The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) on Thursday named Indian Billionaire and Aditya Birla Group Chairperson Kumar Mangalam Birla the ‘Global Entrepreneur of the Year’ in Business Transformation.
With this, Kumar Mangalam Birla became the first Indian industrialist to bag this award, TiE said in a statement.
Silicon-valley-based TiE presented this award to the Birla Group Chairman at the TiE Global Summit awards ceremony organised in Dubai, for his “extraordinary leadership of a globally diversified conglomerate during the unprecedented period of global turmoil induced by the coronavirus pandemic.”
Kumar Mangalam Birla has now joined the club of global entrepreneurs who have been facilitated with the award earlier, including– 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 award winners are selected by an independent jury chaired by venture capitalist Tim Draper, the founder of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Draper University, Draper Venture Network, Draper Associates and Draper Goren Holm.
To express his gratitude, Birla said: “It is an honour to receive this prestigious award in a year that has been marked by such unprecedented change. I receive this award on behalf of 1,40,000 colleagues from over 100 nationalities.”
He continued, “Over a broad sweep of time, TiE has enabled the entrepreneurship culture to flourish through a unique style of nurturing, mentoring and networking.”
Praveen Tailam, Chair, TiE Global Board of Trustees said, “These awards are meant to acknowledge the enablers of the global ecosystem. These are the people who are providing opportunities for wealth creation, job creation, and the inspiration to our next generation of enablers.”