Vikas Pota
Vikas Pota
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One-Line Bio: Vikas Pota is the author of ‘India Inc: How India’s Top Ten Entrepreneurs Are Winning Globally’ and is an established media commentator and public speaker on the emergence of India as a global force.
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Short Bio: Vikas Pota is the author of ‘India Inc: How India’s Top Ten Entrepreneurs Are Winning Globally’ and an established media commentator and public speaker on the emergence of India as a global force. He is often asked to provide insight and analysis into Indian business and political matters to international audiences.
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100 Word Bio: Vikas Pota is the author of ‘India Inc: How India’s Top Ten Entrepreneurs Are Winning Globally’ . The book narrates the phenomenal journeys of ten Indian entrepreneurs, many of whom have gone from being garage start ups to achieving global success in their lifetimes. Vikas is often asked to provide commentary and insight into Indian business and political matters to the media. He writes a blog on globalization and India, and appears regularly on CNN, BBC News, BBC World TV and Al-Jazeera.
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Full Bio: Vikas Pota is the author of ‘India Inc: How India’s Top Ten Entrepreneurs Are Winning Globally’ . He is often asked to provide his commentary and insight into Indian business and political matters to the media. He writes a blog on globalization and India, and appears regularly on CNN, BBC News, BBC World TV and Al-Jazeera. He has commented in the Financial Times, the Guardian, the Observer, and The Independent on Sunday on issues ranging from the contentious subject of off-shoring and outsourcing, the impact of the Indian Elections on economic reforms, terrorist attacks such as those experienced in Mumbai in 2008 to the impact of David Cameron’s first Prime Ministerial visit to India.
In his book ‘India Inc: How India’s Top Ten Entrepreneurs Are Winning Globally‘, Vikas narrates the phenomenal journey’s of ten Indian entrepreneurs, many of whom have gone from being garage start ups to achieving stunning global success in their lifetimes. Through his book, he provides examples of how Indian entrepreneurs are taking on and beating their global competitors in their own back yards and argues that Indian sensibilities will increasingly shape business debates around the world.
He has advised some of the world’s leading firms that have invested billions of dollars in India. In addition to briefing CEOs, Ministers, Parliamentarians, and senior journalists on breaking developments in South Asia, he has taken part in discussions; authored submissions to influential Parliamentary Select Committees, and has delivered speeches to think tanks and the Trades Union Congress on critical subjects like the off-shoring and the globalisation of services.
Pota’s been recognised by substantive persons such as S. A. Hasan, Director of Tata Ltd ‘few stand out as influential or as passionate as Vikas Pota, in providing a fresh, new perspective to the subject of India Inc. going global.’ James Caan of BBC programme Dragons Den says Pota provides ‘An insightful and thought-provoking look’. He lives with his family in London, UK.
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