GE’s India head, Tejpreet S. Chopra picked up leadership skills early — from the boarding school
My dad doesn’t believe when I say it but seriously, I always wanted to come back. Because I feel one can make the biggest impact here and also the need to make the impact is here. It wasn’t easy for my wife, a lawyer with a great job in the US, but she gave the nod and we moved in 2005 to head the GECAS [GE Commercial Aviation Services] India. I remember those were crazy days. Tremendous growth where everybody was poaching everybody, pricing was out of whack and credit growth was going crazy.
(This story appears in the 25 September, 2009 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)