1. Most Powerful Women in Business
2012
These women have managed to think out
of the box and showed tremendous
leadership qualities. Some founded their
own companies, while some took up
prestigious roles in family owned business
and a few took up the executive ladder.
They all played an important role in India’s
economic crisis. Listed below are the
women, who really made a difference!

2. PREETHA REDDY
Managing Director at Apollo Hospitals, Preetha says
many hospitals in India have followed us on
accreditation from Joint Commission International, U.S.
"This has been immensely satisfying as a pioneering
step taken by Apollo is once again impacting the
standards of health care across India." Apollo Hospitals
today are one of the largest healthcare conglomerates
of India and she is one of the pioneer businesswomen
of India in the segment of healthcare industry.

3. KALPANA MORPARIA
Kalpana Morparia, CEO of JPMorgan India states that the biggest
turning point in her career was when she joined ICICI in 1975. That
led to the comprehensive transformation of an individual who, until
then, had no purpose to life and had to be pushed through school
and even college, be it her graduation or her training in law. The
ICICI job put her on the path to a corporate career. She was named
one of “The 50 Most Powerful Women in International Business” by
Fortune magazine in 2008 and one of the 25 most powerful women
in Indian business by Business Today, a leading Indian business
journal, in the years 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2008. Morparia was also
named one of the ‘The 100 Most Powerful Women’ by Forbes
Magazine in 2006. She also serves on the Board of Bennett,
Coleman & Company and CMC Limited.

4. ZIA MODY
Zia Mody, Managing Partner at AZB & Partners states, “For me, re-
calibrating myself from a counsel into an M&A (mergers and
acquisitions) lawyer was also a personal breakthrough. Many of the
team members who were with us when we started off together are
still with us. I did miss all the excitement of the courtroom in the
beginning. Winning a case in court is the biggest adrenalin boost
one can get." Business Today listed Mody as one of the 25 most
powerful business women in India several times since September
2004 through 2011. She is a recipient of the Financial Express
Knowledge Professional of the Year Award. She was also named one
of India's 100 Most Powerful CEOs by The Economic Times in 2004
and 2006. She is also the recipient of the Economic Times Awards
for Corporate Excellence as the Businesswoman of the Year, 2010.
The awards are given out every year and are seen as the foremost
authority in recognizing excellence in the Indian corporate market.

5. RENU SUD KARNAD
Renu is the Managing Director at HDFC. She feels her
biggest challenge was to grow HDFC while keeping its
culture intact. Karnad is responsible for
strategy, budget, product development and
distribution for the all-India lending operations. She
is a Law graduate of the University of Bombay and a
Post Graduate in Economics from Delhi University.

6. RITU KUMAR
Ritu Kumar the well known fashion designer in the industry
feels that balancing the preservation of India's traditional art
and fabrics with the effervescent desires of today's youth is
her biggest challenge. Ritu’s outfits have been patronized by
style icons such as late Princess Diana and Jemima Khan.
Kumar co-authored a book “Costumes and Textiles of Royal
India” published by Christies in 1999, which chronicles the
history of textiles and art design in India. Kumar has opened a
new flagship store in North America in The Mall at Oak Tree
in Edison, New Jersey.

7. DEBJANI GHOSH
Debjani Ghosh is Intel's South Asia Managing Director, Sales
and Marketing. She is a native of Delhi, has been with Intel
for 17 years. Her most recent role at the company was as
sales and marketing director for Southeast Asia. Her
biggest challenge was coming to terms with the fact that
the market is changing dramatically.

8. LEENA NAIR
Leena is at present the Executive Director, HR at Hindustan
Unilever. She would love to inspire a million women so they
can have it all. She has been on Business Today “most
powerful woman” list for 5 consecutive years. She has been
voted one of the 50 most influential women in India by Verve
magazine. She was awarded Young Woman Achiever of the
year 2008 in Business by FICCI (YFLO). She has also been
awarded the HR Achiever of the Year in 2009 by the World
HRD Congress. She has received 4 awards in 2010 as “HR
Professional of the Year” and was awarded “Seasoned HR
Professional for 2010” by NHRDN. In 2011, she has been
conferred as the 'HR Champion' by Hindustan Times and 'HR
Leader of the Year ' by STAR News Talent Leadership.

9. TANYA DUBASH
• Tanya Dubash is on the boards of several Godrej Group
companies including Godrej Consumer Products, Godrej
Industries, and Godrej Agrovet. As Executive Director &
President, Marketing she is also charged with enhancing
the value of the Godrej Brand and evolving the Group to
a more Brand driven organization. She is a graduate in
Economics & Political Science, Brown
University, USA, and an alumnus of the Harvard Business
School. She was recognized by the WEF as a YGL in 2008.
She is a Trustee of the Brown University and a member of
the Brown - India Advisory Council.

10. RENUKA RAMNATH
Renuka is the Founder of Multiples Alternate Asset
Management. Prior to founding Multiples, Renuka has
spent nearly two and a half decades in the Indian
financial sector. In the last decade, Renuka was
responsible for scaling ICICI Venture to one of the largest
PE funds in India by raising third party funds and
constructing a classical GP-LP relationship in an
institutional platform. Renuka holds a Bachelor of
Engineering and an MBA from the University of Mumbai.
She has completed the AMP from Harvard Business
School.

11. Arathi Krishna
Ms. Arathi Krishna has been Joint Managing Director of
Sundram Fasteners Ltd., since June 2010. Ms. Krishna
served as the Managing Director of Sundram Fasteners
Ltd., since May 3, 2006. She has been an Executive
Director of Sundram Fasteners since May 3, 2006. Ms.
Krishna is a Gold Medallist in Economics from Madras
University and holds an MBA from Michigan University.

12. VINITA BALI
Vinita is MD at Britannia Industries. She was Managing
Principal and Head of the Business Strategy at the group's
Atlanta location. She left in 2005 to take up the position of
CEO at Indian food company Britannia Industries where she
was eventually appointed Managing Director in 2006.
Under her direction, Britannia's revenue tripled to $841
million. Bali was awarded the "Business Woman of the
Year" Award at the 2009 Economic Times Awards. In 2009
she founded the Britannia Nutrition Foundation which
combats child malnutrition through the distribution of
fortified biscuits to Indian schoolchildren. She won a
Corporate Social Responsibility Award for her work with the
foundation. In 2011 Forbes named her on its list of "Asia's
50 Power Businesswomen".

13. KIRTHIGA REDDY
Kirthiga Reddy is the Head at Facebook's India
operations. Reddy holds a Master's in business
administration from Stanford University and an M.S. in
computer engineering from Syracuse University.
Experimental by nature she has worked with
established brands such as Silicon Graphics and
Motorola. At Silicon Graphics, she was the youngest
director of engineering and the only woman at that
level in her team. One of the career challenges for her
was when she moved from running product
management at Motorola to coming back to India for
an 18-month assignment for a general management
role.

14. EKTA KAPOOR
Who doesn’t know her? The queen of daily
soaps, Ekta Kapoor is the Joint MD of Balaji
Telefilms. Her biggest challenge is balancing
personal and work life, and being accepted
beyond my professional successes. She branched
out into Bollywood movie production in 2001
beginning with Kyo Kii... Main Jhuth Nahin Bolta.
Kucch To Hai and Krishna Cottage based on
supernatural themes followed in 2003 and 2004.
She did her schooling at Bombay Scottish
School, Mahim and attended college at Mithibai
College.

15. ARCHANA HINGORANI
Archana is the CEO of IL&FS Investment Managers. She has
been with the IL&FS Group for 16 years and has worked on
some of the pioneering private finance transactions in
India. Her main focus over the last 14 years has been on
private equity fund management. She is one of the
founding members of the IL&FS private equity business and
has overseen investments with an aggregate capitalization
value in excess of US$ 10 billion. She leads an investment
team of around 40 professionals. She is a Bachelor of Arts
(Economics) with post-graduate qualifications in
Management (MBA) as well as a Ph.D. in Corporate Finance
from the University of Pittsburgh, USA. She is also a
member of United Nations Environment
Programme, Finance Initiative, Property Working Group.

16. ROOPA KUDVA
Roopa has been Executive Director of CRISIL Ltd since July
2005. Ms. Kudva joined CRISIL in 1992. She had previously
worked for six years at Industrial Development Bank of
India in the Project Finance department. Ms. Kudva serves
as a Director of India Index Services & Products
Ltd., EconoMatters, UK. and CRISIL MarketWire Ltd. Ms.
Kudva has also worked in emerging markets in the
Mediterranean and Middle Eastern countries during her
secondment to Standard & Poor's, Paris, as
Director, Financial Institutions Ratings. She served as a
Director of National Commodity And Derivatives Exchange
Limited until September 27, 2010. She holds a graduate
degree in Statistics and a post-graduate diploma in
Management from the Indian Institute of
Management, Ahmedabad.

17. SHOBHANA BHARTIA
Shobhana Bhartia, the Chairperson and Editorial Director at
Hindustan Times Group feel that the media was the one
business, of the many her family was involved with, which
really fascinated her. From an early age, she would come up
with ideas for their newspaper Hindustan Times. She would
bounce these off her father, K.K. Birla. He realised her
passion. But to convince him that she could lead a
newspaper took a lot of hard work." When Bhartia joined
Hindustan Times in 1986, she was the first woman chief
executive of a national newspaper and probably one of the
youngest. She is considered to be one of the motive forces
behind the transformation of the Hindustan Times "into a
bright, young paper."