4. Vikram Pandit:

Vikram Shankar Pandit was born on 14th January 1958 in Nagpur, Maharashtra, to an affluent Marathi Brahmin family. His father was an Executive Director at Sarabhai Chemicals in Baroda.

Vikram Pandit was the youngest Chief Executive Officer of the Citigroup when he took over the company in 2007. He was the first Indian to achieve this feat and the job was regarded as the toughest in the world due to the poor performance of the company. And on October 16, he unexpectedly resigned as the CEO of Citigroup.

Pandit was a brilliant boy in school and he moved to U.S. when he was 16 years old. After completing his B.S. and M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and MBA from Columbia University, he was determined to get a PhD in a different subject. And his guide recommended him to take up finance, as it was a good field. Pandit followed the suggestion, and switched to finance.