Tycoons 2009

4. A grueling Multi-stage selection process to determine India’s future Leaders What separates from the rest? A Tycoon

8. Will be even grander… Tycoons goes on TV for the first time. The whole national final including the leadership summit to be made into episodes which will be shown on Zee News & Zee Business

9. The TYCOONS story…

10. Tycoons as a national level event started in … 2008 More than 2 lakh participants from 100 cities across India

11. Launch Ad TOI Full page, 9 th Jan, 2008 TYCOONS 2008

12. Website

13. College Round 100 cities Jan-Feb

14. City Final Jan-Feb

15. Regional Final Jan-Feb

16. Grand Finale- Top 48 Arrive Delhi, 8 th March

17. Grand Finale- Himalayan Outbound 9-11 th March

18. Leadership Summit

19. Some of the esteemed guest speakers last year Col. R V S Rathore Madhu Goud Yaskhi Lt Gen (Retd.) SS Mehta Tarun Tejpal Sandeep Pandey

20. Venue: Royal Ballroom, Hotel Shangrila, New Delhi Grand Finale- Graduation Dinner, 13th March, 2008

21. Prizes at stake

22. And the winners are… Nishith Rastogi, BITS-Goa Abhishek Humbad, BITS Pilani Zoya Mehani, Dehradun 1 2 3

23. Prizes for everyone…

24. Tycoons Press coverage

25. Editorial coverage in Outlook magazine

26. Winners from Tycoons 2008 Nishith Rastogi who stood first is a student of BITS, Goa campus. Nishith is a budding entrepreneur and is fascinated with business start-ups! He is also a keen learner of ‘computational linguistics’ and has been working on many projects on the same.

27. The first runner-up Abhishek Humbad is an engineering student at BITS, Pilani. Abhishek, while still pursuing his studies, is the founder of an environment and energy consultancy firm specializing in carbon credits in rural India. His exact designation- CEO of NextGen PMS! ( http://nextgenpms.com) Winners from Tycoons 2008

28. Zoya Mehani , the 2 nd runner-up is from Dehradun Institute of Technology. Zoya draws inspiration from none other than Spiderman! An active member of the rotary club, Zoya has been part of many social upliftment projects. She is also a dance enthusiast and has participated in competitions for various dance forms. Winners from Tycoons 2008

30. The most important lesson I learnt, at the risk of sounding clichéd, is that nothing is impossible . But really, there are a whole lot of things, seemingly impossible, that one can do. Like jumping off a 25-ft high cliff when you don’t have a head for heights or a parachute - Can be done. Have your own start-up while you are still recovering from teenage and getting accustomed to the rude shock adulthood is – Totally possible. I met people my age who have already accomplished so much that I half expected them to be extra terrestrial beings. These people were so much like me. It was eerie and motivating. It sure did leave me all windswept and interesting. I developed a whole new perspective towards myself and life . I do realize that there is an untapped potential hibernating in each one of us. It is up to us to rouse it to consciousness and achieve a lot of what we dream about. ZOYA

31. Apart from acting as the torch bearers of the TYCOONS we have been engaged with all the participants like: CL has been offering these participants mentoring support for their dream careers like an MBA from the premier B-Schools of India CL will sponsor the PG courses for the top 3 winners anywhere in India Many finalists have been in touch with Tycoons team and CL’s leadership team about mentoring and guidance on their career ambitions and ideas The 2008 winners will be invited to interact and share their experiences with the 2009 national finalists Abhishek was a speaker at The Entrepreneurship Week – ‘E Week’ with the theme “Go Green! The World is our Business” initiated by the non-profit organisation NEN in which Career Launcher’s B-school IWSB was a partner The engagement with Tycoons participants