Changing the rules.....To Top and Beyond......

Naina Lal Kidwai
(Group General manager & Country head ,HSBC India)



Kiran Mazumdar Shaw
(MD & CEO Biocon)


Chanda Kochhar ,
(M.D& CEO ,ICCIBank)

Women in top management positions are still a rare species......

But things are changing and more and more women are heading teams and delivering results.

At ICICI, its a woman's leadership that's making the mark........Leading India's largest private sector bank, at the age of 44, Chanda Kochhar is still learning.....From a management trainee to the CEO of ICICI, it has definitely been a winning journey for Chanda, who believes that there is no substitute for hardwork.....

She played a key role in shaping the retail finance industry of the country and the bank has won the award for the best retail bank for four years, thrice in a row (2003, '04 and '05) under her leadership.......A diligent student, this Jodhpuri girl, was busy collecting gold medals for management studies and cost accountancy in her college days...In just five years she made ICICI the largest private sector financier in the country.............

Naina Lal Kidwai 's the first Indian woman to graduate from the Harvard Business School...She began her career in banking with ANZ Grindlays and moved on to head the Indian operations of Morgen Stanley. In 2002, she joined HSBC as head of its investment banking business. She is the first woman to head the operations of a foreign bank in India...

• In 2005, she was made the country head of HSBC Group in India.


• She was honoured for her exemplary work in the Promotion of Trade and Industry, with Padma Shri


• In the yr 2000, the Fortune magazine declared her as the third most powerful businesswoman in Asia!!
  
  

Felicitated with PadmaShri (1989) and PadmaBushan (2005), Dr.Kiran Mazhumdar Shaw was termed as "India's mother of invention" by the New York Times...

The Chaiman and Managing Director of India's biggest biotechnology company, Biocon, Kiran became India's richest woman in 2004, with an estimated worth of Rs.2,100 crores....

With a BSc degree in Zoology, she went to Australia and qualified as a master brewer in 1974. She joined Carlton & United Beverages, as a trainee, in 1974 and later on shifted to Biocon Biochemicals ,as a Trainee Manager, in 1978......

With a capital of Rs. 10,000, she founded Biocon India in collaboration with Biocon Biochemicals. Biocon's initial operation was to extract an enzyme from papaya. Banks were hesitant to give loans as biotechnology was a totally new field at that point of time, and she was a WOMAN entrepreneur, which was a RARE phenomenon.....

Over the years, the company grew under her stewardship and today, Biocon is the biggest pharmaceutical firm in India......

Even as the corporate world celebrates the rise of women in its ranks, thousands of women entrepreneurs are working hard to prove that even when it comes to strating and sustaining a business, they are second to none.........