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lBANKING FINANCE SECTOR<br />
» ARUNDHATI BHATTACHARYA<br />
Chairman, SBI<br />
She assumed the office as<br />
Chairman of State Bank of<br />
India on October 7, 2013. She<br />
is the first woman chairman<br />
of the country’s largest Bank. She<br />
also has the distinction of being the<br />
first women managing director of the<br />
bank. Arundhati Bhattacharya joined<br />
SBI in 1977 and since then has held<br />
various important portfolios, She was<br />
Managing Director & CEO of SBI’s<br />
investment banking arm, SBI Capital<br />
Markets Limited. As Chief General Manager (New Businesses),<br />
Mrs. Bhattacharya was involved in setting up several new<br />
companies / initiatives of SBI including SBI General Insurance,<br />
SBI SG Securities Ltd, etc.<br />
» CHANDA KOCHAR<br />
MD and CEO, ICICI Bank<br />
Chanda Kochar, 51, is currently<br />
Managing Director and Chief<br />
Executive Officer (CEO) of<br />
India’s largest private bank—<br />
ICICI Bank. She oversees assets of<br />
$93 billion, more than 2,750 branches<br />
in India and the bank’s presence<br />
in 19 countries. Her prime focus<br />
remains pursuing new strategies<br />
and prioritising day-to-day banking<br />
business through its branches rather<br />
than big-ticket deals. Under her<br />
leadership ICICI was declared the best retail bank in India for five<br />
consecutive years. In 2009 she became the youngest CEO and first<br />
woman to head ICICI bank, the second-largest lender in India.<br />
» SHIKHA SHARMA<br />
Managing Director & CEO, Axis Bank<br />
Ms. Sharma began her career<br />
with the ICICI group<br />
where she has worked<br />
across various verticals<br />
like Project Finance, Retail Banking<br />
and Investment Banking. Her<br />
last assignment was as Managing<br />
Director & CEO of ICICI Prudential<br />
Life Insurance Company, a leading<br />
private sector life insurance company<br />
in the country. In 2012 she was<br />
named in the Forbes List of Asia’s 50<br />
Power Business Women.<br />
» NAINA LAL KIDWAI<br />
Group General Manager & Country Head, HSBC, India<br />
An Economic graduate<br />
from Delhi University an<br />
she was the first Indian<br />
woman to graduate from<br />
Harvard Business School. Infact,<br />
she is now also a global advisor<br />
at Harvard Business School. She<br />
started her career with ANZ<br />
Grindlays. For her contributions<br />
in the field of trade and industry<br />
government of India conferred<br />
Padma Shri award on her.<br />
» CHITRA RAMAKRISHNA<br />
Joint MD, National Stock Exchange<br />
She is the Managing Director<br />
and CEO of the National<br />
Stock Exchange. A chartered<br />
accountant, Chitra, has been<br />
with NSE since its inception in 1991.<br />
She was part of a five-member team<br />
selected by the Government of India<br />
and tasked with the creation of a<br />
modern screen-based pan-Indian<br />
stock exchange. She was also part of<br />
a team formed to draft the legislative<br />
framework for Sebi.<br />
lMULTINATIONAL COMPANIES<br />
» INDRA NOOYI<br />
Chairman and CFO PepsiCo<br />
Indra Nooyi, 56, is chairman and<br />
CFO PepsiCo, the second largest<br />
food and beverage business. Born<br />
in Chennai, Indra did her bachelor’s<br />
in Science from Madras Christian<br />
College in 1974 and a post-graduate<br />
Diploma in Management (MBA)<br />
from Indian Institute of Management,<br />
Calcutta in 1976. Beginning her career<br />
in India, Nooyi held product manager<br />
positions at Johnson & Johnson and<br />
textile firm Mettur Beardsell. Nooyi<br />
joined PepsiCo in 1994 and was named president and CFO in<br />
2001. She has been conferred with prestigious Padma Bhushan<br />
for her business achievements and being an inspiration to India’s<br />
corporate leadership.<br />
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