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Zubin Jamshed Irani, managing director (MD), Carrier Airconditioning and Refrigeration, India, has been listed by the reputed magazine Business Today, February 8, 2009 in its selection of "India’s Hottest Young Executives” for the year 2009. With only 25 names on the list, the magazine credits Irani with having "rebuilt a company that is growing over 20 percent on average in the last three years.”

Zubin Irani: top executive

Son of Dr Jamshed Jiji Irani, director, Tata Sons and former MD of Tata Steel, 37-year-old Zubin is an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA. After a stint with management consulting firm McKinsey and Company in the US, Europe and India, Zubin joined Carrier in 2005 as marketing and strategy head for the Asia-Pacific region in Singapore and then moved to India, writes the magazine.