CEO Genome Insights

India's Most Common CEO Archetype

What personality type dominates India's corporate leadership?

50 leaders · NSE Top 1000 · March 2025

Pragmatic: 445 CEOs (45%)

Visionary: 192 CEOs (19%)

Transformational: 178 CEOs (18%)

Transactional: 107 CEOs (11%)

Autocratic: 62 CEOs (6%)

Servant: 6 CEOs (1%)

Operational Excellence: 2 CEOs (0%)

#	CEO	Company	Archetype	Decision	Sector
1	Mukesh Dhirubhai Ambani	Reliance Industries	Visionary	Authority-Driven	Energy
2	Sashidhar Jagdishan	HDFC Bank	Pragmatic	Data-Driven	Financial Services
3	Gopal Vittal	Bharti Airtel	Transformational	Data-Driven	Communication Services
4	Challa Sreenivasulu Setty	SBI	Transactional	Consensus-Driven	Financial Services
5	K. Krithivasan	TCS	Pragmatic	Consensus-Driven	Technology
6	Sandeep Bakhshi	ICICI Bank	Pragmatic	Consensus-Driven	Financial Services
7	Rajeev Jain	Bajaj Finance	Visionary	Data-Driven	Financial Services
8	Salil Parekh	Infosys	Transformational	Data-Driven	Technology
9	S.N. Subrahmanyan	Larsen & Toubro	Pragmatic	Authority-Driven	Industrials
10	Rohit Jawa	Hind. Unilever	Servant	Consensus-Driven	Consumer Defensive
11	Siddhartha Mohanty	Life Insurance	Pragmatic	Consensus-Driven	Financial Services
12	Dilip Shanghvi	Sun Pharma.Inds.	Visionary	Intuition-Driven	Healthcare
13	Hisashi Takeuchi	Maruti Suzuki	Transactional	Data-Driven	Consumer Cyclical
14	Amitabh Chaudhry	Axis Bank	Transformational	Data-Driven	Financial Services
15	Anish Shah	M & M	Transformational	Data-Driven	Consumer Cyclical
16	Ashok Vaswani	Kotak Mah. Bank	Transformational	Data-Driven	Financial Services
17	Sanjiv Puri	ITC	Pragmatic	Consensus-Driven	Consumer Defensive
18	C K Venkataraman	Titan Company	Servant	Consensus-Driven	Consumer Cyclical
19	C. Vijayakumar	HCL Technologies	Transactional	Data-Driven	Technology
20	Gurdeep Singh	NTPC	Pragmatic	Authority-Driven	Utilities
21	Arun Kumar Singh	O N G C	Pragmatic	Consensus-Driven	Energy
22	K. C. Jhanwar	UltraTech Cem.	Pragmatic	Data-Driven	Basic Materials
23	Manoj Jain	Bharat Electron	Pragmatic	Consensus-Driven	Industrials
24	Karan Adani	Adani Ports	Visionary	Authority-Driven	Industrials
25	Sanjiv Bajaj	Bajaj Finserv	Transformational	Data-Driven	Financial Services
26	Jayant Acharya	JSW Steel	Pragmatic	Data-Driven	Basic Materials
27	Arun Misra	Vedanta	Transactional	Authority-Driven	Basic Materials
28	Ravindra Kumar Tyagi	Power Grid Corpn	Pragmatic	Consensus-Driven	Utilities
29	P. M. Prasad	Coal India	Pragmatic	Consensus-Driven	Energy
30	Anil Sardana	Adani Power	Visionary	Authority-Driven	Utilities
31	D. K. Sunil	Hind.Aeronautics	Pragmatic	Consensus-Driven	Industrials
32	Rajiv Bajaj	Bajaj Auto	Visionary	Intuition-Driven	Consumer Cyclical
33	Ignatius Navil Noronha	Avenue Super.	Pragmatic	Data-Driven	Consumer Defensive
34	Arun Misra	Hindustan Zinc	Transformational	Authority-Driven	Basic Materials
35	T. V. Narendran	Tata Steel	Pragmatic	Data-Driven	Basic Materials
36	Suresh Narayanan	Nestle India	Pragmatic	Data-Driven	Consumer Defensive
37	Rajesh Adani	Adani Enterp.	Autocratic	Authority-Driven	Energy
38	Arvinder Singh Sahney	I O C L	Transactional	Consensus-Driven	Energy
39	Deepinder Goyal	Eternal	Visionary	Intuition-Driven	Consumer Cyclical
40	Amit Syngle	Asian Paints	Pragmatic	Data-Driven	Basic Materials
41	Satish Pai	Hindalco Inds.	Pragmatic	Data-Driven	Basic Materials
42	Srini Pallia	Wipro	Transformational	Consensus-Driven	Technology
43	B. Govindarajan	Eicher Motors	Pragmatic	Data-Driven	Consumer Cyclical
44	Amit Jhingran	SBI Life Insuran	Transactional	Consensus-Driven	Financial Services
45	Y. S. Chakravarti	Shriram Finance	Visionary	Intuition-Driven	Financial Services
46	Harikrishna Agarwal	Grasim Inds	Pragmatic	Data-Driven	Basic Materials
47	Sudarshan Venu	TVS Motor Co.	Transformational	Intuition-Driven	Consumer Cyclical
48	Unsoo Kim	Hyundai Motor I	Transactional	Consensus-Driven	Consumer Cyclical
49	Dr. Murali K. Divi	Divi's Lab.	Visionary	Authority-Driven	Healthcare
50	Pieter Elbers	Interglobe Aviat	Transformational	Data-Driven	Industrials