Ernst & Young India - Ernst & Young announces 19 Finalists for the Tenth Entrepreneur of the Year Award 2008

New Delhi, November 10, 2008: Nineteen of India’s acknowledged entrepreneurs, who accept displayed an alarming vision, incessant alacrity and affection to accomplish a difference, accept been called as ‘Finalists’ for the coveted Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Awards. This year, the awards will be appear on November 26th in Mumbai in the attendance of arch all-around and business personalities, including Mr. Somnath Chatterjee, Hon’ble apostle of Lok Sabha, as the Chief Guest.

A six-member board absolute eminent personalities, chaired by Mr. KV Kamath, Managing Director & CEO, ICICI Bank, called the finalists from over 291 nominations accustomed this year, the accomplished back the Awards were launched in 1999, which added proves that with anniversary casual year the accolade continues to calibration new heights.

The finalists for 2008 are listed below (alphabetically):
Anil Agarwal, Vedanta Resources Plc, A.M. Naik, Larsen & Toubro, Arvind Rao, Onmobile Global, Gautam Thapar, Avantha Group, G. Bala Reddy, ICSA India, I. Syam Prasad Reddy, Indu Projects, Jaiprakash Gaur, Jaypee Group, Mavila Vishwanathan Nair, Union Bank Of India, Mehul Choksi, Gitanjali Gems, M. M. Murugappan, Carborundum Universal, P. Namperumalsamy, Aravind Eye Care System, P R S Oberoi, EIH, Ram Chandra Agarwal, Vishal Retail, Rohinton Screwvala, UTV Software Communications, R. S Butola, ONGC Videsh, Sanjay Nayak, Tejas Networks, Sanjeev Bikhchandani, Hitesh Oberoi, Info Edge (India), Shantanu Prakash, Educomp Solutions, Venugopal Nandlal Dhoot, Videocon Industries


“I am acutely appreciative to be associated with Ernst & Young’s action to honour ambitious arete in India. There were several outstanding nominations this year and the finalists were called analytic at assorted ambit such as accumulation appetence with advantage and ambition acclimatization with adaptability. While the finalists appear from assorted sectors, they were affiliated in their admiration to accomplish above the ordinary. Each one of them has fabricated discernable contributions to the abridgement by creating amount and befalling at large.” says Mr. KV Kamath, Managing Director & CEO, ICICI Bank, who chaired the board for the awards.

Other board associates cover Mr. Ravi Venkatesan, Chairman, Microsoft India, Ms. Shobhana Bhartia, Vice Chairperson & Editorial Director, HT Media, Mr. Manish Kejriwal Senior Managing Director Investment - India & Russia, Temasek Holdings Advisors India, Mr. R Seshasayee, Managing Director, Ashok Leyland and Tarun Das, Chief Mentor, CII.

Says Mr. Rajiv Memani, Country Managing Partner, Ernst & Young, “The Entrepreneur Of The Year Program has provided us an befalling to get a actual abutting appearance as aswell apprentice from the ambitious journeys of some of India’s finest business leaders. The characteristic affection of Indian entrepreneurs today is the aplomb and acceleration with which they are affective advanced in the bounded and all-embracing markets. Notably, for abounding of them, their achievements go above active a assisting business to aswell impacting the association at ample and thereby creating added across-the-board advance for India.”

The champ of the Entrepreneur Of The Year Award will represent India at the Ernst & Young World Entrepreneur Of The Year Awards (WEOY) in Monte Carlo, Monaco in May, 2009. Recipients of the Entrepreneur Of The Year accolade become lifetime associates of the World Entrepreneur Of The Year Hall of Fame.

About the Entrepreneur Of The Year Award
Ernst & Young aboriginal advised and produced the Entrepreneur Of The Year Award in the United States in 1986, to honour the backbone and adeptness of those ablaze entrepreneurs, who accept created and abiding acknowledged business ventures. Ernst & Young India launched the Programme in 1999, authoritative it the aboriginal country in the firm’s Asia-Pacific arena to acquaint this initiative.


Past recipients of the EOY awards cover B Ramalinga Raju (Satyam), Tulsi Tanti (Suzlon), Kumar Mangalam Birla (Aditya Birla Group), Sunil Bharti Mittal (Bharti Enterprises), Ratan Naval Tata (Tata Group), N R Narayana Murthy (Infosys), Brijmohan Lall Munjal (Hero Group), Mukesh D Ambani (Reliance), Tulsi Tanti (Suzlon Energy Ltd.), Wayne Huizenga, (Huizenga Holdings), Jeff Bezos (Amazon.com), Michael Dell (Dell Computers), Howard Schultz (Starbucks Coffee), Jerry Yang (Yahoo), Scot Kriens (Juniper Networks) and Tony Tan Caktiong (Jollibee Foods)

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The year 2008 marks the 10th year of this actual different affairs in India, which has acclaimed the actualization of abounding arch entrepreneurs over the endure decade.

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