Business leaders from India who inspire

The world needs inspiration, and nowadays, who can be more inspiring than the business leaders running their businesses and have a lot to impart to the young population across the world.

1. Mr. Rajesh Gupta, Founder at Urban Mandi- Fresh Fal Sabzi

Backed by the RSND Group, which already has established a presence in online F&G retail. The stores offer a wide range of farm-fresh produce and grocery at the best prices with great offers. Urban Mandi stores provide next day free home delivery of F&G items. The customer can order things quickly and pay through all available payment modes.

Mr. Rajesh Gupta, Founder of Urban Mandi- Fresh Fal Sabzi, is a law-abiding citizen born and brought up in Delhi. One of India's pioneers of this industry, he launched his independent venture of retail and wholesale of fresh fruits, vegetables, exotics and organic. Mr. Gupta’s success mantra is - Everything in the world was built by people no smarter than you.

2. Mr. Anubhav Maheshwari, Founder at Prudence Consulting

Incorporated in 2010 with a core philosophy of CAS (Customer, Acquisition & Satisfaction), Prudence Consulting helps organizations discover the right solution and ensures the implementation of best practices. Prudence has expertise in Agriculture & Livestock, Retail & E-Commerce and Manufacturing, having implemented 200+ customers across the globe.

Mr. Anubhav Maheshwari, ERP Business Leader, has a rich experience of more than 22 years in the Information Technology Industry. His expertise in IT solutions has been a critical contribution to Prudence Consulting, one of the fortune companies in India. Mr. Maheshwari shares his success mantra “Kept a strong differentiation in survival & inspiration; survival is important to achieve the inspiration. Hence with a focus on inspiration, monitor your survival.”

3. Subho Halder, Co-founder, CISO at Appknox

Subho Halder is the Co-Founder and CISO at Appknox, a leading mobile security testing platform. Subho started his career at TCS, leading the Mobile Security Group inside TCS. In this current role, he assists organizations in detecting and correcting security vulnerabilities. Subho, the CISO of Appknox, became the mastermind behind deploying on-premises security and mobile tackling security applications for Governmental Institutes globally. Subho has aided Appknox in resolving 50,000+ mobile apps and 500+ organizations in identifying and fixing vulnerabilities. Founded in 2014, Appknox is a leading mobile security testing platform headquartered in Singapore and Bangalore. Today, Appknox is one of the most potent plug-and-play security platforms, enabling developers, security researchers, and enterprises to build safe and secure mobile ecosystems using a system plus a human approach.

4. Laksh, Founder and host at DigiJanus

Laksh is the founder, and host, of DigiJanus - a community of leaders, innovators, and trailblazers who are expediting the transformation of the financial industry. He is also helping financial institutions expedite their digital transformation and offer frictionless customer journeys with hyper-personalised experiences.

In his prior experience, Laksh has successfully scaled propositions and businesses, from scratch, in ASEAN and India, for over a decade, with brands such as Thomson Reuters, LexisNexis, ThreatMetrix, Symphony, and his entrepreneurial venture Bulkeffect. One of his most notable works came with Symphony, where he started and scaled Symphony’s award-winning wealth management proposition. In 2021, Laksh was recognised as the Leading Individual by WealthBriefing Asia for his work in the Wealth Management industry.

5. Deepti Sehgal, Founder at Svarasya

Deepti Sehgal is the founder of Svarasya- the ancient skincare and self-care brand with a philosophy that beauty is about physical, mental, emotional & spiritual harmony, which, when in balance, creates irresistible radiance that reflects in the form of bright, attractive eyes, flawless skin and lustrous hair. The brand’s USP is an ancient pure skincare product. Its focus on community creates awareness of how food, lifestyle, movement, emotions, feelings, and energy contributes immensely to our look and feel. The brand's mission is to bring into the limelight the food, yogic, Ayurveda, Traditional Chinese Medicine and Macrobiotic knowledge where the true secrets of beauty lie. Deepti has over a decade of expertise in Macrobiotics, Raw & Living Foods Nutrition, Yoga, Traditional Chinese Medicine and Ayurveda. The knowledge reflects in the brand philosophy-inner work for outer beauty. Deepti spreads her keen voice through her podcast, Youvana the Ageless, which has emerged to impart knowledge and experience on the ideology of ageless living at the body, mind and consciousness level.

6. Ms. Shrutika Arjun, Young Actor & Founder of Haappy Herbs

Shrutika Arjun is a self-made entrepreneur, a young actor, and a gold medallist in BSC and MBA. She was the Cultural Secretary at SRM University 2010 and won lots of accolades in co-curricular activities. Besides this, she has been the professor in Marketing & HR at SRM University, conducted placement training programs in many leading colleges like M.O.P, Vaishnav, and SIET. Running a successful and authentic skin & hair care brand called Haappy Herbs on an e-commerce platform since 2018. Haappy Herbs is a famous Ayurvedic skincare brand that offers products from indigenous raw materials to provide sustainable outcomes. Her passion and dedication to business and receiving overwhelming customer responses with immense rave reviews made the presence of the brand Haappy Herbs globally. Haappy Herbs is emerging as the most popular and loved skincare brands in India, and that too, only with the pure word of mouth. Thousands of organic reviews and testimonies are taking the brand to new heights. Ms. Shrutika Arjun would continue to emphasise product quality, purity and authenticity, ensuring ultimate customer satisfaction. She has acted in four movies and is current a contestant in a Tamil reality show. Married to Arjun, she has one son, Aarav and granddaughter of famous Veteran actor and comedian in Tamil Cinema Mr. Thengai Srinivasan.

7. Priyanka Anand, CEO, Vedic Sadhana Foundation (sadhana.app)

Young and dynamic leader Priyanka Anand is the CEO of VSF, a not-for-profit tech startup based out of India that recently launched the world-class Sadhana App to revive the glory of the Vedic way of life and make it easily accessible on a smartphone, free of cost. A graduate in Medical Science and an MBA in Finance from the University of Technology in Sydney, Priyanka worked as a top business executive for over a decade, leading multimillion-dollar projects across sectors like education, finance, not-for-profit and for the Government of Australia. Like most Gen Y millennial Indian mothers, she realized how cut off she was from her roots as she struggled to impart the wisdom of core Hindu scriptures like the Bhagavad Gita to her daughter. This was a turning point, and soon she quit her corporate career at its peak to pursue a life of service to the community, devoted to the vision of her Guru, revered spiritual leader and bestselling author Om Swami. He has founded the app based on more than three decades of his own Sadhana experience and knowledge of Vedic scriptures and technology. “A perfect blend of cutting-edge modern technology and authentic knowledge from our timeless Vedas, this app holds the power to transform lives for generations to come,” says Priyanka.

8. Neha Gupta, Founder at Sharingourexperiences.com

Neha is a serial entrepreneur, trainer, consultant, strategist, author and speaker. She has successfully trained 6000+ people internationally including start-ups, mompreneurs, professionals, corporates, and students. She is on a mission to digitally empower people, especially women, to earn money by helping them learn skills relevant to today’s world. Neha has founded sharingourexperiences.com, a leading Indian parenting website helping parents with reliable parenting tips and learning tools to simplify parenting, Bloggingmadeeasier.com, an Internationally acclaimed portal for courses, coaching, and an honest digital marketing agency to help brands/businesses/bloggers/influencers to earn money and grow authentically. And also, SOE stores kids an educational start-up assisting multiple preschools and parents in their quest for reliable early learning products that kids love.

9. Anand Dubey, Chief Executive Officer at Indkal Technologies

Anand Dubey is the Chief Executive Officer of Indkal Technologies. This company specializes in technology & innovation and is one of the fastest-growing technology companies in consumer electronics and durables. Indkal Technologies’ mission is to provide innovative prudent, high-quality, and contemporary alternatives to the growing Indian consumer market. Based out of Bengaluru, Indkal excels in delivering high-quality and revolutionary products across a broad spectrum of consumer electronics and home appliances. As a new-age entrepreneur with over 12 years of experience in management and leadership, His extensive knowledge in building effective value supply chains adept at capitalizing on modern distribution and retail channels has helped Indkal put together an advanced infrastructure for product development and manufacturing and customer management in India.

10. Hardi Oza Patel, Founder and Director at Velvet Escapes

Hardi Oza Patel is a writer, traveller, influencer, and entrepreneur who sees the world differently. She is a cosmophile who once dreamed of becoming an astronomer and travelling the stars, moon, and galaxies. And that passion for seeing the world fueled the inner entrepreneur in her, and she started her own Travel Company - Travelscapes. Hardi strongly believes that travel is not simply touching the place- but is all about feeling the place in terms of its culture, cuisines, festivals, language, traditions, architecture, music". She wants to reach as many people as possible and put her 11 years of travel experience into curating the best travel experiences for the people she caters to.