| Satyam
founder Ramalingam Raju awarded Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year award
for 2007
21 November 2007
B Ramalinga
Raju, chief of Satyam Computer Services' Ltd., which is also one of
India's top IT companies, was chosen as the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur
of the Year 2007 from an eminent list of over 170 nominees, by a jury presided
over by ICICI Bank managing director and CEO K V Kamath. He
will now represent the country at Ernst & Young's World Entrepreneur of
the Year Award, to be held in Monte Carlo, Monaco in May, 2008. Last year's
winner was Canadian Guy Laliberté, founder and CEO of Cirque
du Soleil, who had been named as World Entrepreneur in Monte Carlo on 2 June
2007. The selection
jury comprised other luminaries of the industry such as Biocon's Kiran Mazumdar
Shaw, Aditya Birla Group's Kumar Mangalam Birla, Omnicom's Keki
Dadiseth, Chrysalis' Ashish Dhawan, and Tata Consultancy Services'
S Ramadorai. The
event was graced by the presence of Vice President M Hamid Ansari, and
Delhi's Chief Minister Sheila Dixit, who were the guests of honour. Nine
other individuals were awarded across different categories, with Mahindra Group
patriarch Keshub Mahindra being honoured with the Lifetime Entrepreneur
of the Year award. This award had been introduced in the United States in
1986, and had its Indian beginning in 1999. Some of the previous recipients from
India include Ratan Tata, Narayana Murthy, Sunil Mittal and Mukesh Ambani. The
complete list of awardees is as under: 1.
Entrepreneur of the Year: B Ramalinga Raju, chairman & founder, Satyam
Computer Services
2. Lifetime Entrepreneur of the Year: Keshub Mahindra,
chairman, Mahindra Group
3. Entrepreneur of the Year - Services: Shiv
Nadar, chairman & chief strategy officer, HCL Enterprises
4. Entrepreneur
of the Year - Healthcare & Life Sciences: Cyrus Poonawalla, CMD, Serum
Institute of India
5. Startup Entrepreneur of the Year: Major Kumar
Upadhyay, founder & managing director, Acme Tele Power
6. Entrepreneur
of the Year - Business Transformation: Raghav Bahl, managing director, Network
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7. Entrepreneur of the Year - Manufacturing: Sajjan Jindal, CMD,
JSW Steel
8. Manager Entrepreneur of the Year: Shikha Sharma, MD &
CEO, ICICI Prudential Life Insurance
9. Entrepreneur of the Year - Social
Entrepreneurship: Ela Ramesh Bhatt, founder & general secretary, SEWA
 10.
Entrepreneur of the Year - Infrastructure & Construction: Atul Punj, CMD,
Punj Lloyd *
The last two categories have been introduced this year.
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