Such Gup

Such Gup

Impressive line-up


The Donald really laid it on for the Indian Premier on his recent visit to Uncle Sam. Take just one example. On June 25, there was a roundtable with US business leaders in Washington DC, and the line-up was drop dead impressive:

  1. Shantanu Narayan, Chairman, President &
    CEO, Adobe.

  2. Jeff Bezos, Founder & CEO, Amazon.

  3. Jim Taielet, Chairman, President & CEO, American Tower Corp.

  4. Tim Cook, CEO, Apple.

  5. Jim Umpleby, CEO, Caterpillar.

  6. John Chambers, Exec Chairman, Cisco.

  7. Punit Renjen, Global CEO, Deloitte.

  8. David Farr, Chairman & CEO, Emerson.

  9. Mark Weinberger, CEO, Ernst & Young.

  10. Sundar Pichai, CEO, Google.

  11. Alex Gorsky, Chairman & CEO, Johnson & Johnson.

  12. Jamie Dimon, CEO, JP Morgan Chase & Co.

  13. Marillyn Hewson, Chairman, President & CEO, Lockheed Martin.

  14. Arne Sorenson, President & CEO, Marriott International.

  15. Ajay Banga, President & CEO, Mastercard.

  16. Irene Rosenfeld, Chairman & CEO, Mondelez International.

  17. David Rubenstein, Co-founder & Co-CEO, The Carlyle Group.

  18. Doug McMillon, President & CEO, Walmart.

  19. Charles Kaye, Co-CEO, Warburg Pincus.

  20. Daniel Yergin, Vice Chairman, IHS Markit.

  21. Mukesh Aghi, President, USIBC.


Need we say more?

God knows!


The late lamented Big Ben’s Hubby has let it be known that he has nothing to do with RM 007’s testimony to the JIT, indicting The Man of Steel. According to Hubby, he has actually tried to prevent RM from going the whole hog, but the latter is determined “to do his bit”. RM, on the other hand, says he has a wink and a nod from “The Boss”. God knows!