On Thursday, Forbes revealed its inaugural list of ‘30 Under 30 Asia’,
featuring 30 ‘promising young leaders and game changers’ in ten categories. A
record number of 56 Indians were included among the 300 people in the
categories of ‘Arts’ (Art and Style,
Food and Drink), ‘Manufacturing & Energy’, ‘Entertainment & Sports’,
‘Consumer Technology’, ‘Finance & Venture Capital’, ‘Enterprise Technology’,
‘Media & Marketing’; ‘Health Care & Science’, ‘Social Entrepreneurs’ and ‘Retail & Ecommerce’.
The list included people from India, Indonesia,
China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan, Pakistan, Vietnam and Australia. Tennis
player Sania Mirza, badminton player Saina Nehwal, cricketer Virat Kohli, actor
Shraddha Kapoor led the pack in the ‘Entertainment & Sports’ category . It
also featured Arunima Sinha, the first female and first Indian amputee to climb
Mt Everest; Chaitanya Tamhane, writer and film director and comedian Aditi
Mittal.
The
‘Enterprise Technology’ category features Paras Chopra, founder and CEO of
software company 'Wingify' and Dinesh Goel, founder and CEO of 'AasaanJobs', a
jobs portal that specializes in entry-level work.
The ‘Retail &
E-Commerce’ category features Raghav Verma, co-founder Indian tea chain
‘Chaayos’ with IIT-Mumbai alumnus Nitin Saluja; Mehul Agrawal, co-founder of
automotive e-commerce site ‘Cars24’ and online furniture store ‘FabFurnish’;
Kanika Tekriwal, co-founder and heads ‘JetSetGo’, an India-based private jet
concierge service that links passengers to planes through an online marketplace
and Ritesh Agarwal, founder and CEO of “disruptive hospitality business and
app” ‘OYO Rooms’.
The ‘Arts’
category includes photographer Vicky Roy and Pooja Dhingra, owner and executive
chef of 'Le15 Patisserie'.
The
‘Media & Marketing’ category includes Advait Gupt and Akshat Gupt, co-founders
of 'Supari Studios', which produces content on the internet through live action
and animated films and Sattvik Mishra, CEO of 'ScoopWhoop Media', an online
news service for India.
The ‘Social
Entrepreneurs’ category featured Faith Gonsalves, founder of 'Integrated Development Education
Association'; Smriti Nagpal, founder and CEO of 'Atulyakala', an organization
that commercializes products made by deaf designers such as bags, mugs and
journals.
The ‘Finance
& Venture Capital’ category includes Manju Bhatia, joint Managing Director
of 'Vasuli Recovery', a loan recovery company that employs only female agents
and Anshulika Dubey, co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of 'Wishberry.in',
India’s first crowd-funding platform for creative projects.
The ‘Healthcare
& Science’ category features Arun Chandru, co-founder and managing director
of 'Pandorum Technologies' that designs and makes human tissues for use in
testing drugs and vaccines with limited animal trials and Neha Sinha, co-founder
and CEO of 'Epoch Elder Care', which manages a chain of assisted living
facilities for dementia care in India.
Chinmay
Malaviya, co-founder and vice-president of 'Foodpanda', features in the Manufacturing
& Energy category.
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