The top 10 businessmen in Kolkata have not only helped the city's economy thrive but have also emerged as role models for aspiring business people. Their success stories inspire the following generation of business executives because of their tenacity, creativity, and dedication to excellence, which have permanently altered Kolkata's business scene.

1. Harsh Neotia:  A well-known name in the real estate sector, Harsh Neotia is the Chairman of Ambuja Neotia Group, a leading real estate development company. He has played a crucial role in transforming Kolkata's skyline and contributing to the city's infrastructural development. Many properties have been created by the Ambuja Neotia Group all over India. The Union government designated "Udayan," Harshavardhana Neotia's first project, as a "Model Housing Project." He is also credited with developing Kolkata's modern Public-Private Partnership (PPP) housing system. He sits on the IIM Calcutta Board of Governors. His company, Ambuja Neotia Group, has created some cutting-edge real estate projects in West Bengal, including Raichak on the Ganges, AltAir Boutique Hotel, Ecospace Business Park, Taj City Centre Kolkata, Taj Chia Kutir, Raajkutir IHCL SeleQtions, and Udayan The Condoville.

2. Purnendu Chatterjee:  Over the past ten years, the chairman of The Chatterjee Group (TCG) has overseen a private equity fund that has spent more than $3.5 billion in India alone. This man has been a trailblazer with diverse global business interests and is listed within the top 10 business men in Kolkata, including petrochemicals, life sciences, information technology, real estate, and entertainment. A graduate of IIT Kharagpur and the University of California, Berkeley, he joined McKinsey in 1976 and was made a partner at the age of 34. At one point, George Soros, the billionaire investor, served as his mentor. He is highly known in India for being one of the founders of the Indian School, the largest private shareholder of Haldia Petrochemicals, and a member of the team that acquired the world leader in petrochemicals, Basell, in 2005.

3. Rajesh Kewat:  A leading young and enthusiastic entrepreneur who started his journey with a constructive vision to make the legal path easy and accessible for the country's common people, where legal obligations take an unexpected turn for many citizens. He was an RTI activist earlier and helped many people exercise their fundamental rights. Later in 2019, he launched FastInfo Legal Services Pvt. Ltd. with the same vision to pave a path of legal assistance, and his most notable venture in name and style is FastInfo Class. Mr Kewat was rewarded with the Businessman of the Year award in 2022.

4. S.K. Birla:  Sudarshan Kumar Birla, a scion of the renowned Birla family, has made significant contributions to Kolkata's business landscape. His leadership in the cement and jute industries, as the chairman of the B.K. Birla Group has been instrumental in the region's industrial growth. Sudarshan Kumar Birla or S. K. Birla (born 1934) is an Industrialist, and a senior member of Birla family. He heads the S. K. Birla group, which once consisted of several companies like DIGJAM, Digvijay Woolen Mills, Mysore Cement, Birla Eastern, Nabin Industries, Xpro India.
 

5. Prasoon Mukherjee:  The Chairman of Universal Success Enterprises Limited, who is domiciled in Singapore, has recently made sizable investments in India. Chief Ministers of states from Gujarat to West Bengal have laid up the red carpet for him because of his interests in ports, power, tourism, hospitality, townships, and industrial parks. His company is worth more than Rs. 5,000 crore ($1 billion), and his favorite project is the 377-acre township being built in Howrah, India, called Kolkata West International City. He just established a motorcycle manufacturing facility in Eastern India with TVS.

6. H.P. Goenka:  H.P. Goenka, along with his partner R.S. Agarwal, co-founded the Emami Group, a major player in the FMCG sector. The group's well-known brands like Boroplus and Navratna have gained widespread popularity in India and beyond. H.P. Goenka's commitment to quality and innovation has been instrumental in the group's success.

7. Aveek Sarkar:  Owner of two newspapers, nine magazines, including Fortune India, four TV channels (ABP News, ABP Majha, ABP Ananda, and Sananda TV), two publishing companies, including Penguin India, as well as a mobile and internet company, is the chairman of the ABP Group. His private art collection, valued at more than Rs. 2,500 crore (US $500 million), is occasionally the topic of coffee-house addas in Calcutta. His daughter Chiki Sarkar and son Aritra Sarkar have young careers with ABP Group and Penguin India, respectively.

8. Kaustav Ray:  The chairman of the RP Group has ventured into the media, agro-foods, sports, ceramics, and IT industries. The group's principal business, "RP Infosystems," creates computers under the "Chirag" brand, which, according to Dataquest, is the third-largest computer brand in India with a total market value of Rs. 2,000 crores (US$400 million). He also contributes to two soccer teams, one in Kerala and the other in West Bengal.

9. Satya Prasad Roy Burman:   The Khadims Group chairman, a significant leader in the Indian leather industry. In addition to its own leather manufacturing facilities in Eastern India, the Company operates almost 700 retail stores nationwide (including 256 in West Bengal alone). The Company has just entered the restaurant, jewellery, and department store industries; the combined value of these businesses is around Rs. 2,000 crore (US$400 million), and he is again listed in the top 10 businessmen in Kolkata.

10. Asim Ghosh:  The CEO of Husky Energy is most likely the first CEO on this list who is not a promoter. From 1998 until 2009, Mr. Ghosh held the positions of MD and CEO of Hutchison Essar Ltd. before becoming the CEO of Husky Energy in Canada. With more than 63 million users, the Company grew under his direction from a single-city business to the second-largest mobile phone operator in the country. In 2007, he handled the sale of Hutchison Whampoa's ownership holdings to Vodafone in a transaction worth approximately $19 billion. The sale, in which Vodafone agreed to acquire Hutchison Whampoa's interest for $11.1 billion in cash, was at the time the largest corporate acquisition in India's history and, per a Thomson Reuters assessment, the largest all-cash transaction in history.