very close, and centralizing his professional life around these virtues, he has established Aurion as an expert in international business consulting. Educated at Sainik School, he developed a determination to always win, never ready to settle in a comfort zone, and eager to do what coincided with his passion, through Aurion he has already incorporated more than 1200 free zone companies and 3000 offshore companies, without any hassles to the in

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Ashok Aggarwal
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Ashok Aggarwal

“I have lIved by a sIngle mantra that Is If you cannot do great thIngs, do small thIngs In great ways” Marching Ahead on The Green Road to Prosperity Besides possessing a rich experience of more than 45 years and receiving numerous professional accolades, the Founder-cum-Managing Director of HPM Chemicals & Fertilizers Ltd., Mr. Ashok Aggarwal also has a heart of gold and is ever ready to share his insights with the youth and give back to the society in every possible way the old adage, “Hard work is the key to success” holds true for Mr. Aggarwal who has been trodding

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