10 Indians figure in Forbes’ ‘30 under 30’ list

Among the Indian-origin people on the list is 17 year old Param Jaggi,who created algae-filled device that fits over a car’s tailpipe and turns carbon dioxide into oxygen.

Next is 23-year-old Vivek Nair,Chief Executive of Damascus Fortune,who is developing a technology that transforms industrial carbon emissions into carbon nanotubes.

Vikas Mohindra,25,at Bank of America Merrill Lynch gathered $38 million in three years from scratch,including a $5 million retirement savings plan.

Next is Manvir Nijhar,Co-Head Of European Equity Derivatives Sales at Citigroup and Kunal Shah,29,MD at Goldman Sachs.

Making a mark in the field of science is 29-year-old Raj Krishnan,CEO of Biological Dynamics who is developing blood tests that use electric fields to detect key signals that a patient has cancer from the blood.

Sidhant Gupta,27,a graduate student at the University of Washington,is developing new sensors and software for the home that conserve electricity,heat and gas.

Others featured in the list are Nikhil Arora,24,co-founder of a business that sells ‘grow-your-own-mushroom’ kits and Maneet Ahuja, 27,a producer at CNBC and a hedge fund expert who has been on Wall Street since she was 17.