The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) on December sixteen named Aditya Birla Group Chairman Kumar Mangalam Birla the Global Entrepreneur of the Year in Business Transformation.
Kumar Mangalam Birla has now end up the primary Indian industrialist to acquire this award, TiE stated in a statement.
Silicon-valley-primarily based totally TiE conferred this award at the Birla Group Chairman on the TiE Global Summit awards rite held in Dubai for his “incredible management of a globally varied conglomerate at some stage in the exceptional length of world turmoil triggered via way of means of the coronavirus pandemic.”
Kumar Mangalam Birla joined some of international marketers who acquired the TiE entrepreneurship award this 12 months along with Elon Musk (Global Entrepreneur of the Year – Immigrant Entrepreneur), Jeff Bezos (Global Entrepreneur of the Year – First Generation), and Satya Nadella (Global Entrepreneur of the Year – Entrepreneurial CEO). The awardees have been decided on via way of means of an unbiased jury chaired via way of means of project capitalist Tim Draper, who based the Draper University.
After receiving the award, Birla stated: “It is an honour to acquire this prestigious award in a 12 months that has been marked via way of means of such exceptional change. I acquire this award on behalf of 1,40,000 colleagues from over one hundred nationalities.”
He then went directly to commend TiE saying: “Over a extensive sweep of time, TiE has enabled the entrepreneurship tradition to flourish via a completely unique fashion of nurturing, mentoring and networking.”
Praveen Tailam, Chair, TiE Global Board of Trustees stated, “These awards are supposed to renowned the enablers of the worldwide ecosystem. These are the individuals who are presenting possibilities for wealth creation, task creation, and the muse to our subsequent technology of enablers.”