How a small-town (Hailing from Rohtak,) boy Punit Renjen became Deloitte's top boss with a head count of 210,000 employees worldwide.
Renjen recalls he "landed in the United States with a scholarship, two pairs of jeans, and couple of hundred dollars in the pocket".
Renjen was packed off to Lawrence School in Sanawar, a premier boarding school in the hills of Himachal Pradesh, by his father, an immigrant from Pakistan who ran an auto component business.
Seven years later, life took a new turn for the teenaged Renjen. He was pulled out of school when his father faced bankruptcy. He got admission in a local school and worked as a dye operator in his father's company after school hours.
That went on for some years, till he won a Rotary Foundation scholarship to Williamette University in Oregon, USA.
He earned a master's degree in management there. Renjen recalls he "landed in the United States with a scholarship, two pairs of jeans, and couple of hundred dollars in the pocket".
In the late 1980s, Punit Renjen, then in his early twenties, had to go through 15 rounds of interviews before he was offered a $37,000-a-year job at Deloitte, the consulting and auditing company.
Twenty-eight years later, on June 1 this year Renjen, 53, will take charge as the global CEO of the Deloitte network of 47 member firms, operating in 150 countries, with a head count of 210,000 employees worldwide.
Under his stewardship, the US operations of Deloitte nearly doubled its business even during the recession years.
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