Lyngdoh, I-flex chief, Venu among 25 Asian leaders

After striking gold by developing a stock trading system being used by global wire service Reuters, Hukku broke away from his employer Tata Consultancy and started I-flex in early 1990s and within years his banking solution named ‘Flexcube’ became famous with users across 90 countries.

Narrating the long and arduous journey for revival of family company TVS by its present CEO Srinivasan, the Business Week said “by 2001, TVS had become strong enough to split with Suzuki on favourable term and start manufacturing on its own.

“A year later, the company won the Deming Prize, a coveted international award on quality management,” the publication said while terming Srinivasan’s TVS Motor as “India’s hottest producer of motorcycles”. The magazine said “India’s upright CEC was determined to ensure that voters could get to the polls without threat of violence or fear of ballot-box stuffing.”