India&rsquo;s next chapter is being shaped by leaders who think beyond the conventional and turn bold ideas into meaningful impact. What sets them apart is not just what they have achieved, but how they approach change, opportunity, and growth. With fresh perspectives and a willingness to challenge the status quo, these emerging leaders are creating new benchmarks and influencing the way the future is being built. The Vision List brings together individuals whose ambition, resilience, and vision make them leaders to watch in the years ahead.
Kunal Shah, Founder, CRED &amp; Global Head of WhatsApp
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Kunal Shah is an entrepreneur and investor known for building businesses around a deep understanding of consumer behaviour. After co-founding FreeCharge and taking it from an early-stage venture to a major digital payments platform, Shah founded CRED in 2018 with a different proposition: rewarding financially responsible consumers while building trust into the experience of digital finance.
His approach has consistently centred on understanding incentives, challenging conventional assumptions, and creating products around how people actually behave rather than how businesses expect them to. Under his leadership, CRED expanded beyond credit card payments into a broader financial ecosystem.
In 2026, Shah took on a new global role as Head of WhatsApp following Meta&rsquo;s investment in CRED, marking another significant chapter in a career defined by product thinking, unconventional ideas, and an ability to build at scale.
Suresh Naik Ramavath,&nbsp; Founder &amp; CEO, Harley&rsquo;s India
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Suresh Naik Ramavath is an accomplished entrepreneur, business leader, and institution builder with over two decades of experience spanning consumer brands, manufacturing, education, telecom, and technology. An IIM Calcutta alumnus, he is the Founder &amp; CEO of Harley&rsquo;s India, a purpose-driven Indian Indicorn on a mission to emerge as a global unicorn in the premium desserts and confectionery sector.
Under his leadership, Harley&rsquo;s has achieved a Guinness World Record and rapidly expanded its presence across India. Beyond business, Suresh leads ISTTM Business School as Managing Director and chairs Harileela Education Society. He further contributes to India&rsquo;s corporate and academic ecosystem, serving two consecutive terms on the Governing Board of IIM Udaipur and as an Independent Director of an NSE-listed AI and technology company.
Through DICCI and Tribal Mantra, he has mentored over 200 entrepreneurs and was honoured with the Prime Minister&rsquo;s National Entrepreneurship Award 2018 by the Government of India.
Brijesh Ranilawala, Director, PB Holotech India
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Mr Brijesh Ranilawala, Director of PB Holotech India Private Limited, is a visionary entrepreneur redefining brand protection through innovation, precision and consistency. Established in Kolkata in 2000, PB Holotech has grown into a manufacturer and exporter of advanced holograms, security labels and packaging solutions.
With over 25 years of experience, three factories, 150-plus professionals and a focus on sustainability, the company serves sectors including FMCG, pharmaceuticals, liquor, tobacco, apparel and stationery. Its portfolio spans security holograms, self-adhesive and heat-transfer labels, in-mould labels, shrink sleeves, induction sealing wads, tapes, and specialised packaging products.
Guided by Mr Ranilawala&rsquo;s market knowledge, business acumen and commitment to international quality standards, PB Holotech helps brands safeguard authenticity while strengthening their visual identity. His leadership philosophy is best captured in his words: &ldquo;Innovation is for the daring, but true leadership is ultimately judged by consistency.&rdquo; This principle continues to drive the company&rsquo;s growth and global ambition.
Navneet Jhamb, Author &amp; Co-Founder, prOPIUM<a href="http://propium.ai" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">.ai</a>
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Navneet Jhamb is the author of Doublespeak, a sharp, paradox driven exploration of modern leadership that blends wit, strategic clarity, and global experience. As Managing Partner at Property Station Priv&eacute; and a former board leader across the US, Africa, China, and India, he distills three decades of transformation into a voice that is both provocative and deeply practical, urging leaders to decode complexity rather than be overwhelmed by it.
He is also co-founder of <a href="https://www.propium.ai/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">prOPIUM.ai</a>, the real estate data intelligence platform designed to treat real estate as a financial asset. By combining behavioural insight, data science, and transaction transparency, prOPIUM<a href="http://propium.ai" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">.ai</a> seeks to shift the market from intuition led decisions to precision led outcomes, redefining how India buys and sells property, a structural upgrade the country&rsquo;s property ecosystem has long needed.
Across his journey, Navneet champions a single philosophy: clarity is a competitive advantage. Through Doublespeak, he sharpens how leaders think; through prOPIUM<a href="http://propium.ai" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">.ai</a>, he is building an AI led proptech platform for a new era of Indian real estate shaped by intelligent, independent and insight led decision intelligence engines.
Aman Gupta, Co-founder &amp; Director, boAt
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Aman Gupta is the Co-founder of boAt and one of the entrepreneurs who helped reshape India&rsquo;s consumer electronics landscape. Before building boAt, he worked across finance, consulting, and consumer technology, including roles at CitiFinancial, KPMG, and Harman International.
With boAt, Gupta recognised an opportunity in a market where consumers wanted technology that was accessible, stylish, and suited to their everyday lives. The brand&rsquo;s growth was driven not only by its products, but by a distinctly consumer-first approach to branding, pricing, distribution, and digital marketing.
His influence extends beyond boAt through his work as an investor and as a judge on Shark Tank India, where he has become a recognisable voice in India's startup ecosystem. His story reflects the growing power of Indian consumer brands and the role that sharp positioning and an understanding of young consumers can play in building them.
Abhishek Chauhan, Senior Director, Sonatype
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Abhishek Chauhan is Senior Director, Engineering and India Site Leader at Sonatype, where he leads the company&rsquo;s India Innovation Hub across product, engineering, data, platform, customer success and business operations.
Over an 18+ year career spanning Sonatype, LendingTree, Wells Fargo and Deloitte, he has progressed from full-stack engineer to technology and GCC leader. At Sonatype, he has helped build and scale the India organization from inception to more than 125 professionals, establishing product ownership across Nexus Repository, Lifecycle, Firewall, Maven Central and AI-powered developer solutions.
His expertise spans enterprise product engineering, AI-first transformation, cloud platforms, cybersecurity, software supply chain security and building high-performing global teams. Recognized as Humans of GCC Hyderabad&rsquo;s 2026 &ldquo;Site Head of the Year,&rdquo; his vision is to position India&rsquo;s technology centers as strategic innovation hubs that build globally owned products, responsible AI systems and secure software at scale.
Ashish Agarwal, Co-Founder, Enzyme Offices
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Ashish is the entrepreneur behind Enzyme Offices, a rapidly growing managed workspace company built on a simple insight: businesses need flexible, efficient spaces that allow them to focus on growth. His entrepreneurial journey began unexpectedly when a delayed job offer led him to rent an office space and sublease its unused area, revealing the potential of the workspace business.
Coming from a traditional trading background, Ashish developed an early understanding of business fundamentals, particularly the importance of solving real problems, maintaining integrity, and building strong relationships with clients and vendors. Under his leadership, Enzyme Offices has grown significantly, with a presence across Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Delhi/NCR, and Pune.
Also an active angel investor, Ashish believes in backing founders and businesses solving tangible problems. His vision for Enzyme Offices reflects the changing future of work, where flexible, managed workspaces become essential infrastructure for growing businesses and entrepreneurial ecosystems.
Rohit Raj Maingi, Advisory Director, White Luxe Real Estate
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Rohit Raj Maingi brings three decades of experience across private banking and real estate advisory, giving him a distinctive perspective on how wealth is built, managed, and preserved. His career with institutions including Standard Chartered, HSBC, and Deutsche Bank shaped an approach to real estate that goes beyond transactions, treating property as an important component of a broader wealth strategy.
As Advisory Director at White Luxe Real Estate, Maingi works primarily with high-net-worth and ultra-high-net-worth clients, offering a boutique approach to luxury real estate in Gurgaon. The firm&rsquo;s philosophy, &ldquo;Advisory. Not Agency.,&rdquo; reflects his belief in providing considered counsel rather than conventional brokerage.
He is also the co-founder of Bottles &amp; Barrels Hospitality, which has navigated multiple market cycles. Building on his experience across banking, real estate, and wealth advisory, Maingi is now preparing to extend the White Luxe model beyond real estate, with a dedicated wealth management offering launching soon.
Raj Shamani, Entrepreneur, Podcaster &amp; Global Speaker
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Raj Shamani has built a distinctive place in India&rsquo;s entrepreneurial ecosystem by turning conversations into a platform for ideas, ambition, and business insight. An entrepreneur, angel investor, global speaker, and host of Figuring Out, Shamani has built one of the country&rsquo;s most recognised business-focused personal brands.
His work spans entrepreneurship, content, investing, and long-form conversations with prominent voices across business, culture, and public life. Through Figuring Out, he has created a space where conversations around careers, entrepreneurship, money, leadership, and personal growth reach a wide young audience.
Beyond content, Shamani has backed startups as an angel investor and co-founded House of X, extending his involvement from discussing entrepreneurship to actively participating in building businesses. His rise reflects a changing model of influence, where knowledge, storytelling, and community can become powerful tools for shaping how a new generation thinks about success and business.

The Vision List features Indian leaders shaping the future across technology, consumer brands, real estate, and entrepreneurship.

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