Best Innovator

Rahul Wahi

  • Created top 100 fastest growing digital marketing agencies
  • Invented a proprietary digital marketing platform  that is used today by all major search engines 
  • Created 4 scholarship for marketing students at local institution that paid for last year of dues and full time job offer at LLT Group http://www.onlyoswego.com/2015/08/18/83064/ohs-grad-leading-fast-growing-digital-media-company  
  • http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/naperville-sun/news/ct-nvs-naperville-new-businesses-st-1206-20151204-story.html  
  •  https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/llt-group-selected-top-chicago-digital-marketing-il-rahul-wahi?articleId=7895839752348135021   

Dr. Anil Oroskar

  • Founder of Orochem Technologies with facilities in Naperville and Mumbai
  • Professor of ChemE at UIC, founded Innovation Center
  • Patented Technologies in petroleum industry, food industry
  • Omega-3; Krill Oil; Steviol Glycosides, Chiral Drug Molecules.
  • More than 80 US Patents
  • Awarded for various technologies implemented in chemical industry
  • Omega-3 Nutraceutical Product development worldwide
  • Stevia product as natural high-intensity sweetener for diabetic population

Gordhan Patel

  • Founder of Lipocine Inc. A biotech company.
  • First to Introduce oral testosterone capsule
  • First to introduce oral Progesterone Capsules for preterm childbirth. This drug can help millions of women who have problem to carry the baby for full 9 month term. Globally this can save billions of dollars for medical cost and millions of life.
  • Help manufacture the Printed Circuit Boards which drove first google car. The same designs has been used by Mercedes and BMW for their collision avoidance module. We have help design Northrop Grumman to design the circuit board used in our latest fighter jet F35- Our board controls plane's radar system.

Vijay Gupta

  • SAP based industry solutions
  • Development of URfoodsupply.com for ethnic community
  • Bridge between universities and corporations
  • Check out at www.URFoodsupply.com

Sanjay Shah

  • Founder, CEO & Chief Architect Vistex a $300M Company
  • Developed Vistex Contract and Revenue Management solution and build Vistex from zero to $300M
  • Recently bought a Penthouse in Trump Tower in Chicago for $17M and was in news all over the places

Harsh Garg & Ankita Garg

  • We have designed a vacuum insulated bottle in 2016. The bottle has total 15 features and it is world's only modular design bottle. It is only bottle in the market in which you can carry 2 drinks simultaneously in any temperature combination.
  • We have launched our product on crowdfunding websites like Kickstarter and Indiegogo and raised around $500 thousand.
  • We have received tremendous interest for our product across the globe and have established a distributor network of more than 15 distributors.
  • We were also nominated for the Chicago Innovation Awards this year.
  • "Please visit our website www.mygolchi.com for more details on our product. We have had tremendous media coverage from leading newspapers like Chicago Tribune, Tech Insider, Mail Online, etc. Our facebook page facebook.com/MyGolchi has links to all the media articles.
  • Link to our picture with the product: https://www.dropbox.com/s/m4w6113quiwe7f2/DSC_4774.JPG?dl=0

    Link to our Media Kit for more details on our product: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/6kctvqfrquo4gl8/AABlKOacifCTlEvXb7rnj5KXa?dl=0 

Sakthivel Sadayappan 

  • I reminisce. I was born poor, in a hut. I somehow managed my schooling. Being the only son, my parents labored, toiled hard, and sometimes starved to educate me.
  • I finished my Bachelors degree in 1987. Thinking that it is the end of my education, I went for employment. Though this did not offer creature comforts, I was able to learn what life is all about.
  • After two years I wished to continue my Masters degree.
  • I came first both at the college level and at the university level. I got trained to do research in an all India level. My parents were gripped by poverty, and the government provided meager funds, but somehow I managed to get a Doctorate in Biochemistry in 1998.
  • Today as a professor and the director of heart research at University of Cincinnati I think of those days, the days when I was eagerly awaiting help, the days when all I had was water to appease my hunger, the days when I had to stay on platforms whenever I went for interviews in other cities. And the days when I had to stay alone in the hostel because I could not afford to go home and watch other students return to their home and families.  Now, I am continuing my research at University of Cincinnati in Cincinnati, OH.
  • Success and money have not made me forget my past. I realize that there could be students aplenty out there looking for help as I was.  What is the fate of these poor children in my native land?
  • As a professor, I trained so many students, provide support both financially and educationally, and am a part of their success.
  • Heart disease is the #1 killer today. I discovered why South Asians highly prone to develop heart disease.