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By The American Bazaar Staff
WASHINGTON, DC: Indian Americans and South Asian origin Americans figure prominently in the annual Forbes 30 Under 30 list, which encompasses a total of 15 categories, and is regarded as a milestone in the career of talented professionals, who are on the super fast-track to success, and global recognition.
Indian Americans figure in 11 of those 15 lists, with dominating presence in the fields of finance – where five Indian Americans made the cut. A total of six desis made the list in the Science & Healthcare and Social Entrepreneurs categories, respectively.
Scroll down for the full list of the Forbes 30 Under 30 India list, which includes among others, India bowler and World Cup squad member Bhuvneshwar Kumar.
FORBES 30 UNDER 30 2015 LIST:
Finance
Ganesh Betanabhatla, 28, Managing director, Talara Capital – Former JPMorgan oil & gas investment banker and vice president at Pine Brook Partners.
Rushabh Doshi, 29, Trader, DW Investment Management – Former Morgan Stanley and Brevan Howard trader.
Chaitanya Mehra, 28, Portfolio manager, Och-Ziff Capital Management – Former Goldman Sachs trader.
Neil Mehta, 29, Founder, Greenoaks Capital – Founded Greenoaks and now manages some $600 million.
Vivek Ramaswamy, 28, Investment analyst, QVT Financial – Co-managing one of the hedge fund industry’s largest biotech-focused portfolios for Daniel Gold’s hedge fund.
TECHNOLOGY
Sahil Lavingia, 21, Founder, Gumroad – A former designer at Pinterest, Lavingia is the founder and CEO of Gumroad.
SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS
Shiza Shahid, 24, Cofounder, Malala Fund.
Karan Chopra, 29, Cofounder, GADCO – Karan Chopra grew up in Ghana and is now helping the nation’s poorest farmers reap higher profits.
Krishna Ramkumar, 28, Cofounder, Avanti – Krishna Ramkumar founded Avanti, a group of learning centers in Mumbai, Delhi, Kanpur and Chennai that provides 750 bright, low-income high school students with science and math education.
Ajaita Shah, 29, Founder, Frontier Markets – Ajaita Shah’s India-based Frontier Markets brings clean energy to families at the base of the pyramid.
Kavita Shukla, 29, Founder, Fenugreen – Kavita Shukla invented and patented FreshPaper—a low-cost, compostable paper infused with edible organic spices that keeps produce fresh two to four times longer.
Malala Yousafzai, 16, Cofounder, Malala Fund.
SPORTS
Muthu Alagappan, 23, Consultant, Ayasdi – Developed a set of advanced statistical basketball metrics – he groups players by statistical strengths to surmise that a team effectively breaks down to 13 positions rather than five.
Megha Parekh, 28, Vice president, Jacksonville Jaguars – Harvard Law School graduate and former Proskauer associate.
GAMES
Amir Rao, 29, Studio director, Supergiant Games – Co-founder of Supergiant Games and co-creator of the action role-playing video game Bastion.
SCIENCE & HEALTHCARE
Divya Nag, 22, Cofounder, Stem Cell Theranostics and StartX Med – Divya Nag is attacking one of medicine’s biggest problems: the fact that most types of human cells—like those in the heart or liver—die when you keep them in a petri dish.
Raghu Chivukula, 29, Resident Physician, Massachusetts General Hospital – A microRNA he characterized shows early promise as a liver cancer drug.
Surbhi Sarna, 28, Founder, nVision Medical – Company envisions to create a technology to detect ovarian cancer quickly and early.
Sam Chaudhary, Liam Don, 27, 27, Cofounders, ClassDojo – A software company that helps teachers track classroom behavior.
Sayamindu Dasgupta, 29, PhD student, MIT Media Lab – Dasgupta is vital to the Lifelong Kindergarten Research Group’s Scratch project, which enables kids to program their own games, animated stories, and art and share them with millions of other children around the world.
Katelyn Donnelly, Saad Rizvi, 27, 28, SVPs, Pearson – Rizvi, executive director of efficacy, is an internationally recognized expert on global education, advises on large-scale reform across Asia, Europe, Africa and North America, and is the author of “Oceans of Innovation.”
LAW & POLICY
Noorain Khan, 29, Associate, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz – Rhodes Scholar specializes in M&A, corporate governance, debt offerings and funds practice.
Derek Khanna, 25, Tech policy scholar, Activist – Launched the cellphone unlocking campaign that included the first White House petition to reach 100,000 signatures, resulting in introduced legislation. Participated in StopWatching.Us coalition, leading to introduction of USA Freedom Act.
Nabiha Syed, 28, Attorney, Levine Sullivan Koch & Schulz – Considered one of the best emerging free speech lawyers.
MEDIA
Nikhil Sethi, Garrett Ullom, 25, 24, Cofounders, Adaptly – Adaptly is their solution for advertisers who are overwhelmed by the challenges of managing their campaigns across numerous social platforms.
MARKETING & ADVERTISING
Pranav Yadav, 28, CEO, Neuro-Insight – Neuro-Insight is a neuromarketing firm that has developed a patented brain-mapping technology to investigate and improve the quality of TV commercials, programming and platforms.
ENERGY
Adam Khan, 29, Founder, Akhan Tech – Diamonds are coming to the computer chip industry and Adam Khan’s company, Akhan Technology, is at the forefront.
Eesha Khare, 18, Young Scientist Award Winner, Intel International Science and Engineering Fair – Eesha’s invention could pave the way to a cell phone that can be fully charged in just seconds.
FOOD & WINE
Aditi Malhotra, 28, Founder, Tache Artisan Chocolate – The CEO-chocolatier trained in Switzerland at Glion Institute and then spent several months training with Christian Vautier before opening her own artisan chocolaterie.
FORBES 30 UNDER 30 INDIA 2015 LIST:
Art & Culture
- Swarupa Ananth-Sawkar, 28 – Percussionist
- Jim Sarbh, 27 – Theatre actor-director
- Kartik Sood, 27 – Painter & installation artist
- Nipun Dharmadhikari, 28 – Theatre actor-director-producer
- Mohini Dey, 18 – Bass guitarist
Design
- Dhairya Dand, 25 – Designer & researcher
- Neeti Kailas, 29 – Co-founder & director, Sohum Innovation Lab
E-Commerce
- Sahil Barua, 29 – Co-founder & CEO, Delhivery
- Pranshu Patni, 28 – Co-founder, CultureAlley
- Mehul Agrawal, 28 – Co-founder, FabFurnish
Entertainment
- Shraddha Kapoor, 27 – Film actor
- Chaitanya Tamhane, 27 – Filmmaker
- Aditi Mittal, 28 – Stand-up comedian
Fashion
- Ruchika Sachdeva, 27 – Founder, Bodice
Food & Hospitality
- Rahul Dua, 28 – Chef-partner, Cafe Lota
- Rahul Mehra, 29 – Microbrewery ‘activist’
Health Care
- Dr Saurav Das, 27 – Co-founder, NewDigm
- Shashank ND & Abhinav Lal, 27 / 27 – Co-founders, Practo Technologies
- Karthik Naralasetty, 25 – Founder, Socialblood
Law, Policy & Politics
- Guneet Kaur, Isha Khandelwal & Parijata Bharadwaj, 24 / 25 / 26 – Co-founders, Jagdalpur Legal Aid Group
- Shreya Rastogi & Lubhyathi Rangarajan, 24 / 27 – Legal activists, Death Penalty Litigation Clinic, NLU, Delhi
NGOs & Social Entrepreneurship
- Abhishek Choudhary & Saransh Vaswani, 25 / 25 – Co-founders, Saajha
- Prukalpa Sankar & Varun Banka, 23 / 23 – Co-founders, SocialCops
- Alok Kumar, 24 – Co-founder, Prayas Innovation
Science
- Prerna Sharma, 29 – Assistant professor, Indian Institute of Science (IISc)
Social Media, Mobile Tech & Communication
- Sameer Pitalwalla, 29 – CEO, Culture Machine
Sports
- Kidambi Srikanth, 21 – Badminton player
- Bhuvneshwar Kumar, 24 – Cricketer
- PV Sindhu,19 – Badminton player
Technology
- Samay Kohli & Akash Gupta, 28 / 25 – Co-founders, Grey Orange.