Early Professions of Top Indian Corporate Leaders

5. Sunil Bharti Mittal:

Sunil Bharti Mittal can be called as the Indian telecom tycoon. He is the Founder and Chairman and also the Group CEO of Bharati Enterprise. After graduating in Bachelor of Arts and Science at the Punjab University, Chandigarh in the year 1976, he started his first business at the very young age of 18 years with a capital investment of 20,000. His main business was to prepare crankshafts for local bicycle manufacturers. Later in the year 1980, he started an Import enterprise named Bharti Overseas Trading Corporation along with the support of his brothers Rakesh and Rajan. He is considered to be the first Indian entrepreneur to identify the mobile telecom business as a major growth area in a country like India.