Net worth: $5.5billion Vineet Nayar is an Indian business executive, author and philanthropist. He is the former Chief Executive Officer of HCL Technologies which has $19 billion market cap, author of "Employees First, Customers Second: Turning Conventional Management Upside Down (Harvard Business Press, June 2010). which has sold 100,000+ copies. During his tenure as CEO, he managed to grow revenues and market cap by six times which led HCL to win awards for the Most Democratic workplace in the world, Workforce Management Optimas Award for HR Innovation in US, Britain's Top Employers, Best Employer in Asia among others. In addition, he is included amongst Foreign Policy Magazine's Global Thinkers List and Forbes 48 Heroes of Philantrophy in 2016

Education

Sampark Foundation is one of the world's largest primary school transformation initiatives by a Foundation. The foundation tries to change the scene of education in India frugal innovation in the critical domain of teaching practices, tools and methodologies, thus fostering their holistic development, and therefore, enabling them adequately to contribute towards the progress of humankind.