Isha, Akash Ambani, Byju, Poonawalla debut on Fortune's '40 under 40' list

The Fortune magazine has come out with a list of 40 influential people below the age of 40. The list covers five sectors including finance, technology, health, government/politics and media/entertainment. The following Indian business leaders made it to the list:
 

Isha Ambani, Akash Ambani, Directors, Reliance Jio

FILE PHOTO: Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani with wife Nita Ambani and children Anant Ambani, Isha Ambani and Akash Ambani in Mumbai

Scions of the Reliance empire, the 28-year olds are now taking active interest in various M&A deals recently signed by RIL with various global investors and local companies. Reliance is a family business, says Fortune and Akash joined the company in 2014 after receiving an economics degree from Brown University. Isha joined a year later, following stints at Yale, Stanford and McKinsey. "As Jio board members, they helped seal the company's recent megadeal with Facebook -- $5.7 billion for a 9.99% stake -- plus major follow-on investments from marquee tech titans like Google, Qualcomm, and Intel. The flurry of investments lent the business an eye-popping $65 billion private valuation," Fortune said.
 

Byju

, Founder, Byju, 39



Since its founding in 2011, the education startup has raised over $1 billion and is now worth more than $10 billion. Byju's has become India's biggest education technology company, helping millions of students prepare and study for the most important exams of their lives while teaching them a thing or two about core topics like mathematics and science.
 

Dhaval Shah/Dharmil Sheth, Co-founders, PharmEasy

Dhaval Shah and Dharmil Sheth

In Pharmeasy, 31-year olds, Dhaval Shah (the doctor) and Dharmil Sheth (the engineer) have created a pharmaceutical delivery company with an emphasis on logistics. PharmEasy has been around since 2015, serves more than 700 cities, delivering both medications and diagnostic services, and has raised more than $300 million.
 

Adar Poonawalla, CEO, Serum Institute of India, 39

Adar Poonawalla, CEO, Serum Institute

The man is in the news as Serum Institute gears up to produce the vaccine to fight coronavirus which has disrupted the entire world. "With the race to develop a vaccine for Covid-19 in full swing, SII, with its enormous manufacturing capacity, has been an obvious place for pharma companies to turn. SII inked deals with both AstraZeneca and Novavax, committing to manufacture one billion doses of each vaccine, priced at $3 a shot, for low- and middle-income countries," says Fortune.
 

Manu Kumar Jain, global vice president, Xiaomi, and managing director, Xiaomi India 

Manu Kumar Jain, Managing Director, Xiaomi India

39-year old Jain knew nothing about smartphones when Chinese giant Xiaomi tapped him in 2014 to build its India operations from the ground up. But he did know a thing or two about startups, Fortune said. The last company he founded, Jabong, was a fashion e-commerce player that was sold to Flipkart.