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Global Honour for SA Indians in New York
Global Honour for SA Indians in New York
Date: 2012-09-26
Mr Pillay, chief executive officer of Garuda Finance (Pty) Limited, a member of Johannesburg Stock Exchange based in Sandton, was one of three South Africans and several other top business leaders who were given this rare recognition during the Global Indian Business Meet taking place at the Marriot Marquis Hotel in the heart of Manhattan's landmark Time Square.
The other two recipients were Atul Gupta, head of Sahara Computers and owner of The New Age newspaper, and community award recipient sociologist turned business partner, Dr Dasarath Chetty, who heads the SA edition of the New Global Indian magazine.
The four-day GIBM inaugural conference is featuring some of the most high profile business and thought leaders of the Indian Diaspora and world brand icons among the 52 speakers scheduled to speak until Sunday.
India's President Pranab Mukherjee inaugurated the conference with a powerful message via a video link in India on Friday morning.
The GIBM will cover a whole range of issues, including international finance, banking, cross border joint ventures and partnerships, social entrepreneurship and the harnessing of the best Indian minds in business and thought leadership to fight the scare of the global recession and also to begin to co-ordinate the efforts of Indians located in hundreds of countries. The United States accounts for 3, 5 million Non-Resident Indians.
Under the theme "Managing Business in Challenging Times, the conference was organized by the New York-based chapter of the New Global Indian Foundation, with senior diplomats from the Indian, Mauritian, Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana foreign missions based in New York attending two pre-conference welcome banquets that included a 10-member South African delegation.
Umhlanga businessman Rajen Pillay, and his wife, property consultant Jasodha Pillay, with the Consul-General Ramgoolam of Trinidad and Tobogo in New York.