⭐ Behind the Brand

With more than three decades in India's iron and steel sector, Vinod Kumar Agarwal has helped steer Mahalakshmi Profiles and the MPL Group through growth, strategic expansion and industrial development. In 2026, his journey entered a new chapter when he was unanimously elected Vice President of FTCCI.

With more than two decades of experience across HR, operations, strategy, risk and organizational transformation, Sreenivas Govindu built SG1 Consulting Services around a simple belief: strategy creates value only when people can execute it.

At just 13, Divaa Uthkarsha turned a deeply personal family experience into Project Surya, a youth-led initiative helping children with Type 1 diabetes access care, awareness and support. By 17, her work had taken her from Bengaluru to the Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia list.

Long before India became a global destination for engineering R&D, B. V. R. Mohan Reddy envisioned an Indian company delivering sophisticated engineering services to the world. In 1991, he founded what became Cyient—and helped put “Engineered in India” on the global technology map.

A philosophy graduate who became one of India’s most influential fintech entrepreneurs, Kunal Shah built FreeCharge, founded CRED and, in 2026, stepped into global leadership at Meta as Head of WhatsApp. His career is a study in consumer behaviour, trust and continuous reinvention.

Before Rapido became a major Indian mobility platform, Pavan Guntupalli went through multiple startup failures, investor rejections and career experiments. His journey from IIT Kharagpur and Samsung to building Rapido is a story of persistence, pivots and solving everyday transportation problems.

A business professional by career and storyteller by passion, Ravi Mantri turned late-night Telugu writing into a literary journey that produced bestselling novels, translations and a growing community of readers.