Top Indian Women Leaving a Remarkable Mark in the Corporate World
4. Chanda Kochhar:
Chanda Kochhar is the current Managing Director and CEO of ICICI Bank, which is the second largest bank in India. After she shifted her base from Jodhpur to Mumbai she completed her Bachelor of Arts degree from the Jai Hind College and later pursued Cost Accountancy, after that she completed her Masters degree in Management Studies from Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies. In the year 1984, she joined ICICI as the management trainee after she completed her Masters Degree. In her early days as an employee at ICICI, she was made responsible to handle project appraisal and was monitoring projects in various industries that included petrochemicals, Textile, paper and cement. Kochhar was sent as a part of core team to ICICI bank in the year 1993 to set the bank. Later, under her leadership, ICICI bank started the retail business in the year 2000. She occupied the post as the Executive Director of the ICICI bank in April 2001.
5. Kiran Mazumdar Shaw:
Kiran Mazumdar Shaw is the present Chairperson and MD of the Biocon, a biotechnology company based in Bangalore. She completed her B-Sc from the Mount Carmel College, Bangalore University in the year 1973 and later completed her post graduation course [PG] in Malting and Brewing from the Ballarat College from the Melbourne University in the year 1975. After completing her PG, she started working as a trainee brewer in Carlton and United Breweries and also worked as technical consultant at Jupiter Breweries for some time in Kolkata and also served as a technical manager at Standard Maltings Corporation at Baroda between 1975 and 1977. After all these occupations she started Biocon in 1978.