12 Indian-origin persons in top 100 dealmakers

As many as 12 Indian-origin persons have made it to a list of 100 dealmakers with Midas-touch prepared by the renowned business magazine, based on the value of the companies these people have taken public or sold in the past five years as well as the capital and involvement it took to get there.

The list has been topped by L. John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, whom Forbes has described as the "mentor and money man to founders of Google, Amazon, Intuit and Sun Microsystems." Mr Shriram, who currently runs venture capital firm Sherpalo and made a fortune by making early investment in Google, has moved up one position from his fourth rank last year. He has also invested in travel portal Cleartrip and internet-based photo service provider Xoom.in, in addition to online money management firm Mint.com.

11 other persons of Indian origin accompany Mr Shriram on the list, including Navin Chaddha (10th), an IIT graduate who heads India investments of Mayfield Fund, and well-known venture capitalist Vinod Khosla (70th). Mr Chaddha, ranked 58th in the previous year's list, has successfully managed deals like IL&FS Investsmart and India Infoline in financial services space and Provogue in fashion.

Others on the list are Aneel Bhusri (16th), Parag Saxena (31st), Arjun Gupta (51st), Rob L Soni (58th), Deepak Kamra (69th), Raman Khanna (74th), Ravi Adusumalli (77th), Shirish Sathaye (82nd) and Rob S Chandra (96th). Mr Bhusri was formerly vice-chairman at business software firm PeopleSoft and sold off stakes in start-ups like Data Domain, OutlookSoft and Polyserve.