Anand Mahindra is a third-generation member of the family that started the Mahindra Group. The group’s 20-plus industries range from automotive to agribusiness to information technology. Anand Mahindra was included on Barrons’ List of Top 30 CEOs worldwide (2016) and...

Mr. Piyush Gupta has been Chief Executive Officer and Director of DBS Group since 2009. Prior to joining DBS, Piyush had a 27 year career at Citigroup, where his last position was Chief Executive Officer for South East Asia, Australia and New Zealand. In addition, he...

Since David Vélez started Nubank in Brazil in 2013, it has grown to nearly 50 million customers worldwide. Vélez received venture funding from his former employer, Sequoia Capital, to help finance Nubank, and proceeded to challenge banks in Brazil and beyond by...

Dilhan Pillay Sandrasegara is the top executive at Temasek, a Singapore-based investment company with a portfolio of around $400 billion. Before joining Temasek in 2010, he was a lawyer specializing in mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance and corporate law....

Simpiwe “Sim” Tshabalala joined the Johannesburg-based Standard Bank Group in 2000 and was appointed CEO in 2008. He was born in Hlabisa, a poor area of South Africa, and grew up in Soweto. After initially training to be a lawyer, he switched to a banking career. He...

Woods Staton is executive chairman of Arcos Dorados, which employs nearly 95,000 people in 2,000 restaurants across 20 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. Staton was previously a joint venture partner of McDonald’s in Argentina. He founded Arcos Dorados when...

Mona Ataya, CEO and Founder of Mumzworld, is one of the most successful female entrepreneurs in the Middle East, with her company reaching more than 2.5 million people across the region since 2011. She previously held positions at Procter & Gamble and Johnson &...

Mudassir Sheikha is the CEO and co-founder of Careem, which started out as a ride-sharing company and has expanded to deliver a range of services to customers in the Middle East. In January of 2020, Careem was acquired by Uber for $3.1 billion. Before starting Careem,...

Alan was appointed Chief Executive Officer in January 2019. As CEO of Unilever, Alan is responsible for leading one of the world’s largest and most geographically diverse consumer goods businesses, with presence in 190 countries, serving 2.5 billion people every day....

Roz Brewer has been CEO of the Walgreens Boots Alliance since March 2021. She previously held executive positions at Starbucks, Sam’s Club, Walmart and Kimberly Clark. She was ranked No. 6 on Fortune’s 50 Most Powerful Women in Business and was named one of the 25...