Mastercard CEO Ajay Banga, Cargill's President and CEO David WMacLennan, Caterpillar's Douglas Oberhelman, AES' AndresGluski, Merck's Kenneth Frazier, Co-founder and Co-CEO of Carlyle Group David Rubenstein, Hospira's Michael Ball ,Warburg Pincus' Charles Kaye and Pepsi Co's Indra Nooyi attended the breakfast meeting with PM Narendra Modi in New York today.

After the meeting, Banga said that the PM listed out areas like tourism, skill development and infrastructure as his key focus areas.   

The over one-hour-long breakfast meet was followed by one-on-one meetings with six CEOs of Boeing, KKR, BlackRock, IBM, General Electric and Goldman Sachs.

Nooyi described the meeting as "excellent". "He answers questions brilliantly and is very focused on improving India. So, we are thrilled to be working with him."   

Banga said the Prime Minister was a good listener and he believed that Modi can execute plans like the way he did in Gujarat. "I have every belief he can do that. I believe then you can have a very good decade or ahead of growth in India and that would make every American investor happy to put their capital, technology and their people into India," he said.   

Banga said one should worry less about the past and worry more about the future. "What matters is that his perspective is clear and if he is able to execute the way he has executed when he was the CM of Gujarat, I have every belief he can do that."