Anirudh Dhoot, Director, Videocon Group, India

It was the happiest day for Anirudh Venugopal Dhoot when he kickstarted the Luna his grandfather, Nandlal, gifted him on his 15th birthday. “Every time I think about my childhood, I remember that teenager riding the bike on the streets of Ahmednagar in Maharashtra, the same place where my grandfather had set up the company’s first factory in 1984. My father and uncles assisted him,” says the director and sales-marketing head of the consumer electronics division of Videocon when I meet him at Mittal Towers in Nariman Point. Dressed in formal black trousers and a white shirt, Dhoot has a calm persona but talks with an eager voice, keen to share his life story.