ICICI Bank MD and CEO Chanda Kochhar tops Fortune India's 50 Most Powerful Women in Business list, which also includes Ekta Kapoor and Farah Khan from the world of showbiz.
Axis Bank MD Shikha Sharma is at number two, while TAFE Chairperson Mallika Srinivasan has landed the third position.
Capgemini India CEO Aruna Jayanthi and AZB Partners Co-founder Zia Mody round up the top five.
Here is the list of 50 most powerful Indian women in business revealed in the latest edition of the magazine, set to soon hit the stands:
1. Chanda Kochhar, MD & CEO, ICICI Bank
2. Shikha Sharma, MD, Axis Bank
3. Mallika Srinivasan, Chairperson, TAFE
4. Aruna Jayanthi, CEO, Capgemini India
5. Zia Mody, Co-founder, AZB Partners
6. Vinita Bali, Managing Director, Britannia Industries
7. Shobhana Bhartia, Chairperson and Editorial Director, HT Media
8. Chitra Ramakrishna, Joint Managing Director, NSE
9. Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Chairman & Managing Director, Biocon
10.Frenny Bawa, ex-MD, RIM India
11. Meenakshi Saraogi, Joint MD, Balrampur Chini Mills
12. Naina Lal Kidwai, Group General Manager & Country Head, HSBC India
13. Preetha Reddy, Managing Director, Apollo Hospital Enterprises
14. Amrita Patel, Chairman, NDDB
15. Harshbeena Sahney Zaveri, MD & President, NRB Bearings
16. Kalpana Morparia, CEO, JP Morgan
17. Mira Kulkarni, MD, Mountain Valley SpringsIndia
18. Sujata Keshavan, Co-founder, Ray+Keshavan Brand Unionp
19. Roopa Kudva, MD & CEO, CRISIL
20. Renuka Ramnath, Founder, MD & CEO, Multiples Alternate Asset Management
21. Kirthiga Reddy, India Head, Facebook
22. Priya Paul, President, Park Hotels
23. Jasmeet Kaur Srivastava & Gitanjali Ghate, Managing Directors, Third Eye
25. Rama Bijapurkar, Marketing Consultant
26. Kaku Nakhate, President & Country Head India, Bank of America & Merrill Lynch
27. Rekha Menon, Executive Director, Accenture
28. Neelam Dhawan, Managing Director, Hewlett-Packard India
29. Sangeeta Pendurkar, MD, Kellogg India
30. Vedika Bhandarkar, Vice Chairperson, Credit Suisse
31. Ekta Kapoor, Joint MD, Balaji Telefilms
32. Vishakha Mulye, MD & CEO, ICICI Venture
33. Reshma Shetty, MD, Matrix India Entertainment Consultants
33. Sminu Jindal, MD, Jindal SAW
35. Renu Sud Karnad, MD, HDFC
36. Ritu Kumar, Ritu Kumar Design
37. Anuradha J. Desai, Non-executive chairperson, Venky’s, and chairperson, V. H. Group of companies
38. Vandana Luthra, Founder and mentor, VLCC Health Care
39. Lynn De Souza, Chairman and CEO, Lintas Media Group
40. Bala Deshpande, Country Head and senior MD, New Enterprise Associates India
41. Suvalaxmi Chakraborty, CEO, State Bank of Mauritius (India)
42. Farah Khan, Co-founder, Three’s Company
43. Meher Pudumjee, Chairperson, Thermax
44. Ashu Suyash, MD and Country Head, India, Fidelity International
45. Radhika Roy, MD and Executive Co-Chairperson, NDTV Group
46. Rajshree Pathy, Chairman and MD, Rajshree Sugars and Chemicals
47. Swati Piramal, Director, Piramal Healthcare; Vice Chairperson, Piramal Life Sciences
48. Manisha Girotra, Chairperson and MD, UBS
49. Meera Sanyal, Country Executive & Chairperson, RBS India
50. Anita Arjundas, MD, Mahindra Lifespaces
