New team sponsors in 2011 included General Electric, Venezuelan state-owned oil and gas company PDVSA, Indian automaker Tata Motors and Mexican telecom giant Telmex.
Such growth doesn't just occur by itself, insists Kamath's B-school buddy Kishore Chaukar, who used to head ICICI's investment banking arm and now runs Tata Industries, a holding company for the Tata Group's investments in emerging sectors like telecom.
Transcripts of phone taps of a corporate lobbyist that led to the infamous telecom scam being exposed, also revealed embarrassing exchanges between Tata and the lobbyist.