Jury meets today to select the winners
A power-packed jury comprising leading decision makers of India Inc will meet on Thursday to select the winners of Business Standard’s annual awards for Corporate Excellence for 2020. This will be the first time the meeting will be held virtually.
Aditya Birla Group Chairman Kumar
Mangalam Birla is the chairman of the sevenmember jury. The other jury members are JSW Group Chairman Sajjan Jindal, KKR India Chairman Sanjay Nayar, EY India Chairman Rajiv Memani, Mckinsey & Company Senior Partner
Noshir Kaka, Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas Managing Partner Cyril Shroff, and Bain Capital Private Equity Chairman Amit Chandra.
The jury will select the best in Corporate India, from a long list of names and financial data compiled by the Business Standard Research Bureau for the fiscal 2020, to name the “CEO of the Year” as well as achievers in the other categories — public sector undertakings, multinational firms, and small and medium enterprises.
The jury will also choose the “Company of the Year” and “Start-up of the Year”, as well as announce the “Lifetime Achievement” award winners.
The jury consists of the who’s who of India Inc.
Besides running the diversified group, which ranges from cement to finance, Birla is known to be an astute industrialist who has taken the group to greater heights following a combination of organic and inorganic growth strategy. The group is well known for following high standards of corporate governance in India.
Jindal, heading the JSW conglomerate, bet on the future of the Indian steel industry and made JSW Steel the number one player with a capacity of 18 million tonnes per annum, for which he was awarded Business Standard CEO of the Year in 2017.
Noshir Kaka led Mckinsey India as its managing director from 2011 to 2016, and founded the firm’s global outsourcing and offshoring practice and the business technology office in India. He is now the co-lead of Mckinsey’s analytics practice globally.
Memani joined EY in the mid-1980s and rose to become its India chairman and a member of EY’S global executive board and chairman of EY’S global emerging markets committee.
As CEO of KKR India since 2009 and now its India Chairman, Nayar has been involved in several marquee private equity deals in the country. Prior to KKR, he headed Citibank India. Shroff, managing partner of Mumbai-based Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas, has a vantage view of Indian companies as a top lawyer. Chandra founded Bain Capital Private Equity’s India office in 2008 and was managing director, DSP Merrill Lynch, prior to that.