Jeremy Stoppelman is an American Internet entrepreneur and executive best known as the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Yelp, a widely used local search and crowdsourced review platform. Born in Arlington, Virginia, Stoppelman developed an early interest in computer programming and business. He earned a bachelor's degree in computer engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 1999. After working briefly at @Home Network, he joined X.com as an engineer before the company renamed itself PayPal. Stoppelman rapidly rose through the ranks at PayPal to become Vice President of Engineering, establishing himself as a key member of the executive group known as the PayPal Mafia. Following PayPal's acquisition by eBay in 2002 for $1.5 billion, Stoppelman left the company to attend Harvard Business School. In 2004, during a summer internship at MRL Ventures—an incubator started by former PayPal colleague Max Levchin—Stoppelman partnered with engineer Russel Simmons to co-found Yelp. Starting as an email-based recommendation network, Yelp quickly pivoted into a public review platform that transformed how local businesses connect with consumers. As CEO, Stoppelman led the company through significant growth, rejecting major acquisition bids from tech leaders such as Google and taking Yelp public on the New York Stock Exchange in 2012. Beyond managing Yelp's global operations, Stoppelman has emerged as a prominent voice on digital antitrust issues and technology policy in Silicon Valley.

Maulana Abul Kalam Azad was an eminent Indian independence activist, Islamic theologian, writer, and a senior leader of the Indian National Congress. Born in Mecca in 1888, Azad relocated to Calcutta with his family in his youth. He quickly established himself as a prominent journalist, launching the Urdu weekly newspaper Al-Hilal in 1912, which criticized British policies and urged Hindu-Muslim unity. Azad became a key figure in the Khilafat Movement and worked closely with Mahatma Gandhi. He embraced the principles of non-violent civil disobedience and spearheaded various protests against British rule, leading to multiple imprisonments. In 1923, at the age of 35, he became the youngest person to serve as the President of the Indian National Congress, a position he held again during the critical years of World War II from 1940 to 1946. Azad staunchly opposed the partition of India on communal lines, advocating instead for a unified secular nation. Following India's independence in 1947, he was appointed as the nation's first Minister of Education. In this role, he shaped the country's educational framework, overseeing the establishment of the Indian Institutes of Technology, the University Grants Commission, and several cultural academies. His birthday, November 11, is celebrated annually as National Education Day in India. Azad was posthumously awarded the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honor, in 1992.

Kapil Sibal is a highly distinguished Indian politician, senior advocate, and former administrator who has played a pivotal role in shaping India's legal and political landscape. Born in Jalandhar, Punjab, Sibal completed his education at St. Stephen's College, Delhi, and later earned an LL.M. from Harvard Law School. He joined the Bar in 1973 and was designated as a Senior Advocate in 1983, establishing a formidable reputation in constitutional, corporate, and civil law. Over his illustrious legal career, Sibal has argued several landmark cases in the Supreme Court of India. Beyond law, he has had a prominent career in public service. As a member of the Indian National Congress, he held several high-profile ministerial portfolios in the United Progressive Alliance government, including the Ministry of Science and Technology, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, and Ministry of Law and Justice. In 2022, Sibal resigned from the Congress party and was subsequently re-elected to the Rajya Sabha as an independent candidate supported by the Samajwadi Party. He also served as the President of the Supreme Court Bar Association multiple times, most recently elected to the post in 2024. He remains one of India's most influential voices on constitutional rights and legal reforms.

Jay Amitbhai Shah (born 22 September 1988)[2] is an Indian cricket administrator and businessman, and the Chairman of the International Cricket Council (ICC) since December 2024. He was the President of the Asian Cricket Council, establishing himself as one of the most influential figures in global cricket governance. He is the son of Amit Shah, India's Minister of Home Affairs. He is the third Indian to become chairman of the International Cricket Council, after N. Srinivasan and Shashank Manohar.

Born in Kolhapur, Maharashtra, Sonal Shah was educated at Princess Padmaraje Girls Highschool. She has a close connection to her roots and often actively participates in social and cultural events.Family: She married Amit Shah in 1987 in an arranged marriage

Rishita Patel is the wife of Jay Shah, the Secretary of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and Chairman of the International Cricket Council (ICC)

Nara Chandrababu Naidu is a prominent Indian politician currently serving as the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, a position he previously held from 1995 to 2004 and again from 2014 to 2019. As the long-standing president of the Telugu Desam Party, Naidu is widely recognized for his visionary leadership and instrumental role in transforming Hyderabad into a global information technology hub, earning him nicknames like the IT King of India. Born in Naravari Palle in Chittoor district, Naidu began his political career with the Indian National Congress in the mid-1970s before joining the TDP, founded by his father-in-law, the legendary actor-politician N. T. Rama Rao. Throughout his career, Naidu pioneered market-driven reforms, e-governance, and public-private partnerships in Andhra Pradesh. He modernised infrastructure, facilitated major foreign investments, and conceptualised Amaravati as a world-class greenfield capital city. After a major electoral setback in 2019, Naidu orchestrated a dramatic political comeback in the 2024 assembly elections. Leading a formidable alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Jana Sena Party, he secured a landslide victory to assume office as Chief Minister for a fourth term, cementing his status as a key kingmaker in Indian national politics.

Vallabhbhai Jhaverbhai Patel commonly known as Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel,[a] was a Gandhian Indian independence activist, lawyer and statesman who served as the first Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister of India from 1947 to 1950. He was a senior leader of the Indian National Congress, who played a significant role in the Indian independence movement and India's political integration.In India and elsewhere, he was often called Sardar meaning "chief". He acted as the Home Minister during the political integration of India and the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947.

Robert Mercer is an American computer scientist and hedge fund manager who played a pivotal role in both the development of quantitative trading and the modern conservative political movement. Born in 1946, Mercer earned his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He began his career at IBM Research in 1972, where he made groundbreaking contributions to computational linguistics and statistical machine translation, laying the groundwork for modern language translation technologies. In 1993, Mercer was recruited by Renaissance Technologies, a quantitative hedge fund founded by Jim Simons. At Renaissance, Mercer used his mathematical expertise to develop algorithms for the highly profitable Medallion Fund. He was appointed co-CEO of the firm in 2009 alongside Peter Brown, overseeing immense financial growth. Beyond finance, Mercer became a prominent and influential donor to conservative political causes in the United States. He and his family, particularly his daughter Rebekah, funded numerous entities, including the data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica, the right-wing media outlet Breitbart News, and various political action committees supporting Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign. Following intense public scrutiny regarding his political activism, Mercer stepped down from his position as co-CEO of Renaissance Technologies in 2017.