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Global Emerging PowerLeaders 2026

World’s Best Indians

Global Emerging PowerLeaders 2026 – World's Best Indians is a WCRC Leaders recognition of Indian-origin founders, chief executives and senior leaders building businesses of global consequence, from India and from the countries they have made home. Leaders are assessed on the scale and difficulty of what they have built, the strategic importance of their sector, their leadership record and their stated plans for the next five years. Profiles draw on a structured leadership questionnaire completed by each honouree, company disclosures and public sources.

The honourees

Recognised in the 2026 cycle

Ashish Nanda, Founder & Managing Director of ACRYO: The Founder Building the Helium Supply Chain Australia Forgot It Needed

Ashish Nanda, Founder & Managing Director of ACRYO, left an executive career in India to start again in Australia. His bet was that a country full of MRI scanners, laboratories and quantum labs would eventually want a supplier who treats helium the way a utility treats water.

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Raj Sandhan, CEO & Founder of Metro Health & Beauty Limited: The Pharmacist Who Rewrote What a Distributor Is For

Raj Sandhan, CEO & Founder of Metro Health & Beauty Limited, spent a decade behind London pharmacy counters before deciding the brands he stocked deserved a better route into Britain. Nineteen years on, MHBL has put Mustela, Filorga, Uriage and Rausch on UK shelves, and he still refuses to just move boxes.

By WCRC Leaders Editorial Desk

Dr Nayana Sivaraj, Founder of Vanaura Organics: The Ayurvedic Physician Who Took 'Natural' Back to the Clinic

Dr Nayana Sivaraj, Founder of Vanaura Organics, is an Ayurvedic physician who started researching her own formulations after watching patients react to products sold as natural. The brand she co-founded in Ernakulam now sells in India, the United States and Singapore, and holds WCRC's World's Best Indian Brand 2026 in Ayurveda-inspired advanced organic skincare.

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Global Emerging PowerLeaders 2026

Recognised in the 2026 cycle

Ashish Nanda, Founder & Managing Director of ACRYO: The Founder Building the Helium Supply Chain Australia Forgot It Needed

Raj Sandhan, CEO & Founder of Metro Health & Beauty Limited: The Pharmacist Who Rewrote What a Distributor Is For

Dr Nayana Sivaraj, Founder of Vanaura Organics: The Ayurvedic Physician Who Took 'Natural' Back to the Clinic