Famous Chartered Accountants

• Last night I decided to check a few good and famous Chartered Accountants. I found CAs who have excelled in their field and reached to great heights.

Since we are not allowed to advertise I had to try hard and was able to come up with a few names.

1. K.M Birla- The chairman of Aditya Birla (the Tata Birla wala Birla) Group. This guy is my main inspiration. A Marwari and a CA. I can almost connect with him (except the fact that he was born with a silver spoon). Also did MBA from London Business School.
   
2. MotilalOswal - Co Promoter, Chairman & Managing Director of Motilal OswalGroup(As of end of financial year 2008, the group net worth was Rs.7 billion) . One of the dudes who said a no to their family business and did wonders withbroking business.
   
3.  ShekharKapur - You know this guy if you have watched India’s Got Talent Season 1.He was the only guy who sat beside Sonali Bendre and he was there because he directed Mr. India. And yes he is a CA. The most amazing thing is that his Wikipedia profile says that he did CharteredAccountancy at the behest of his parents.
   
4.  DeepakParekh - Padma Bhushan winner and the Chairman of HDFC. Quoting Wikipedia, “Apioneer in mortgage finance, he has enabled scores of Indian middle classpeople to own their houses or apartments through affordable loans.” This guyshould be the ideal role model for all chartered accountants. A bunch of rebelsmight have Shekhar Kapur as their role model too.
   
5. S.Gurumurthy– The only greatest thing Abhishek Bacchan did apart from marrying AishwaryaRai was act in a movie called Guru. In the movie R.Madhvan plays an aggressive journalistwho is hell bent on exposing the corrupt means of reliance( guru’s company withsome other name in the movie).
   Guru is based on true events and R.Madhvan is strongly based on S. Gurumurthy. Gurumurthy’sarticles in The Indian Express caused a national stir in the corporate worldand did massive damage to Reliance. Yes! Chartered Accountants have been glorified in the movies too.
   
6.  AdityaPuri – MD of HDFC. We told you we are bad at advertising. He doesn’t even have a Wikipedia page.
   
7.  RakeshJhunjhunwala – Another Investor. A few boring facts that he is India’s 51^strichest man and world’s 1062th. He has been described as the "Pied Piperof Indian bourses".
   
8.  PrannoyRoy – The founder and Executive Chairman of NDTV. First cousin of ArundhatiRoy. Also studied at Queen Marry, University of London.  His father was known as Hurricane Roy.  Some people are just weird and successful.
   
9.    RameshwarThakur – Senior Indian National Congress Politician. Former Governor of MP,AP, Kartnatka. Like a true politician, he is surrounded by controversies ofeating money.
   
10.  T.V.Mohandas Pai –  (Imagine a guy with TV as his name). CFO of Infosys from 1994 to 2006. In 2000, he, along withothers, founded the Akshaya Patra Foundation, Bangalore, to start a midday mealprogram for school children. Today, the midday meal program feeds over12,00,000 children in 7,669 government schools across seven states in India,primarily in Bangalore's rural and urban areas, Mysore, Mangalore, Hubli,Mathura, Jaipur, Baran district of Rajasthan, Nayagarh district of Orissa,Puri, Bhilai, Guwahati, Ahmedabad and Vadodara. This initiative has turned outto be the largest midday meal program in the world.
    
11. Shri K.Rahman Khan - A chartered accountant turned politician from Karnataka, anda long-time member of the Indian National Congress. He is the Deputy Chairmanof the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian Parliament. Before holdingthe post of the Dy Chairman he was the Union Minister of State for Chemicalsand Fertilizers. Mr Khan is one of the most prominent Muslim leaders of thecountry.
    
12. AkashSarawgi – Just another CA Aspirant. preparing for the final exams now. Took Science but loathed it more than anything. Finally studying commerce. Ok! I will shut up now.
    
    Wait… I am not even a Chartered Accountant.
    Since we are not allowed to advertise, you can always come up with more names. If you know more, please tell me too.