Ajay Singh Banga stands out as The Only SIKH Indian in Fortune’s ’2014′s Top People in Business’ list! MasterCard President and CEO Ajay Banga reflects on how being a member of the turban-wearing Sikh minority from India has impacted his business career and personal life in the United States. He spoke at Stanford Graduate School of Business' View From The Top speaker series on April 24, 2014.
Hear this amazing interview with Ajay Singh Banga as he reflects on having success as a minority in America and overcoming discrimination by "dealing with it, not hiding from it."What he says is it doesn't matter who you are but what matters is what and how you do things in your life that defines you.
Ajay Singh Banga Brings Pride stands out as The Only Sikh Indian in Fortune’s ’2014′s Top People in Business’ list. MasterCard president and CEO, Ajay Singh Banga is the only Sikh Indian to make it in Fortune’s ’2014′. Mr Banga, who studied economics at Delhi University’s St. Stephen’s College and received his MBA from IIM, Ahmedabad ranked number 28 in the list. He spent 13 years of his working life with Nestle India before moving to PepsiCo, Citigroup and eventually MasterCard which he joined in 2009.
To hear him talk philosophically about a “world beyond cash,” he sounds more like a Silicon Valley futurist than a payment-processing executive. The first thing you notice about Banga, 54, is the thick black beard on his face and the elegant black turban atop his head. The turban is central to Sikhism (Banga was raised Sikh in Pune, India, the son of a retired Indian military general) but is a rare sight in U.S. boardrooms. In a graduation speech at New York University’s Stern School of Business in June, Banga conceded as much: “I tend to stand out in a room,” he said. “Turbans and beards will do that to you.”
A Man who is as firm on his mission as on his religion gathers great respect & pride from every Indian and Sikh community!
Source: barusahib.org
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