Name: Rajat Gupta Age: 59 Born: Calcutta, India Homebase: Westport, Connecticut Former Managing Director McKinsey & Co., Goldman Sachs, United Nations Advisor to Secretary General, American-Indian Foundation.

Precis: The closest living non-related descendent of Andrew Carnegie, Rajat, Gupta, current independent director for Goldman Sachs, former managing director for McKinsey and Company, and Harvard MBA started some 8,000 miles east, graduating from Indian Institute of Technology only to go back as the bearer of change.

Work in Progress: Rajat Gupta seems to fly around the corporate world, doing everything from managing worldwide financial and business operations to sitting on the boards of the top business schools in the nation: Harvard, Wharton, Northwestern, but it is his philanthropic undertakings that have jetted him into the spotlight. As chairman of the Global Fund, he recently announced that the fund has raised 3 billion to fight the diseases that plague the third world. Gupta also raised nearly $11 billion dollars to fight AIDS/HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria in over 130 countries.