The Forbes' '30 under 30' list profiles about 360
young "ultra impressive up-and-comers" that the companies should
either "hire today" or would be working for them in the future as
they are the young people of today "who matter".
The magazine has selected the young turks from 12
diverse fields including energy, finance, media, law, entertainment, science,
design and technology.Among the Indian-origin people on the list is 17
year old Param Jaggi, a student and inventor at Austin College.An "award-winning high schooler", Jaggi
created algae-filled device that fits over a car's tailpipe and turns carbon
dioxide into oxygen.
Next is 23-year-old Vivek Nair, Chief Executive of
Damascus Fortune, who is developing a technology that transforms industrial
carbon emissions into carbon nanotubes.
In the finance sector is featured Vikas Mohindra,
Financial Advisor at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch. The 25-year-old broker gathered $38 million in
three years from scratch, including a $5 million retirement savings plan.
Next is Manvir Nijhar, Co-Head of European Equity
Derivatives Sales at Citigroup. The 28-year-old London School of Economics graduate
left BNP Paribas after a four-year stint to give "Citi's derivatives
business a jolt."
Following him is Kunal Shah, a 29-year-old Managing
Director at Goldman Sachs. The youngest managing director the global financial
giant has ever seen, Shah was promoted at 27 and is the "Cambridge math
grad turned rock star emerging markets trader," Forbes writes.
Making a mark in the field of science is
29-year-old Raj Krishnan, Chief Executive of Biological Dynamics who is
developing blood tests that use electric fields to detect key signals that a
patient has cancer from the blood.
At 27, Sidhant Gupta, a graduate student at the
University of Washington, is developing new sensors and software for the home
that conserve electricity, heat and gas.
Others featured in the list are 24-year-old Nikhil
Arora, co-Founder of a business that sells 'grow-your-own- mushroom' kits using
1 million lbs of recycled coffee grounds and 27-year-old Maneet Ahuja, a
producer at CNBC and a hedge fund expert who has been on Wall Street since she
was 17.
