America
Many Indian-Americans among Forbes' 'young game changers'
Washington, Feb 12
At least 26 Americans of
Indian or South Asian origin figure in this year's Forbes 30 Under 30
list or what the US business magazine calls "today's greatest gathering
of young game changers, movers and makers."
"Our fourth annual
celebration is bigger than ever: 600 millennials in 20 fields" says the
magazine featuring Indian Americans in 11fields with dominating presence
in Finance and Science and Health Care with five each.
Here is the list:
Finance
1.
Ganesh Betanabhatla, 28, Managing director, Talara Capital; Former
JPMorgan oil & gas investment banker and vice president at Pine
Brook Partners.
2. Rushabh Doshi, 29, Trader, DW Investment Management; Former Morgan Stanley and Brevan Howard trader.
3. Chaitanya Mehra, 28, Portfolio manager, Och-Ziff Capital Management;
Former Goldman Sachs trader.
4. Neil Mehta, 29, Founder, Greenoaks Capital
5.
Vivek Ramaswamy, 28, Investment analyst, QVT Financial;
Co-managing one of the hedge fund industry's largest biotech-focused
portfolios for Daniel Gold's hedge fund.
Technology
6. Sahil Lavingia, 21, Founder, Gumroad; A former designer at Pinterest, Lavingia is the founder and CEO of Gumroad.
Social Entrepreneurs
7.
Karan Chopra, 29, Cofounder, GADCO; Karan Chopra grew up in Ghana
and is now helping the nation's poorest farmers reap higher profits.
8.
Krishna Ramkumar, 28, Cofounder, Avanti; Krishna Ramkumar founded
Avanti, a group of learning centers in Mumbai, Delhi, Kanpur and Chennai
that provides 750 bright, low-income high school students with science
and math education.
9. Ajaita Shah, 29, Founder, Frontier
Markets; Ajaita Shah's India-based Frontier Markets brings clean energy
to families at the base of the pyramid.
10. Kavita Shukla,
29, Founder, Fenugreen; Kavita Shukla invented and patented FreshPaper-a
low-cost, compostable paper infused with edible organic spices that
keeps produce fresh two to four times longer.
Sports
11.
Muthu Alagappan, 23, Consultant, Ayasdi; Developed a set of advanced
statistical basketball metrics; he groups players by statistical
strengths to surmise that a team effectively breaks down to thirteen
positions rather than five.
12. Megha Parekh, 28, Vice president, Jacksonville Jaguars; Harvard Law School graduate and former Proskauer associate.
Games
13.
Amir Rao, 29, Studio director, Supergiant Games; Co-founder of
Supergiant Games and co-creator of the action role-playing video game
Bastion.
Science & Healthcare
14. Divya Nag, 22, Cofounder, Stem Cell Theranostics and StartX Med;
Divya
Nag is attacking one of medicine's biggest problems: the fact that most
types of human cells-like those in the heart or liver-die when you keep
them in a petri dish.
15. Raghu Chivukula, 29, Resident
Physician, Massachusetts General Hospital; A microRNA he characterized
shows early promise as a liver cancer drug.
16. Surbhi Sarna,
28, Founder, nVision Medical; Company envisions to create a technology
to detect ovarian cancer quickly and early.
17. Sam
Chaudhary, 27 and Liam Don, 27, Cofounders, ClassDojo; A software
company that helps teachers track classroom behaviour.
18.
Sayamindu Dasgupta, 29, PhD student, MIT Media Lab; Dasgupta is vital to
the Lifelong Kindergarten Research Group's Scratch project, which
enables kids to programme their own games, animated stories, and art and
share them with millions of other children around the world.
Law & Policy
19.
Noorain Khan, 29, Associate, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz;
Rhodes Scholar specializes in M&A, corporate governance, debt
offerings and funds practice.
20. Derek Khanna, 25, Tech
policy scholar, Activist; Launched the cellphone unlocking campaign that
included the first White House petition to reach 100,000 signatures,
resulting in introduced legislation. Participated in StopWatching.Us
coalition, leading to introduction of USA Freedom Act.
21. Nabiha Syed, 28, Attorney, Levine Sullivan Koch & Schulz; Considered one of the best emerging free speech lawyers.
Media
22.
Nikhil Sethi, 25 and Garrett Ullom, 24, Cofounders, Adaptly;
Adaptly is their solution for advertisers who are overwhelmed by the
challenges of managing their campaigns across numerous social platforms.
Marketing & Advertising
23.
Pranav Yadav, 28, CEO, Neuro-Insight; Neuro-Insight is a
neuromarketing firm that has developed a patented brain-mapping
technology to investigate and improve the quality of TV commercials,
programming and platforms.
Energy
24. Adam Khan, 29,
Founder, Akhan Tech; Diamonds are coming to the computer chip industry
and Adam Khan's company, Akhan Technology, is at the forefront.
25.
Eesha Khare, 18, Young Scientist Award Winner, Intel International
Science and Engineering Fair; Eesha's invention could pave the way to a
cell phone that can be fully charged in just seconds.
Food & Wine
26.
Aditi Malhotra, 28, Founder, Tache Artisan Chocolate; The
CEO-chocolatier trained in Switzerland at Glion Institute and then spent
several months training with Christian Vautier before opening her own
artisan chocolaterie.
(Arun Kumar can be contacted at [email protected])