The article featured six Indian Americans who are among the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business’s inaugural list of “100 Influential Leaders”. Kaushal Dugar, who graduated from the SMU Lee Kong Chian School of Business, is credited with re-purposing the 200-year-old Indian tea industry and leveraging technology and supply chains to build India’s first billion-dollar tea company. He is the founder of Teabox, a company which ships teas directly from producer to consumer. Apart from being the co-founder of the non-profit organisation, Books to Read, which aims to help young children in developing nations gain access to books with the goal of improving literacy, he is also a founding member of Sandbox Network, a global community of young achievers and innovators.