Business Acroniyms and Indian Company Ceos

3COM 3M 4P 5S 7S

Computer, Communications and Compatibility Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Price, Product, Place and Promotion Seiri, Seiton, Seiso, Seiketsu, Shitsuke Strategy, Structure, Systems, Style, Staff, Skills, Shared values

A AA AAAA ABC ADI ADR ADR AFTP AIDA ALBM ALBRS ALDEP ANCOM ARPANET ASCI ASCII ASEAN ASIC ASP ASP ATM AUI AUP

Average Audience American Association of Advertising Agencies Audit Bureau of Circulations Area of Dominant Influence Alternative Dispute Resolution American Depository Receipt Anonymous File Transfer Protocol Attention Interest Desire Action Automated Lending and Borrowing Mechanism Automated Lending and Borrowing in Rolling Settlement Automated Layout Design Programs Andean Common Market Advanced Research Projects Agency Network Advertising & Standards Council of India American Standard Code for Information Interchange Association of South East Asian Nations Application Specific Integrated Circuit Active Server Pages Application Service Provider Automated Teller Machine Auxiliary Unit Interface Acceptable Use Policy

B B2B B2C BARS BBB BBDO BBS BDI BDI BEST

Business to Business Business to Consumer Behaviourally Anchored Rating Scale Better Business Bureau Batten Barton Durstine & Osborn Bulletin Board Service Behavioral Description Interview Brand Development Index BrihnanMumbai Electric Supply and Transport

BIMST-EC BLESS BML BMW BOM BOO BOOT BOS BOT BRI BSNL

Bangladesh India Myanmar Srilanka Thailand - Economic Council Borrowing and Lending Securities Schemes Bean Markup Language Bayerische Motoren Werke Bill of Materials Build Own Operate Build Own Operate Transfer Behavior Observation Scale Build Operate Transfer Basic Rate Interface Bharath Sanchar Nigam Limited

C C2C CAGR CALS CASE CBL CBT CDI CFRS CIM CISC CIX CMM CMMI CMYK CNS CODASYL COPICS CORBA CORBAIIOP CORELAP CPC CPI CPM CPP CRAFT CRM CRISIL CSO

Consumer to Consumer Compounded Annual Growth Rate Continuous Acquisition Life-Cycle Support Computer Aided Software Engineering Common Business Language Computer Based Training Category Development Index Carry Forward in Rolling Settlement Computer Integrated Manufacturing Common Instruction Set Computer Commercial Internet Exchange Capability Maturity Model Capability Maturity Model Integrated Cyan Magenta Yellow BlacK Continuous Net Settlement Committee on Data Systems Languages Communication Oriented Production and Information Control System Common Object Request Broker Architecture CORBA Internet Inter ORB Protocol Computerised Relationship Layout Planning Cost Per Click Consumer Price Index Cost Per Thousand Cost Per rating Point Computerised Relative Allocation of Facilities Techniques Customer Relationship Management Credit Rating Investment Services India Limited Central Statistical Organisation

D D2D DAGMAR DDB DES DFS DGFT DMA DMB&B DNA DNS DRAM

Developer to Developer Defining Advertising Goals for Measured Advertising Results Doyle Dane Bernbach Data Encryption Standard Dancer Fitzerald Sample Director General of Foreign Trade Designated Market Area D'arcy Masius Benton & Bowles Distributed Internet Application Architecture Domain Name System Dynamic Random Access Memory

E EAP EEOC EEPROM EFT EOI EOU EPROM EPS EPZ ERP ESOP EVA

Employee Assistance Program Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Eletrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory Electronic Funds Transfer Expression of Interest Export Oriented Unit Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory Earnings Per Share Export Processing Zone Enterprise Resource Planning Employee Stock Option Plan Economic Value Added

F FAME FCB FEP FICCI FPML FPO FSI FTP

Facilities Maintenance Engineering Foote Cone & Belding Fair Employment Practices Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry Financial Products Markup Language Fruit Products Order Free Standing Insert File Transfer Protocol

G

G2C GAAP GIF GIS GIST GPRS GRP GSM

Government to Consumer Generally Accepted Accounting Procedures Graphics Interchange Format Geographic Information System Graphics and Intelligence based Script Technology General Packet Radio System Gross Rating Point Global System for Mobile Communication

H HDML HMO HRIS HSBC HTTP HUDCO HUT

Handheld Device Markup Language Health Maintenance Organisation Human Resource Information System Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Hyper Text Transport Protocol Housing and Urban Development Corporation Limited Households Using Television

I IAB IANA ICANN ICRA IEC IETF IIOP IMAP IMC IMF IMFL IMPACT IMRB IMRO IRC IRDA ISDN

Internet Advertising Bureau Internet Assigned Numbers Authority Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers Investment Information and Credit Rating Agency Inter Exchange Carrier Internet Engineering Task force Internet Inter operable ORB Protocol Internet Message Access Protocol Integrated Market Communications International Monitary Fund Indian Made Foreign Liquor Inventory Management Program and Control Techinques Indian Market Research Bureau Investment Management Regulatory Organisation Internet Relay Chat Insurance Regulatory Development Authority Integrated Services Digital Network

J JAIN (TV)

Joint American Indian Network

JIT JPEG

Just In Time Joint Photographic Experts Group

K KMI KMI

Key Man Insurance Knowledge Management Initiative

L LINTAS LEC

Levers International Advertising Services Local Exchange Carrier

M MAT MBO MCFS MIME MINX MOM MP3 MPEG MRAM MTNL MUD

Minimum Alternative Tax Management By Objectives Modern Carry Forward System MultiPurpose Internet Mail Extension Multimedia Information Network eXchange Message Oriented Middleware Moving Pictures Experts Group 1 Audio Layer 3 Moving Pictures Experts Group Magnetic Random Access Memory Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited Multi User Dungeon

N NABARD NAV NASDAQ NCAER NCSA NNTP NOIDA NSDL NYMEX NYSE

National Bank for Agricultural and Rural Development Net Asset Value National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation System National Council for Applied Economic Research National Center for SuperComputing Applications Network News Transport Protocol New Okhla Industrial Development Authority National Securities Depository Limited New York Metal Exchange New York Stock Exchange

O OJT

On the Job Training

OTCEI OSHA

Over The Counter Exchange of India Occupational Safety and Health Administration

P P2P PAQ PDA PDF PERL PFA PFR PGP PHP PING PnP POP POP PPP PRI PSA PTA PUT PVT

Peer to Peer Position Analysis Questionnaire Personal Digital Assistant Portable Document Format Practical Extraction and Report Language Prevention of Food Adulteration Portable Font Resource Pretty Good Privacy Personal Home Pages Pocket Internet Gopher Plug and play Point of Presence Point of Purchase Point to Point Protocol Primary Rate Interface Public Service Advertising Preferential Trade Arrangement Persons Using Television Persons Viewing Television

Q QWL QANTAS

Quality of Work Life Queensland and Northern Territory Ariel Service

R RAID RAM RFC RISC RJP ROM ROP ROS RSA RTF

Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks Random Access Memory Request for Comments Reduced Instruction Set Computer Realistic Job Previews Read Only Memory Run Of Press Run of Schedule Rivest-Shamir-Adleman Rich Text Format

S SAN SBU SEBI SEC SIU SGML SLIP SMTP SOBO SOHO SOS SOV SRAM STAR (TV)

Storage Area Network Strategic Business Unit Securities Exchange Board of India Securities Exchange Commission Sets In Use Standard Generalised Markup Language Serial Line Internet Protocol Simple Mail Transfer Protocol Small Office Business Office Small Office Home Office Sound on Sound Share of Voice Static Random Access Memory Satellite Television Asian Region

T TAM TIFF TSR TWAIN

Television Audience Measurement Tagged Interface File Format Terminate and Stay Resident Toolkit Without An Interesting Name

U ULP UMTS URL USENET

Unfair Labour Practices Universal Mobile Telephone System Uniform Resource Locator User Network

V VERONICA VOPAN VSNL VSOP VXML

Very Easy Rodent Oriented Netwide Index of Computer Archives Voice Pitch Analysis Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited Very Special Old Pale Voice Extensible Markup Language

W WAIS

Wide Area Information Servers

WAP WML WPP

Wireless Application Protocol Wireless Markup Language Wire and Plastic Products

X XFRML XML XUL

XML based Financial Reporting Markup Language eXtensible Markup Language eXtensible UserInterface Language

Y YAHOO YUPPIE

Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle Young Urban Professional

Z ZAW ZEN ZEN ZIP

Zero Administration for Windows Zero Effort Networking Zero Engine Noise Zone Improvement Plan

Company CEO/Chairman ADAE Anil Ambani

Bharat Petroleum Ashok Sinha

Air Deccan GR Gopinath

Bharti Enterprises Sunil Mittal Biocon Kiran Mazumdar Shaw

Apollo Tyres Neeraj Kanwar Ashok Leyland R Seshasayee Asian Paints Ashwin Dani AV Birla Group Kumar Mangalam Birla AZB Partners Zia Mody Bajaj Auto Rahul Bajaj Bank of Baroda MD Mallya Bharat Forge BN Kalyani

Birla Corp RS Lodha Bombay Dyeing Jeh & Ness Wadia Britannia Vinita Bali BSNL AK Sinha Cadbury India Bharat Puri Cipla YK Hamied Cromptom Greaves Gautam Thapar

Dabur VC Burman

Kotak Mahindra Bank Uday Kotak

Dr. Reddy's Labs K Anji Reddy (Chairman)

Larsen & Toubro AM Naik

Dr. Reddy's Labs GV Prasad (CEO)

Mahindra & Mahindra Keshub Mahindra, Anand Mahindra

EID Parry SM Datta Essar Group Shashi Ruia GAIL UD Choubey Godrej Group Adi Godrej Gujarat Ambuja Cement NS Sekhsaria, Suresh Neotia HCL Technologies Shiv Nadar (Chairman), Vineet Nayar (CEO) HDFC Deepak Parekh Hero Group Brij Mohal Lall Munjal Hinduja Group SP Hinduja Hindustan Petroleum Arun Balakrishnan HSBC India Naina Lal Kidwai Hyundai India BVR Subbu ICICI Bank Chanda Kochar ICICI Prudential Shikha Sharma ICICI Ventures Renuka Ramnath

Maruti Udyog RC Bhargava Microsoft India Ravi Venkatesan Motorola India FV Vandrewala Nicholas Piramal Ajay Piramal Nirma Karsanbhai Patel ONGC R.S. Sharma Pantaloon Retail Kishore Biyani Pepsi Co. Rajeev Bakshi Ranbaxy Malvinder Singh Mohan Raymond Gautam Singhania Reliance Industries Mukesh Ambani Reserve Bank of India Subbarao RPG Group Harsh Goenka SAIL SK Roongta Satyam Computers Kiran Karnik(Chairman), A.S. Murthy (CEO)

Infosys Technologies Nandan Nilekani * Narayan Murthy (co founder and chairman), Kris GopalKrishnan (CEO)

SEBI Bhave

IOC Sarthak Behuria Ispat Industries VK Mittal

Standard Chartered Jaspal Bindra

ITC Yogesh C Deveshwar

State Bank of India OP Bhatt

Jet Airways Naresh Goyal

Tata Group Ratan Tata

Shoppers' Stop BS Nagesh

Star TV India Peter Mukerjea

Tata Steel B Muthuraman TCS S Ramadorai UB Group Vijay Mallya Videocon Industries Venugopal Dhoot Wipro Azim Premji (Chairman), Girish Paranjpe & Suresh Vaswani (joint CEOs) Yes Bank Rana Kapoor Zee Telefilms Subhash Chandra Hindalco Industries Kumar Mangalam Birla NTPC R.S. Sharma Oracle Financial Services Software (i-flex) Rajesh Hukku Spicejet Sanjay Aggarwal

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21 Michael O'Leary (Ryanair Holdings) 22 Franck Ribould (Groupe Danone) 23 Peter Rose (Expeditor International) 24 Steven Roth (Vornado Realty) 25 James Schiro (Zurich Financial) 26 Bob Simpson (XTO Energy) 27 James Sinegal (Costco Wholesale) 28 Fred Smith (FedEx) 29 Ratan Tata (Tata Steel) 30 Jong-Yong Yun (Samsung Electronics) 31. Dinesh Aggarwal (IndiaMArt Limited)