India’s Most Innovative Business Leaders

Innovative ways brings revolutionary transformation in the business space. Here are some of the most Innovative business leaders. 

1. Mrs. Deepti Sharma, Director at ThinkerPlace

Mrs. Deepti Sharma has always been driven and passionate about the work done by her during any stage of her life. Her primary area of expertise lies with children - in the education sector. This passion for always providing the right form of education and learning led her to establish the venture of Lexicon Kids. In 2020, Mrs. Deepti Sharma set out to bring S.T.E.M-based learning to India with the establishment of ThinkerPlace. ThinkerPlace is an ed-tech company driven to bring STEM learning to the children of India through interactive Do-It-Yourself educational toys. Her inspiration to establish this company was when her daughter questioned the practical use of concepts learnt by her and their use in day-to-day life. Dedicated to bringing about a change in children’s education, ThinkerPlace was conceived. 

2. Vijay Yalamanchili, Founder & CEO at Keka HR

With 4 outrageously successful startups to his name, Vijay Yalamanchili is a product designer and architect by profession and masters in ECE engineering by qualification. A strong advocate of loving your native language, he coined his 4 th company’s name with the colloquial meaning of a word. The zeal for excelling in the world of technology made Vijay establish software solution companies one after the other. He is defined as the alpha of the wolf pack by his employees and colleagues given his dynamic leadership qualities. Vijay believes in co-creating value with every person he interacts with and works with the mindset of there always being an unconventional means to leverage the human potential in making this world a better place. Proving his mettle since the day he stepped into the business world, he remains one of the most successful entrepreneurs of India. 

3. Jatin Bhatia, Founder at Explurger

Entrepreneur Jitin Bhatia’s social media platform Explurger is being touted as a disruptor in the social media space. This unique platform rewards people for being active on the app. It is the only social media app that offers an automatic travelogue to the user. Founder Jitin Bhatia shares, “You can do so much more on Explurger than just sharing pictures and videos. On our app, the user experience takes centre stage. Therefore, to respect people’s time on our app, we reward them. When you interact with other users, you earn counts. The counts add up, and you get a gamified level. With every level, new rewards open up for you. Then, we are the only ones who offer users an Artificial Intelligence-powered travelogue automatically. The gamified experience keeps things exciting. We have organically grown to have users from more than 40 countries — that says a lot about our global appeal!”

4. Shreya Sharma, Founder at Rest The Case

Ms. Shreya Sharma is an ambitious young entrepreneur and TedX speaker, who studied International relations at the prestigious Harvard university, Cambridge, Massachusetts and recently graduated from the Cardiff University, Wales with LLB hons. . After a lot of pondering, introspection and hard work she successfully built a legal aggregator platform, Rest The Case, that strives to make legal information and services approachable to the nation. By the people and for the people, Rest the case offers infinite opportunities for lawyers and clients and makes the law accessible to everyone in just a few clicks. In just the first year of its inception her company Rest The Case has been recognised as the best startup of 2021 by India 500. 

5. Virender Jeet, CEO at Newgen Software

Virender Jeet has been with Newgen since inception and manages the overall strategic and operational functions for the company’s entire portfolio of offerings. He oversees product development, global sales and marketing, and business enablement, and has spearheaded the filing of various patents in India and the US. 

Mr Jeet shares “Today, enterprises across sectors are looking to fast-track their digital journeys by embracing modern technologies. At Newgen Software, we are determined to help every enterprise in realizing its dream of establishing a modern, digital-first enterprise. Innovation is at the heart of everything we do at Newgen. I am a technology enthusiast with a number of patents to my credit. Apart from building Newgen’s flagship products, I have been instrumental in defining the technology roadmap for Newgen’s current and future product innovations. We live in the era of digital transformation, and Newgen, with its industry-recognized platforms and cutting-edge technologies, is well-positioned to ride the digital wave.”

6. Neha Juneja, CEO, IndiaP2P

Neha (alongwith Ravinder Voomidisingh and Mohit Gupta) started IndiaP2P with a vision to make productive investments offering high returns accessible to all of India to enable wealth generation for investors of all sizes while contributing constructively to economic growth. IndiaP2P today is an RBI licensed peer-to-peer lending platform offering ready-to-invest in portfolios of fractionalized, diverse loans earning up to 18% p.a. in fixed-income returns. Neha is a seasoned entrepreneur having previously co-founded & scaled Greenway - world’s largest clean cooking enterprise with ops across India and sub-Saharan Africa where she developed multiple credit partnerships with Banks, MFIs and NBFCs focused on women as borrowers.  

7. Avnish Chhabria, Founder at Wellbeing Nutrition

Avnish Chhabria is the founder of Wellbeing Nutrition, a research-based wholefood nutrition company that uses plant-based ingredients to deliver wellness to individuals with fast-paced active lives. At Wellbeing Nutrition, he sets the overall direction for the business and looks after new product innovations, Supplier Relationships, Branding/Packaging/Design and Operations. His vision for Wellbeing Nutrition is to ensure that the company has operations in 6 countries with over $100m in annualized revenue in the next 5 years. Wellbeing Nutrition developed cutting edge and new age dosage technologies and formats like "Melts" to make nutrition fun and delicious. Also Introduced "Slow" range for the first time in delayed release capsule Technology. Avnish is a certified nutritionist with a clear focus on feeding the body only what is good for it. He is also a serial entrepreneur with start-ups in the US and India.

8. Rishi Aggarwal Managing Director at JCBL Group

Rishi Aggarwal is the Managing Director of JCBL Group, a leading business conglomerate in India. A visionary and innovator at heart he joined the family business in 1996 after pursuing MBA(Finance) from the FORE School of Management. His story exhibits the nature of a classic entrepreneur. Under his leadership, the group has risen to new heights, achieving an average growth of more than 22%. Cutting-edge innovation, a stringent focus on quality, and stakeholder growth have always been the hallmarks of all his business operations.JCBL is a leading customised mobility solutions provider in India since 1989 that ventured into the unorganised sector and streamlined early manufacturing and high volume production. The company laid the foundation into this segment and was one of the foremost players in efficient manufacturing of body building parts of bus, parts and components for railways.