Businesses rise and fall with the times. Numerous qualities make a great business leader, such as being able to encourage others and having a clear vision. Let’s look at 10 successful business leaders.

1. Rajeev Baid, Founder, Chai Chun

India runs on chai, there is no doubt about that, but are we familiar with the wide range of teas that fine estates in India offer? We don’t think so, but that is exactly why Chai Chun started. Starting from hawking teas at the railway stations and bus stops of Kishanganj, a small town on the outskirts of Bihar, Mr. Rajeev Baid is now one of the significant figures in the tea industry. He is now the Managing Director of Chai Chun, India's first and #1 tea boutique, Okayti Tea Estate, one of the finest tea estates of Darjeeling and Evergreen Tea Group that is known for top-quality factories that produce a whopping 15.5 million kg of premium CTC teas every year. He also oversees several other innovative ventures unfailingly related to tea. His unfaltering vision was to give a massive tea-drinking nation like India an experience that is worthwhile and memorable. He was recently also invited to IIM, Kozhikode, to share his captivating story of success, hard work, and resilience.

SuperBottoms, Founded in 2016 by PallaviUtagi, SuperBottoms is an online-first sustainable brand of reusable cloth diapers and baby products focused on awareness and increased adoption of reusable cloth diapers in India besides the daily needs of babies & toddlers. Run by a core team of parents, 90% of whom are mothers, it’s trusted by 20 lakh+ parents. SuperBottoms UNO, its flagship product, is an organic reusable diaper with the ability to stay dry all night. Made with organic cotton, it is very gentle and safe on a baby’s delicate skin. With a one-size-fits-all functionality, it has a patent pending for its innovative buttoning system that enables the same diaper to be used for babies up to 3 years. The brand is a leader in the cloth diaper category in India and a bestseller on marketplaces like Amazon India. Pallavi Utagi, the CEO and Founder of SuperBottoms, is the forerunner in creating cloth diapers as a category in the baby care segment. Her key interests lie in sustainable, zero-waste living and gentle ways of parenting.

3. Samarth Bajaj, Founder, The Designer’s Class an amalgamation of digitalized modern learning and design thinkers

JRD Tata very famously said, “Uncommon thinkers reuse what common thinkers refuse.” This has been Samarth Bajaj’s mantra throughout life. He has always traveled off the beaten path and paved his way. Success for him lies in creating businesses that add genuine value to our society as a whole and not just enhancing one’s position. Samarth has been proactive from a very young age and has held several leadership positions since school.

For a decade, he contemplated a strategy that would add value to designing educational aspirants on a mass scale. In August of 2020, his labor bore fruit called ‘The Designer’s Class’ his most ambitious entrepreneurial initiative. He set out on a mission to make premium education affordable for all. TDC is India’s first online design education platform with numerous prominent designers, like Masaba Gupta, Gauri Khan, Abu Sandeep, and a lot more, teaching holistic design education.

4. Amar Tulsiyan, founder and CEO of Niine Private Ltd

Amar Tulsiyan is the founder and CEO of Niine Private Ltd., a firm he founded with the goal of improving menstrual hygiene in India. A social entrepreneur by profession, he has worked in a variety of industries, like textiles, real estate, and hospitality. Amar started the Niine Movement in 2016 to raise awareness about menstrual hygiene in the country before launching Niine sanitary napkins and baby diapers. He aims to close the gap between menstruating Indian women who use sanitary napkins and those who don't or engage in unsanitary activities, which can lead to health problems.

Incepted on World Menstrual Hygiene Day on 28th May 2018, Niine Private Ltd. started to contribute towards the betterment of female personal hygiene in India. Niine’s hygiene solutions are crafted through rigorous testing and innovations, making Niine’s products extremely skin-friendly and highly absorbent.

5. Peppynite.com - Ending the quest for that perfect wedding event

Estimated to be worth over $30 Billion and growing at 30% annually, it’s the only industry that hasn’t seen a slowdown even in a post-pandemic world. Wedding venues and vendor-related Google search traffic is estimated at a minimum of 25 million per month. With Peppynite.com, Chandigarh-based entrepreneur Gagandeep Singh hopes to change the way weddings are organized. Searching, visiting, and finalizing various components such as banquets, caterers and other service providers for a major life event can get really troublesome and also uneconomical for people, and often a lot is still left to chance. The idea behind Peppynite is that clients shouldn’t have to sweat it out while choosing the perfect venue and the right vendor to arrange milestone events in their lives, be it wedding preparation, corporate meeting arrangements, destination weddings, or looking for happening venues for their happening Saturday night parties.

6. Mr. Ketan Patel, Chairman and Managing Director, Creative Newtech,

Established in 1992, Creative Newtech, formerly Creative Peripherals and Distributions Private Limited, specializes in the distribution of cutting-edge products in the IT, imaging, lifestyle, and retail security industries. The company has a strong presence in the country’s IT distribution sector owing to a broad network of partners and distribution channels. The company has an Omni channel network that spans the online, offline, and retail trade channels. Creative Newtech is dedicated to offering its customers an experiential journey& being an industry leader. The company offers 70+ brands and 3200+ products, has 5000+ happy channel partners, and achieves 10000+ monthly distribution and 50000+ metric tons of monthly import and export. The company provides end-to-end solutions from contract manufacturing to retail distribution and brand licensing and is a house of 150+ employees. Mr. Patel founded Creative Newtech in 1992 with Ms. Purvi Patel, Whole Time Director. With no external funding, he has been predominately responsible for driving operations, establishing partnerships with brands, and developing the finest customer experience organisation.

7. Vikas Gupta, Chairman and Managing Director of Miles Education and Futurense Technologies

Vikas Gupta, Chairman and Managing Director of Miles Education and Futurense Technologies, is recognized as a progressive thought leader in the ed-tech, publishing, and talent transformation industry. In his current role at Miles Education and Futurense Technologies, he defines and evolves strategic directions to ensure that both organizations scale to their full potential. Under his guidance, both companies have remarkably influenced the e-learning and career acceleration spectrum. It has been a wholesome period of three decades of building and scaling education services in India, where Vikas has been the neoteric of many multiple products and business models. He has made monumental contributions as the former President of the Association of Publishers in India (API) and the promoter-member of the Education Promotion Society of India (ESPI). He has been awarded the ‘Business Excellence and Innovative Best Practices Academia Award 2019’ by Dr. Manmohan Singh, the former Prime Minister of India, for Innovative Strategy in Digital Content, Contribution to Entrepreneurship Ecosystem.

8. Mr. Vikas Aggarwal, Founder & MD- Ipower Batteries Pvt Ltd

His journey began with learning about the battery business in his father's company, Computech Systems Pvt Ltd. Later, he saw EV battery manufacturing in India as a golden opportunity and started rigorous research across the world for 2 years, and officially launched Ipower Batteries Pvt Ltd in December 2019. The company's reliance on technology to reach greater milestones has been emphasized along with innovation. The company today supplies its tailor-made batteries to leading OEMs across the country. The company's 80% battery demand comes from 2-wheelers and 20% from 3-wheelers. Despite the pandemic, the company has grown 2x in both its business and revenues.

9. Chander K Baljee, Managing Director, Royal Orchid Hotels & Regenta Hotels

Chairman & Managing Director, Royal Orchid Hotels & Regenta Hotels A founder, entrepreneur, and visionary are what best describes Chander K Baljee, who currently serves as the Chairman and Managing Director of Royal Orchid Hotels Limited. The public company is also listed on the National Stock Exchange (NSE) in India. A veteran with 40+ years of hospitality experience, Mr. Baljee has many achievements and awards to his credit. An MBA from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Ahmedabad, Mr. Baljee has always been passionate about the hospitality industry. His passion has resulted in the rapid setup and expansion of one of India’s foremost chain hotel brands, Royal Orchid & Regenta Hotels. The brand today successfully operates over 4800 rooms and 150+ restaurants in 75+ hotels across 48+ locations in the luxury, upper mid-market, and budget hotel categories in India. Plans are underway to reach 100 hotels by the end of 2023. The brand further enjoys the patronage of more than 2, 65,000 loyal members currently under its Loyalty program across India.

In an entrepreneurial journey spanning nearly 2 ½ decades, Rishi Das, Co-founder & CEO of IndiQube, has, time and again, proven that taking risks, being aggressive and persistently pushing hard toward goals yields results sooner than later. His interest in diverse sectors has led him on a journey of growth through talent acquisition, HR management & commercial real estate. IndiQube, today, is a leading startup providing end-to-end workspace solutions leveraging technology, with over 5.5 Mn SQ.FT.of cumulative office space spread across 75+ properties in 12 cities. Under Rishi’s leadership, IndiQube has been ranked #18 in India’s fastest-growing companies by The Economic Times and is recognized as India’s Growth Champion 2021. IndiQube has also been ranked #104 in Asia-Pacific High-Growth Companies by the Financial Times for 2021. In addition to these, IndiQube has received several noteworthy awards including, The Economic Times “Future Ready Organization 2022-23”, “Startup of the Year” in Entrepreneur Awards 2021, and "Best Co-working Space" at Startup Awards 2021.

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