The 19th Edition of Business Today's Most Powerful Women (MPW) event on March 29 in Mumbai will celebrate some of the finest women achievers in India. It will honour India's top women business leaders who shattered glass ceilings across different sectors
Union Minister Smriti Irani, HCL Technologies Chairperson Roshni Nadar Malhotra, Sugar Cosmetics Co-founder Vineeta Singh, Mamaearth co-founder Ghazal Alagh are among the key speakers at BT MPW event
Union Cabinet Minister for Women and Child Development; Minority Affairs, Smriti Irani will honour all the winners at the BT MPW event. She will also deliver an address on 'Woman power: Bringing in India’s Better Half' at the event
(As of March 2023)
HCL Technologies' Chairperson Roshni Nadar Malhotra is the only woman leading an Indian IT major. She's responsible for all strategic decisions for the $35.24 billion* tech company
Vineeta Singh, the co-founder and CEO of SUGAR Cosmetics turned down a lucrative job offer to become an entrepreneur. Singh, who is now a part of Shark Tank India, co-founded D2C beauty brand Sugar Cosmetics which has grown to be a successful brand with a valuation of over $500 million and a workforce comprising 75% women
Ghazal Alagh became an entrepreneur in 2016 when she couldn’t find toxin-free baby products for her son. She co-founded Mamaearth with her husband in 2016. The company initially launched six baby products. Two years on, it expanded into skincare and haircare, which today account for 80% of its sales. Mamaearth's parent company Honasa Consumer became the first unicorn of 2022
Arundhati, the Salesforce India Chairperson and CEO, is the only women chairperson of State Bank of India to date. She joined SBI as a 22-year-old and went on to become the SBI chairperson in 2013. She is remembered for the way she transitioned the 217-year-old state-owned lender into a digitalised enterprise
Masaba Gupta, Founder, House of Masaba, was only 19 when she launched her eponymous fashion label, House of Masaba, in 2009. She has also authored a book titled "Masaba Masaba," which is a memoir-cum-self-help book. Masaba made her acting debut with her mother Neena Gupta as they starred together in the Netflix series Masaba Masaba
Metropolis Healthcare MD Ameera Shah, Cricketer Mithali Raj, RBI MPC member Ashima Goyal, Film Maker & Actor Nandita Das, AZB & Partners co–founder & Managing Partner, Zia Mody, Piramal Group Vice-Chairperson Swati Piramal will be among other speakers at the BTMPW event
The MPW event will honour an eclectic mix of trailblazing women. This year, Nita Ambani of Reliance Foundation, Kaku Nakhate of Bank of America and Priya Nair of Unilever, who are seven-time winners, enter BT’s prestigious MPW Hall of Fame
This year, BTMPW list has nine new entrants, 31 repeat winners from last year, and seven comebacks from earlier years, including Securities and Exchange Board of India Chairperson Madhabi Puri Buch