Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis will be guest of honour and Union Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu will be the chief guest at the felicitation ceremony to be held on February 5 in Mumbai.
A nine member Jury led by Kumar Mangalam Birla, chairman of Aditya Birla Group selected the finalists. The other jury members include Arun Duggal, director, Shriram Capital; Kalpana Morparia, chief executive officer, J P Morgan; Keki Mistry, vice chairman & CEO, Housing Development Finance Corporation; Mallika Srinivasan, chairman and CEO, TAFE Group; R. Seshasayee, executive Vice Chairman, Hinduja Group India; Sandeep Naik, managing director, General Atlantic; Shardul Shroff, managing partner, Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A Shroff & Co. and Dr. Yusuf K Hamied, chairman, Cipla.
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The finalists include Amith Agarwal, director, StarAgri Warehousing and Collateral Management; Sanjay Agarwal, Founder and Managing Director, Au Financiers; Kunal Bahl, Chief Executive Officer and Rohit Bansal, Chief Operating Officer, Jasper Infotech (Snapdeal); Sanjiv Bajaj, Managing Director, Bajaj Finserv; Achal Bakeri, Founder, Chairman & Managing Director, Symphony; Arundhati Bhattacharya, Chairman, State Bank of India; Anita Dongre, Founder & Chief Creative Officer, And Designs India; Ashish Hemrajani, Chief Executive Officer, BigTree Entertainment (Bookmyshow.com); Ashok Kajaria, Chairman and Managing Director, Kajaria Ceramics; Yogesh Mahansaria, CEO, Alliance Tire Group; V.K. Mathews, Executive Chairman, IBS Software Services; M.B. Parekh, Chairman and Managing Director, Pidilite Industries; Dr. Cyrus S. Poonawalla, Chairman and Managing Director, Serum Institute Of India; Ajit Prabhu, Chairman and CEO, QuEST Global; Salil Singhal, Chairman and MD, PI Industries.
Kotak Mahindra Bank's Uday Kotak, Indigo's Rahul Bhatia, Tata Group's Ratan Tata were some of the previous recipients of the award.