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Keen to attract investment to India, Modi would be meeting as many as 11 top corporate honchos over breakfast tomorrow.
They include Google Executive Chairman Eric E Schmidt, Carlyle Group, Co-Founder and Co-CEO David M Rubenstein, Cargill President and CEO David W MacLennan, Merck & Co CEO Kenneth C Frazier Hospira Chairman John C Staley Citigroup CEO Michael L Corbat, Caterpillar Chairman and CEO Dough Oberhelman, MasterCard President and CEO Ajay Banga, Pepsico Chairman and CEO Indra Nooyi.
The Prime Minister would also be having one-on-one meetings with six other senior executives. Besides Goldman Sachs Chairman and CEO Lloyd C Blankfein, Modi would be meeting Boeing Chairman and CEO W James McNerney Jr, BlackRock Chairman and CEO Laurence D Fink, IBM Chairman and CEO Ginni Rometty, General Electric Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt, among others.
He will participate in a business meet, to be organised by USIBC, that is expected to be attended by 300-400 businessmen in Washington on September 30.
In his address at the 69th session of the UN General Assembly, Modi yesterday called for a more stable and inclusive growth and stressed that it require a genuine international partnership.
