Anil Manibhai Naik joined L&T in 1965 as a junior engineer, became chief executive in 1999, chairman in 2003, group chairman in 2017 and chairman emeritus in 2023, handing over the reins to SN Subrahmanyan in September last year. "I am proud that we got a Rs 25,000-crore single order from Saudi Aramco, the world's largest oil producer, to build a refinery in their country," says Naik, recipient of the Economic Times Award for Lifetime Achievement.