The soft aggressor Venkatachari Jagannathan

Young executives in a hurry to reach the top would happily give their arm to Sam Ghosh, CEO, Bajaj Allianz Life Insurance Company Limited, to learn the art of 'managing' their wives.

"At home it is me who decides," says Ghosh's wife Arunima, alias Anu. Nothing strange about that, as wives are the decision makers in most homes. "But when I mull over a decision, I often realise that it was actually Sam's decision that I took. He certainly has a way of wrapping things around me with words."

Not only that. Ghosh's charming ways instantly endear him to every body and at parties the boyish face makes him the cynosure of the fairer sex. "I hate to be with him at parties," laughs Kamesh Goyal, Ghosh's counterpart at Bajaj Allianz General Insurance Limited.

Behind that charm and suave tongue dwells the active, shrewd brain of a chartered accountant and a mechanical engineer.

Goyal vouches for that too. "As the Indian representative of the German insurer, Allianz AG, Ghosh negotiated the parting of ways with Alpic Finance with ease, while simultaneously tying up with the Bajaj group."

Assuming the mantle at Bajaj Allianz Life early this year, Ghosh has taken the company three notches up up-from seventh to fourth rank in the life insurance segment (See: Allianz Life aims high).