Forbes magazine is well-known for its lists and rankings including'world's top 100 companies','top 100 richest man in the world' etc.
This time, 23 young entrepreneurs of Indian-origi, under the age of 30, have featured among Forbes magazine's annual list of the world's'Brightest young stars'. The list includes of achievers from different fields such as finance, education, sports, entertainment etc.
and has likes of Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus and Taylor Swift, founder and CEO of the short-form blogging platform Tumblr David Karp, tennis player Maria Sharapova and Pakistani girls' rights activist Malala Yousafzai.
"This is an exhilarating time to be young and ambitious. Never before has youth been such an advantage. These founders and funders, brand builders and do-gooders aren't waiting around for a proper career bump up the establishment ladder. Their ambitions are way bigger and perfectly suited to the dynamic, entrepreneurial, and impatient digital world they grew up in," Forbes said.
Here's a list of some of these Indian Achievers:
FINANCE
Ganesh Betanabhatla, age 28, Designation: Managing Director, Talara Capital.
Rushabh Doshi, age 29, Designation: Trader, DW Investment Management, specialization: high-yield amd distressed debt.
Chaitanya Mehra, age 28, Designation: Portfolio Manager, Och-Ziff Capital Management.
Neil Mehta, age 29, Designation: Founder, Greenoaks Capital.
ECOMMERCE
Sahil Lavingia, age 21, Designation: Founder and CEO, Gumroad.
Karan Chopra, age 29, Designation: Co-founder, GADCO.
EDUCATION
Krishna Ramkumar, age 28, Designation: Co-founder, Avanti.
TECHNOLOGY
Ajaita Shah, age 29, Designation: Founder, Frontier Markets.
Kavita Shukla, age 29, Designation: Inventor of FreshPaper .
Amir Rao, age 29, Designation: Studio director, Supergiant Games and Co-creator, video game Bastion.
Eesha Khare, age 18, winner of 2013 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair's'Young Scientist Award' is the youngest Indian on the list. Invented a portable electronics supercapacitor that can replace conventional batteries for faster charging.
SPORTS
Megha Parekh, age 28, Designation: Vice president, Jacksonville Jaguars(an American Football Team).
SCIENCE
Divya Nag, age 22, Designation: Cofounder, Stem Cell Theranostics and StartX Med.
Raghu Chivukula, age 29, Designation: Resident Physician, Massachusetts General Hospital.
Surbhi Sarna, age 28, Designation: Founder, nVision Medical.
Sam Chaudhary, age 27, Designation: Co-founder, ClassDojo,
Sayamindu Dasgupta, age 29, Designation: Research student, MIT Media Lab worked on Lifelong Kindergarten Research Groups Scratch project
Pranav Yadav, age 28, Designation: CEO, Neuro-Insight.
FOOD
Aditi Malhotra, age 28, Designation: Founder, Tache Artisan Chocolate boutique.
