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Entrepreneurs
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
Entrepreneur Dr.Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw,Chairman & Managing Director of Bioon Ltd:
The business and managerial skills of Dr. Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw has made her one of the richest business entrepreneurs in India. She ranks among the elite ranks of the Indian business fraternity and is a member of premier business organizations like CII, IIM Bangalore and others.
Dr. Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw is an Indian entrepreneur. She is the Chairman & Managing Director of Biocon Ltd. In 2004, she became India’s richest woman.
Kiran Mazumdar Shaw was born on March 23, 1953 in Bangalore. She had her schooling at Bishop Cotton Girls School and Mount Carmel College at Bangalore. After completing her Bachelor of Science degree in Zoology from Bangalore University in 1973, she went to Ballarat Institute of Advanced Education, Australia to study brewing and qualified as a master brewer in 1974.
Kiran Mazumdar Shaw started her professional career as trainee brewer in Carlton & United Beverages in 1974. In 1978, she joined as Trainee Manager with Biocon Biochemicals Limited in Ireland. In the same year, Kiran Mazumdar Shaw founded Biocon India in collaboration with Biocon Biochemicals Limited, with a capital of Rs.10,000 in 1978. She initially faced many problems regarding funds for her business. Banks were hesitant to give loan to her as biotechnology was a totally new field .Biocon's initial operation was to extract an enzyme from papaya. Her business portfolio of products and services with a research focus on Diabetes, Oncology and Auto-immune disease.Today, Biocon is recognised as India's pioneering biotech enterprise. India's richest woman with an estimated worth of Rs. 2,100 crore.
She was termed India's Biotech Queen by The Economist and Fortune, and India's mother of invention by New York Times. A very active social activist, she has been involved in various projects like the Bangalore Agenda Task Force (BATF). She was awarded the MV Memorial Award. Kiran Mazumdar Shaw is the recipient of several prestigious awards. These include ET Businesswoman of the Year 2004, Best Woman Entrepreneur, Model Employer in 1983, Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year Award for Life Sciences & Healthcare in 2002, Leading Exporter, Outstanding Citizen in 1987, Technology Pioneer, etc. Government of India also felicitated her with Padmashri (1989) and Padma Bhushan (2005).
Ekta Kapoor, creative head of Balajji Telefilms
Ekta Kapoor, The daughter of star actor Jeetendra and sister of Tushar Kappor, Ekta Kapoor is known in almost all Indian households for her K series serials. She is one of the front runners of Indian television industry and has responsible for the huge profits of her company Balaji Telefilms. Balaji has made cores of profit under her.Ekta J Kapoor is an Indian Creative Director of Balaji Telefilms and TV producer. She awarded with Ernst & Young (E&Y) Startup Entrepreneur of the Year award in 2001.
She was born on June 7, 1975; Ekta Kapoor is daughter of former Bollywood superstar Jeetendra and sister of current Bollywood hero Tusshar Kapoor. Ekta Kapoor did her schooling from Bombay Scottish School and later on joined Mithibai College. She was not interested in academics and on the advice of her father ventured into TV-serial production at the age of 19.And soon she changed the face of Indian television industry and she completely dominated it.
Ekta Kapoor is the creative director of Balaji Telefilms. Her company has produced more than 25 serials. Ekta Kapoor's serials have captured the imagination of masses. She had broken all previous records of TV serial production and popularity in India. Some of her other popular creations are Kahaani Ghar Ghar Kii, Kasautii Zindagii Kay, Kkusum, Kis Desh Mein Hai Meraa Dil, Kitani Mohabbat Hai and Kasamh Se.Ekta Kapoor can be aptly called as the reigning queen of Indian television industry.
Sunita Narain, an environmentalist and political Activist
Sunita Narain, A renowned social activist fighting for the importance of the Green concept of sustainable development, Sunita Narain has made India proud. She has been currently chosen as the director of the Society for Environmental Communications. She was also awarded the prestigious Padma Shri award in 2005.
Sunita Narain is an Indian environmentalist and political activist .Sunita Narain has been with the Centre for Science and Environment from 1982. She is currently the director of the Centre and the director of the Society for Environmental Communications and publisher of the fortnightly magazine, Down To Earth.
In her years at the Centre, she has worked hard at analysing and studying the relationship between environment and development. Over the years, she has also developed the management and financial support systems needed for the institution. She is currently in charge of the Centre's management and plays an active role in a number of research projects and public campaigns. Her research interests are wide-ranging - from global democracy, with a special focus on climate change. She began her career by writing and researching for the State of India's Environment reports and then went on to study issues related to forest management. For this project she traveled across the country. In 1989 co-authored the publication Towards Green Villages advocating local participatory democracy as the key to sustainable development. In the early 1990s she got involved with global environmental issues.
Narain remains an active participant, both nationally and internationally, in civil society. She serves on the boards of various organisations and on governmental committees and has spoken at many forums across the world on issues of her concern and expertise. In 2005, she was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India.
In 2008 Narain delivered the K R Narayanan Oration on "Why Environmentalism Needs Equity: Learning from the environmentalism of the poor to build our common future".
Neelam Dhawan
Neelam Dhawan, Microsoft India managing director
A major name in the Indian business scene, Neelam Dhawan is the managing director of the Microsoft's sales and marketing operations. She is well known for implementing business strategies which have earned enormous profits for Microsoft.
Neelam Dhawan, a former Hewlett-Packard India executive has been associated with the IT industry for 22 years. She has served as vice president, Customer Solutions Group, HP India with a focus on enterprise, public sector and SMB sectors for all computing products and services. Prior to joining HP in 1999, Dhawan had served in IBM and HCL.
"Neelam Dhawan is very highly respected in the industry and has an excellent track record of managing customer and partner relationships. She will provide the required direction and leadership in delivering significant value to our customers across India," said Venkatesan in a statement.
Dhawan will return to HP, where she was earlier VP Customer solutions.
Naina Lal Kidwai
Naina Lal Kidwai ,(born 1957) is the Chief Executive Officer of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation India branches. She is the first Indian woman to graduate from the Harvard Business School.
Fortune magazine listed Kidwai among the World's Top 50 Corporate Women from 2000 to 2003. According to the Economic Times, she is the first woman to guide the functioning of a foreign bank in India. At present, she is working as the Group General Manager and Country Head of HSBC India.
She was born in the year 1957. Raised in Mumbai and Delhi, she did her schooling from Simla. Alumna of Delhi University, she is the first Indian woman to have graduated from Harvard Business School. She is among the top business women of India.
She began her career in banking with ANZ Grindlays Bank (acquired by Standard Chartered Bank in 2000)and then moved on to head the Indian operations of Morgan Stanley. She left Morgan Stanley in 2002 to join HSBC India as head of its investment banking business. In May 2005, she was named country head of the HSBC Group in India. In the year 2000, the Fortune magazine declared her as the third most powerful businesswoman in Asia. She is the mother of two children, who is maintaining a great balance between work and home.
Family:
Naina Lal is a Chartered Accountant and pursued an MBA at Harvard Business School. Her mother is the sister of industrialist Lalit Mohan Thapar. Her cousin, Gautam Thapar currently manages Ballarpur Industries Ltd, one of the largest manufacturers of paper in the country. Naina is married to Rashid Kidwai who runs the NGO, Digital Partners. She is the mother of two children, who is maintaining a great balance between work and home.
Naina Lal Kidwai has received many accolades. Her commendable work has been given due recognition by honoring her with the Padmashri award.
Sulajja Firodia Motwani
She has been nominated as the business 'Face of the Millennium' by magazine India Today and also as the 'Global Leader of Tomorrow' by the World Economic Forum."
Meet Sulajja Firodia Motwani, joint managing director, Kinetic Engineering, and director, Kinetic Motors and manages the overall operations and business development strategies.
She was born into a business family - grandfather H K Firodia started Kinetic Engineering and father Arun Firodia founded the Kinetic group. She armed with a management degree from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburg; Motwani joined Barra International, California, an investment consultancy firm. Four years with Barra gave her an exposure to finance. This was also the time she met and married Manish Motwani, who was with Sun Microsystems.
The group’s joint venture with Honda Motor Company fell through in 1998 making Kinetic Honda to Kinetic Motors. During this period the company increased its annual sales to 19,000 vehicles in July 2002 set to achieve a target of 26,000.
Sulajja Firodia Motwani won a number of awards such as the award for excellent performance as the woman CEO by the Institute of Marketing and Management (2003); Young Super Achiever Award from the leading magazine ‘Business Today’ (2003); Society Young Achiever's Award for Business in the year 2002; Global Leader of Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum (2002); and ‘Face of the Millennium’ by ‘India Today’.
Mallika Srinivasan
Mallika Srinivasan, Director of TAFE India,She is a well known entrepreneur of India. Her skills and strategies have helped the company earn profits. Mallika Srinivasan is one of the most successful women CEOs in India.
Born on November 19, 1959 as the eldest daughter of industrialist A Sivasailam, she is the pride of her parents. She was always brilliant in academics. She did her in MA (econometrics) from Madras University. Thereafter, she went abroad to pursue further studies. She did her MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Married to Venu Srinivasan, the CMD of TVS Motor, she is living happily with their two children.
In the year 1986, she planned to join the family business. She was made the General Manager of Tafe (Tractors and Farm Equipment) Company. When she took over the responsibility of business, the turnover of the Company was Rs 85 cr. She is a strong headed woman, who is leading the activities of a Company that is involved in macho business such as tractor manufacturing. At present, the Company is earning a business over Rs 1,200 cr. It has been a long journey for the Company, which has witnessed many ups and downs. The company has had a long alliance with Massey Ferguson, which is now a part of Agco.
Mallika Srinivasan is serving as the president of premier industrial bodies like Tractor Manufacturers Association and the Madras Management Association. She is the first lady to have assumed the role of a president of the Madras Chamber of Commerce and Industry. She is also a prominent member of the governing board of the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad. She is one of the top ten business woman of the year in 2006. She is also a leading in social services.
Zia Mody
Zia Mody,Senior PartnerZia Mody was listed as one of the top 25 most powerful business women by Business Today. Her strategies have helped AZB & Partners earn great profits. She has also been awarded as the Best Knowledge Manager by Financial Express.
Mody is the daughter of well known Indian jurist Soli Sorabjee and is an active member of the Bahai faith and a Board Member of the New Era High School. Mody's initial education was at Elphinstone College, Mumbai. She then went on to study law at Selwyn College, Cambridge University, followed by a masters degree from Harvard Law School. She then passed the New York State Bar examination, and qualified as an attorney in the State of New York.
She worked for five years with Baker & McKenzie in New York City, before returning to India. She started her own practice in Mumbai in 1984, which she merged twice with other firms to form AZB & Partners, now India's second-largest law firm, where she is a senior partner. She is also a member of the Securities and Exchange Board of India's. Standing Committee on Mutual Funds, and of the Capital Market Committee of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry.
Business Today listed Mody as one of the twenty-five most powerful business women in India in September 2004, and again in February 2006. 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.
Ritu Nanda
Ritu Nanda, CEO, Escolife Ritu Kapoor-Nanda, currently the Chief Executive Officer of Escolife, is a prominent Indian entrepreneur associated chiefly with the life insurance business.
She is the daughter of Raj Kapoor & Krishna Raj Kapoor, and was born in Mumbai on 30 October 1948. She is married to Rajan Nanda, a distinguished industrialist of India. She has two children Nikhil Nanda and Natasha Nanda.
She has more than 55,000 clients, and is the recipient of the Brand Ambassador and the Best Insurance Advisor of the Decade awards from the Life Insurance Corporation of India, the largest life insurance company of India. Ritu Nanda entered the Guinness Book of Records for selling 17,000 pension policies in a single day. She is also CED of Raksha TPA, which provides third party administrative services for health care, in 2000, she established the RNIS College of Insurance, which today has over 50 branches all over the country.
Indu Jain
Indu Jain, Indu Jain is the chairman of India's largest media group, Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd., which owns the Times of India and other large newspapers of the Times Group and the president of the Times Foundation. The Times Group publishes India's largest newspapers, which include The Times of India, The Economic Times and Navbharat Times.
She actively supports women's rights, women's uplift and the encouragement of entrepreneurship.Indu is founder President of the Ladies wing of FICCI (FLO).
She is Chairperson of the Bharatiya Jnanpith Foundation, which awards India's most prestigious literary award, the Jnanpith, and supports endeavours in the field of literature in every major Indian language.
Ms Jain is also the guiding force behind The Oneness Forum, The Forum recently awarded the Mahatma-Mahavira Awards to outstanding individuals from all of walks of life and is involved in several activities that seek to bring, and highlight, a sense of Oneness in the world. Spreading the message of Peace Within First, Indu Jain spear heads a movement to spread the principles of peace globally.
Shahnaz Husain
Shahnaz Husain, Shahnaz Husain is the Chairperson of the Shahnaz Hussain Group, one of India's leading companies in the field of beauty and anti-ageing products. she was awarded the Padma Shree by the Union Government in 2006.She is rightly honored as the most successful Indian entrepreneur, as she markets the most sought after product in the world; which is 'beauty'.
Shahnaz Husain belongs to a royal Muslim family which migrated from Samarkhand to India Shahnaz received her schooling in an Irish convent and because of the influence of her father, Chief Justice N.U. Beg, she developed a love for poetry and English Literature.
She was married at the age of 15 and was a mother by the next year. When her husband was posted in Tehran, Iran, she developed an interest in beauty treatments and decided to study cosmetology. Consequently, she turned her attention to Ayurveda.
in 1977 she set up her own salon at her house in Delhi with an initial investment
of Rs 35000. In contrast to salons offering chemical treatments, Shahnaz offered Ayurvedic products.
In 2002, the Shahnaz Husain Group, based in New Delhi, was worth $100 million.
Today, her company, Shahnaz Husain Herbals is one of the largest manufacturers of herbal products in the world. It formulates and markets over 400 products for various beauty and health needs and has a strong presence across the globe, from the USA to Asia.
Shahnaz became the first and only woman in 107 years to receive the World's Greatest Woman Entrepreneur Award from Success magazine of the USA. Shahnaz was selected for the prestigious Global Indian "Woman of the Millenium" Award, presented by Global Indian Congress, based in California, USA.
Shernaz Vakil
Shernaz Vakil, Shernaz Vakil is the Managing Director of Dai-ichi Karkaria since 1992. Shernaz attained a BA in Psychology from St. Xaviers College, Mumbai, and an MA in Industrial Psychology .She later went on to study an MBA in Armstrong, Berkley, in the USA. Dai-ichi has four decades of experience in the manufacture of Oilfield Chemicals, amongst other chemical products.
The company has played a pioneering role in the development and growth of the Specialty Chemical industry in India. It has access to state-of-the art technology through technical collaboration with Dai-ichi Kogyo Seiyaku of Japan. In 1998, the Company commissioned a new facility to manufacture bulk actives, advanced intermediates and pharmaceutical specialties. Dai-Ichi's clients include ONGC, British Gas and Cairn Energy in the oil sector and RIL, IPCL and BPCL in the refinery sector.The new research and development centre, pilot plant and multi-purpose manufacturing facility are located at Hyderabad, India.
Ramma Bans
Ramma Bans, She is Dietician,Beautician and Fitness Guru.
She was born on 25th November 1924 in Patiala, Ramma Bans is the She is Dietician,Beautician and Fitness Guru and beauty contestant trainer.weight-loss pioneer, credited with introducing aerobics to India.
Ramma trained in London in beauty therapy in the 1960s and returned to Delhi in 1967 to start her own beauty salon, which was patronised by the diplomatic corp.She Started the first health club in India in 1962.
She introduced herbal beauty ingredients in 1964.
She was the first to train deaf and dumb girs as beauticians thereby helping them to be economically independent.
She has been Indira Gandhi's beautician and her aerobic classes have been attended by Bollywood's glitterati, from Dimple Kapadia to Rani Mukerji. Ramma and Rekha, the Bollywood legend, produced a documentary on the mind and body temple, with profits going to children with disabilities.
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