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Indra Nooyi
• Indra Krishnamurthy Nooyi (born 28 October 1955) is an India-born, American, business executive and the current Chairperson and Chief Executive Officer of PepsiCo, the second largest food and beverage business in the world by net revenue.
• She has consistently ranked among the World's 100 Most Powerful Women.
• In 2014, she was ranked 13 in the list of Forbes World's 100 most powerful women.
• Nooyi was born to a Tamil-speaking family in Chennai• She was educated at Holy Angels Anglo Indian Higher
Secondary School in Madras. • She received bachelors degrees in Physics, Chemistry and
Mathematics from Madras Christian College in 1974 and a Post Graduate Diploma in Management (MBA) from Indian Institute of Management Calcutta in 1976.
• Beginning her career in India, Nooyi held product manager positions at Johnson & Johnson and textile firm Mettur Beardsell.
• She was admitted to Yale School of Management in 1978 and earned a master's degree in Public and Private Management. While at Yale, she completed her summer internship with Booz Allen Hamilton.
• Nooyi joined the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), and then held strategy positions at Motorola and Asea Brown Boveri.
Nooyi joined PepsiCo in 1994 and was named president and CFO in 2001. In 2006 she became the CEO in PepsiCo's Salary $18.6 million (2014) = Rs 121 crore annum = Rs 11 crore per monthNet worth $144 million (December 2014) = Rs 936 crore
Naina Lal Kidwai
Naina Lal Kidwai,55, is presently the Group General Manager and Country Head of HSBC India.
Naina has a Bachelor's degree in Economics from Delhi university and an MBA from Harvard Business school. In fact, Kidwai was the first Indian woman to graduate from Harvard Business School.
She started her career with ANZ Grindlays . Presently, she is also serving as a non-executive director on the board of Nestle SA. Kidwai is also global advisor at Harvard Business school.
Indian government conferred Padma Shri award on Naina for her contributions in the field of Trade and Industry.
Chanda Kochar
• Current position: MD & CEO – ICICI Bank
• Chanda Kochar, 51, is currently the MD & CEO of india’s largest private bank ICICI Bank.• Chanda was born in Jodhpur, Rajasthan and raised in Jaipur, Rajasthan. She is an
alumnus of St. Angela Sophia School, Jaipur. She then moved to Mumbai, where she joined Jai Hind College for a Bachelor of Arts degree. After graduating in 1982 she then studied cost accountancy at ICWAI.
• Chanda got Masters Degree in Management Studies from Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai. She received the Wockhardt Gold Medal for Excellence in Management Studies as well as the J. N. Bose Gold Medal in Cost Accountancy.
• Chanda Kochhar is married to Deepak Kochhar, a wind energy entrepreneur and her Business schoolmate.
The Times Group, with its flagship company Bennett, Coleman and Company Limited (BCCL), is India’s largest media
The Times of India, World's largest English-language broadsheet daily in terms of circulationThe Economic Times, India's largest financial daily, and the world's second largest in terms of circulation after The Wall Street JournalMaharashtra Times, Marathi dailyNavbharat Times, Hindi Daily in Delhi and MumbaiSandhya Times, Hindi Daily Evening Tabloid in DelhiMumbai Mirror India's largest circulated compact newspaperKolkata MirrorAhmedabad MirrorPune MirrorBangalore Mirror, Bangalore's first morning compact dailyBrand Capital, Vijaya Karnataka, Kannada daily.ZigWheels, India's largest Automobile magazine.ET Wealth, India's largest Personal Finance compact weekly.
Indu Jain• Designation – Chairperson (former), Times Group
• Indu Jain,76, used to be the chairperson of India’s largest and most powerful media house – The Times Group.
• A strong votary of women’s rights and women entrepreneurship, Indu contributed immensely to the growth of Times group. Now, her two sons Samir and Vineet are running the company.
• Indu Jain is also founder President of the Ladies wing of FICCI (FLO).
• Indu is also the Chairperson of the Bharatiya Jnanpith Trust, which awards India's most prestigious and highest literary award, the Jnanpith award.
• She addressed the United Nations in 2000 at the Millennium World Peace Summit of Religious and Spiritual Leaders, a speech in which she stressed the need for oneness among faiths and went on to chair a special session of the conference.
Neelam Dhawan
• Current position: MD, HP-India• A woman with ‘never-say-die’ spirit, Neelam Dhawan is presently the Managing
Director of Hewlett-Packard (HP), India.• Neelam is an iconic figure in Indian IT industry . She is an inspiration for women
working in IT sector. She dared to enter the IT world in early 1980s when there were just a handful of women in this industry.
• At the start of her career she yearned to be a part of major players in the FMCG space such as Asian Paints and Hindustan Lever.
• Unfortunately, these organizations did not want a woman to be a part of their marketing and sales efforts and hence she was rejected at the time.
• But a determined Neelam refused to give up and fought back with laurels galore.• Before joining HP, India as Managing Director (MD) , Neelam was Managing
Director (MD) of Microsoft, India.• She had successful and rewarding stints with other leading players like IBM and
HCL.
Shikha Sharma
• Daughter of an officer in the Indian Army, Shikha was born on November 19, 1958.
• As her father was an army man, the Sharma family travelled all over the country and Shikha attended seven schools in as many cities before finishing her schooling from Loreto Convent in Delhi.
• She went on to do BA (Honours) in Economics from the Lady Shri Ram College for Women (LSR) in Delhi and MBA from IIM Ahmedabad. She also holds a post-graduate diploma in Software Technology from the National Centre for Software Technology in Mumbai.
• “Physics was her first choice for an undergraduate course but she settled for economics because the former was not offered by LSR. But she has no regrets as economics gave her enough opportunity to prove her formidable skills in maths — a subject very close to her heart.”
Shikha is married to Sanjaya Sharma, her batch-mate at IIM-A.
Sanjaya is the ex- Chief Executive Officer of Tata Interactive Systems.
The couple has two children, Tilak and Tvisha, Shikha has two younger brothers who are cardiologists.
Renu Sood Karnad
• MD, HDFC• Under her leadership, the company reported a
net profit of Rs 5,440 crore in FY14, up 12 per cent from the previous year. She is also among the highest paid women heads of a company with a compensation of Rs 7.16 crore during FY14.
Vinita Bali
• The rising prices of wheat, sugar and dairy products worry Vinita Bali, 54, Managing Director, Britannia Industries, as much as they do every housewife. They are all key inputs for Britannia's products.
While Britannia's revenues have more than doubled since she took over in 2005/06, from Rs 1,818 crore to Rs 4,246 crore in 2010/11, profit margins have been inconsistent. With food inflation persisting, the company has taken a number of cost control initiatives in the last four years, saving Rs 350 crore.
Britannia has also tried to differentiate itself by adopting health and nutrition platforms, creating brands like NutriChoice and removing trans fats from its biscuits. In a 30-year-long career, Bali has also worked with consumer goods majors like Voltas, Coca Cola and Cadbury India.
Leena Nair
Leena Nair
• Hindustan Unilever Ltd, or HUL, is back in Hewitt's list of best employers for the last two years. Nielsen, too, has adjudged it Employer Brand Number One. No one is happier than Leena Nair, 41, Executive Director and Vice President, Human Resources, South Asia, HUL.
