List of Indian businesswomen

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This is a list of notable businesswomen from India.

## Banking and finance

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* Archana Bhargava, Chairman and Managing Director, United Bank of India[1]
* Arundhati Bhattacharya, Chairperson, State Bank of India (since October 7, 2013)[2] \- now retired
* Bala Deshpande, MD, New Enterprise Associates India
* Chanda Kochhar (born 1961), ICICI Bank Former MD and CEO
* Chitra Ramkrishna, Former Managing Director and CEO, National Stock Exchange of India
* Kalpana Morparia, CEO of South Asia and India Operations at JPMorgan Chase
* Manisha Girotra, CEO, Moelis India
* Naina Lal Kidwai, Group General Manager and Country Head of HSBC India
* Renuka Ramnath, founder of Multiples Alternate Asset Management
* Shikha Sharma (born 1960), AXIS Bank Former CEO - now retired
* Snehlata Shrivastava, Executive Director, National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development[3]
* Usha Sangwan, Managing Director, Life Insurance Corporation of India

## Real estate and construction

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* Sheila Sri Prakash, Chief Architect and Founder of Shilpa Architects; Independent Board Director of Chennai Smart Cities Ltd and Chairperson of the Board of Directors of Nirmana Investments

## Books, art and media

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* Shobhana Bhartia (born 1957), Chairperson and Editorial Director of the Hindustan Times Group
* Ekta Kapoor (born 1975), TV and movie producer, Joint Managing Director and Creative Director of Balaji Telefilms
* Ritu Kumar (born 1944), fashion designer
* Zarina Mehta, Chief Creative Officer of Broadcasting at UTV
* Chiki Sarkar, publisher, Penguin Books India
* Ashvini Yardi, Programming Head of TV channel Colors

## Equipment

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* Tanya Dubash, Executive Director and President (Marketing) of Godrej Group
* Sulajja Firodia Motwani, Joint Managing Director of Kinetic Engineering
* Lila Poonawalla, former CEO of Alfa Laval India and TetraPak India
* Mallika Srinivasan (born 1959), CEO of Tafe Motors And Tractors Limited

## Food and beverages

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* Vinita Bali (born 1955), former MD of Britannia Industries Limited
* Indra Nooyi (born 1955), Former Chairman and CEO of PepsiCo

## Health and medicine

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* Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw (born 1953), Chairman and Managing Director of Biocon
* Swati Piramal, Vice Chairperson, Piramal Enterprises
* Preetha Reddy, Managing Director of Apollo Hospitals Group
* Ameera Shah, CEO and Managing Director, Metropolis Healthcare
* Namita Thapar, Executive Director, Emcure Pharmaceuticals Limited

## Hotels and catering

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* Priya Paul (born 1967), Chairperson of Apeejay Surrendra Park Hotels

## Information technology

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* Divya Jain, founder of dLoop
* Aruna Jayanthi, CEO India Capgemini
* Roshni Nadar (born 1972), Executive Director and CEO of HCL Corporation

## Others

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* Meena Ganesh, CEO and Managing Director, Pearson Education Services
* Jyoti Gogte (born 1956), Indian entrepreneur
* Nabomita Mazumdar, businesswoman
* Zia Mody (born 1956), legal consultant, managing partner of AZB & Partners
* Smriti Nagpal, CEO of Atulyakala
* Leena Nair (born 1969), Executive Director, HR, Hindustan Unilever
* Lavanya Nalli, vice chairman of Nalli Group of Companies
* Rajani Pandit, founder of the Rajani Investigative Bureau
* Vineeta Singh, CEO and Co-Founder of Sugar Cosmetics
* Sheetal Agashe (born 1977), managing director of Brihans Natural Products[4]

## References

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1. ^ Basu, Sreeradha D.; Bhattacharyya, Rica (4 Oct 2013). "Why banking mints the most women CEOs in India". The Economic Times. Retrieved 8 Oct 2013.
2. ^ ET Bureau (8 Oct 2013). "Arundhati Bhattacharya becomes first woman to head SBI". The Economic Times. Retrieved 8 Oct 2013.
3. ^ "Board of Directors". NABARD, Official Website. Retrieved 30 November 2013.
4. ^ Sathe-Patwardhan, Radhika (2019). "The Boss Lady: Sheetal Agashe, MD, Brihans Natural Products". In Chaitanya, Tanya (ed.). Femina presents Pune's Most Powerful 2018-19 (Coffee table book). Mumbai: Worldwide Media. pp. 64–65. RNI 6253/59.

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