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A handful of organisations wants more Arjundas is MD & CEO of Mahindra women in high places.
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Women are taking to the entrepreneurial world with gusto.
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Indian deal shops are not testosterone-charged boiler rooms.
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From being a minority in the workforce, women have come a long way. A
BT-Vital Voices round table found they still need support to be active
participants in economic growth.
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Our seventh listing of India's power businesswomen we also take a look at how corporate India is attempting to bring more women into positions that matter.
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Schauna Chauhan has been associated with the business since 1999 when she joined the company's board as a director at age 22.
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Zarin Daruwala started her career, in the late eighties, working
with eminent chartered accountant Y.H. Malegam, who later advised her to
join ICICI Ltd
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Ever since she stepped into the tough-as-nails advertising and media
industry in 1983, de Lynn de Souza has learnt to take on crises and competition -
and thrive.
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Tanya Dubash, Adi Godrej's eldest daughter and Executive Director & President, Marketing, for the group, handles its marketing initiatives and also heads the marketing council.
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Shyamala Gopinath has one of the toughest jobs going around - of managing the government's
burgeoning borrowings and also keeping an eye on the rupee.
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Vinita Gupta has almost singlehandedly shown the world how India can succeed in the market for branded drugs in the United States.
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It is a warm and welcome change when you enter Hindustan Unilever's new,
sprawling work campus spread over 7 lakh sq. ft. in Mumbai's western
suburbs. The catalyst for this change is Leena Nair.
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In July 2009, 44-year-old Kaku Nakhate, then Head of Global Markets,
left DSP Merrill Lynch after 19 years to join J.P. Morgan India.
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In a career that has spanned 20 years and taken her to the post of Vice Chairman and Head of
Investment banking at Credit Suisse India, Bhandarkar peeps into her
diary every Friday to see if that happens.
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In 2010, Manisha Girotra, CEO and Country Head of UBS, was back at what
she does best - playing a role in billion dollar cross-border
transactions.
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Sixty-two-year-old Lalita Gupte has seen it all - from the time she
joined as a trainee in the project appraisal department of ICICI in 1971
to being called onto the board of Alstom of France five months ago.
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Usha Narayanan is in charge of all matters relating to foreign institutional
investors, or FIIs, and the primary market.
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Akhila Srinivasan devotes roughly 80 per cent of her time to managing
Shriram Life Insurance, one of the companies in the Rs 40,000 crore
Shriram Group.
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Vinita Bali has more than doubled revenues at
Britannia Industries, the Bangalore-based biscuits-tobreads company,
from Rs 1,500 crore to Rs 3,800 crore.
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Chanda Kochhar takes customer feedback very seriously, and makes it a point to read every e-mail that comes in.
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Roopa Kudva high point for the year gone by was the acquisition of Chicago based
Pipal Research for $12.75 million, which will make CRISIL "a market
leader in analytical offshoring".
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Naina Lal Kidwai, Head of HSBC in India, was called to the board of
Swiss foods giant Nestl a few years ago; and in August she was elevated
to HSBC's Asia-Pacific board.
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Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw has been travelling across
Europe and Asia to meet customers and potential clients, all the while
finding new ways to grow her biotechnology business.
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Zarina Mehta has been pushing the envelope of creativity - some would argue that she
is also pushing the boundaries of decency - with radical programming.
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This writer waited for Zia Mody along with a young lady at her South
Mumbai office - she had come to be interviewed at Mody's law firm, AZB
& Partners. Half of those who work at AZB Partners are women.
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In 2009, Morparia claims, J.P. Morgan India ranked No. 1 on the investment banking league tables.
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Eighteen months ago, Vishakha Mulye was parachuted from ICICI's general
insurance subsidiary to take charge of the group's venture capital arm
when a mini crisis erupted after the abrupt exit of Renuka Ramnath.
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Swati Piramal, President of industry body Assocham, believes the
opinions communicated by the business chambers in India are often the
ones forwarded by the most active members.
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She isn't your regular corporate CEO - Meher Pudumjee, Chairperson of
Thermax Ltd, eschews management jargon, and does not think it is a big
deal to be "powerful."
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Chitra Ramkrishna, unarguably India's most powerful woman in the
lucrative exchanges space, shrugs off the competition as inevitable.
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It may be one of the oldest clichs in the book, but Madhabi Puri Buch "looks to make a difference in whatever I do.
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Seven days a week - Preetha Reddy works Sundays too.
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Is it lonely at the top? If you ask Axis Bank's chief Shikha Sharma this question, you are likely to get an honest answer.
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For Mallika Srinivasan, tractors are her passion, as is Tractors and
Farm Equipment, or TAFE, the company of which she is a director.
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As Managing Director of NDDB Dairy Services, which is based on the
National Dairy Plan, Sangeeta Talwar's mandate is to usher in the second
White Revolution by doubling the country's milk production to 200
million tonnes over the next 10 years.
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There is no power women waiting in the wings.
