20 lists featured 600 individuals.
By Dileep Thekkethil
“30 Under 30”, Forbes magazine’s annual list of young achievers, has 45 Indians and Indian-origin people in its ranks.
The list featured 600 men and women achievers under the age of 30 who are considered the significant young entrepreneurs, creative leaders and community leaders working to make the world a better place to live in.
The list is spread over 20 varied fields, such as consumer technology, education, media, manufacturing and industry, law and policy, social entrepreneurs, science and art and science.
“In the past, youth was a handicap to professional success. Getting older meant more resources, more knowledge, and more money. No more. Those who grew up in the tech age have way bigger ambitions — perfectly suited to the dynamic, entrepreneurial and impatient digital world they grew up in. If you want to change the world, being under 30 is now an advantage,” Forbes said, in a statement.
Ritesh Agarwal, 22, the founder and CEO of OYO Rooms, which is touted as the Airbnb of India, is listed in the consumer tech segment. “In a country that lacks a steady supply of budget hotel chains, Oyo has developed a network of 2,200 small hotels in 100 cities across India,” Forbes said.
Gagan Biyani and Neeraj Berry who co-founded Sprig, a mobile app that assists people to find and order healthy meals in the shortest time and 25- year old Karishma Shah, the youngest talent at Alphabet’s Google X moonshot factory, where the search giant places “smart people to come up with far-out technologies that can be applied to world’s big problem,” are the other Indian names listed in the consumer segment.
When it comes to Hollywood and entertainment segment, 27-year old Indo-Canadian writer-comedian Lily Singh, made it to the list for being the next generation star who used YouTube for gaining popularity.
Nila Das, 27 Vice President, Citigroup Mortgage, a bond trader running the bank’s secondary trading in agency collatoralized mortgage obligations, overseeing billions of dollars in volume each day, is an Indian Americans to be listed under the finance segment.
Others who have been listed in the finance sector are Minesh Bhatt, 29 Director, UBS; 29-year-old Divya Nettimi, an investment analyst at Viking Global Investors; Vikas Patel, a senior analyst at hedge fund Millennium Management and 29-year-old Neel Rai, an investment analyst at Caxton Associates.
Vishal Lugani, a senior associate at Greycroft Partners, and 27-year-old Amit Mukherjee, senior associate at New Enterprise Associates, are the two Indian-origin names listed as notable personalities in the venture capital segment.
When it comes to Indian names in the media segment, 27-year-old Nisha Chittal, social media and community manager at MSNBC and Ashish Patel, 29, senior vice president of Social Media at NowThis Media have made it to the list.
Leading names in manufacturing segment include Sampriti Bhattacharyya, the 28-year-old founder of Hydroswarm. Bhattacharyya is an MIT grad student who has developed underwater drones that are capable of autonomously communicating and working together to scan the ocean to look for lost planes, or measure oil spills or radiation under the sea. Her company, Hydroswarm, won $50,000 in prize money at this year’s MassChallenge. Another Indian-origin name in the list is Saagar Govil, CEO of Cemtrex, that produces environmental products and electronics solutions.
Anoop Jain, 28, founding director of Sanitation and Health Rights in India, is among the social entrepreneurs listed in the Forbes’ list of “30 Under 30”. His firm builds toilets, collects human waste and uses methane coming off that excrement to create clean water.
People who made it to the list for the law and policy field are 26-year-old Ashish Kumbhat, a monetary policy expert in the Federal Reserve Board, 27-year-old Dipayan Ghosh, privacy and public policy advisor at Facebook and 28-year-old Anisha Singh, the former lead of the international policy division of United Sikhs.
Sanjam Garg, 29, assistant professor, at the University of California Berkeley, found his place in the Forbes’ “30 Under 30’ list for science.
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You forgot “Yash Mulgaonkar” also from Mumbai, India!
http://www.forbes.com/pictures/ehde45emfdg/yash-mulgaonkar-27/