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  1. Tamildownunder

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    Thanks, Sharada. Your support has been constant and it certainly motivates me.

    Regards,

    TDU
     
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    Indra Nooyi

    Indra Krishnamurthy Nooyi can tell you a thing or two about breaking glass ceilings. She let nothing stand in her way to becoming the head of PepsiCo, the fourth-largest food and beverage company in the world. Nooyi is indeed an inspiration to all Indian women, indeed, to all women worldwide.

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    But her list of achievements doesn?t end at being head of PepsiCo. In 2006, Fortune magazine ranked Nooyi No. 1 in its list of the 50 Most Powerful Women in Business. The same year, Forbes magazine ranked her the fourth most powerful woman on earth, after Angela Merkel (Chancellor of Germany), Condoleezza Rice (US Secretary of State) and Wu Yi (Vice-Premier of China).

    Nooyi certainly wasn?t born with a silver spoon in her mouth. After graduating from Chennai, she went on to acquire degrees from IIM Calcutta and the Yale School of Management. She began her career at Boston Consulting Group, a management consulting firm, and went on to hold senior positions in companies such as Motorola and Asea Brown Boveri. She later joined PepsiCo and swiftly rose through the ranks to become its CEO in August last year.

    At PepsiCo, Nooyi was instrumental in spinning off fast-food restaurants KFC and Pizza Hut in 1997 to create a separate company called Yum Brands. She has been also been responsible for charting the way for PepsiCo?s acquisition of Tropicana.
    Nooyi has never lost sight of her Indian roots and values. She learnt the hard way that it?s best not to hide what you are when she went for her first interview in an ill-fitting business suit and was turned down for the job. She wore a sari for the next interview and was selected. Today, Nooyi is seen at most Pepsi functions in a sari.
     
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    Radha Ramaswami Basu

    Tioga Systems as CEO

    Ms. Basu comes to Tioga with 20 years of experience at HP, where she held a variety of senior management positions. In her recent position as general manager of the Electronic Business Software Organization in HP's Computer Business, she was responsible for Internet software products and frameworks that provide E-Business solutions to customers and channel partners worldwide. Ms. Basu left HP in January 1999 to engage in strategic and investment consulting for Internet startup companies.

    Ms. Basu holds a bachelor of engineering degree from the University of Madras and a master's degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Southern California. She attended the Stanford Business School Executive Management Program in 1992. Ms. Basu is on the board of directors of SEEC, Inc. (Nasdaq:SEEC), a company that specializes in solutions for e-legacy to e-business migration, and Connectinc.com (Nasdaq:CNKT), an Internet e-commerce company for NetMarketmakers.

    Radha Ramaswami Basu combines in her persona so many different strands President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of California-based Support.com, initiator of an organization for helping battered women, wife, mother, sister, aunt, friend, cricket fan and gracious hostess. Above all, that extra element to her personality is her search for the spiritual dimension to life that reveals itself in her trekking and explorations of the mysteries of the great mountains.

    The accolades for her achievements bear witness to her business achievements. She is the winner of San Francisco Women on the Web Leader of the Millennium award in 2000, for advancing the number of women on the Internet to nearly half the Internet population, and helping women in technology related fields. This was preceded by the Woman of Achievement Award for leadership and vision in the corporate field in 1995 and the Excelsior Leadership Award in 1997.
     
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    TDU Sir

    Very informative post.............Thank u sir,

    Its so inspiring to see all these achievers, thatoo at thirtees,really amazing to see them at top most designation, HATS OFF TO THEM and Thank u so much for sharing

    And, really it motivates me lot, even i always used to feel, i shld also do something at big level, yes , only if we have motivation to achieve big, we can achieve atleast at small level , THINKING BIG is always my nature, SKY IS NOT THE LIMIT for me

    I dont know iam right or wrong, thats my nature and ATHANIKUM ASAI PADU..........is also my favourite quote


    latamurali
     
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    Dear latamurali,

    Thansk for visiting the thread and I am glad to note that you have received the message as given by these achievers. It is good to have ambitions and high aims in life as you are having. I am sure you will achieve your goals and shortly you are going to find your place among the list of ' Women achievers '. Wish you all the best.

    Regards,

    TDU
     
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    Geetha Viswanathan

    "Women are the best managers: of their lives, professional careers and businesses," says a proud Geetha Viswanathan. After two decades in the fashion designing industry, today her venture 'Preyasi' boasts of clients in over 48 countries including a high profile clientele in Chennai city.

    Geetha, an alumni of ALT Bangalore, runs 'Preyasi', a leading Chennai based fashion house.

    Recently, Geetha's dream of setting up an educational institution providing quality hands-on knowledge on fashion designing has taken shape in the form of the Srijathi Institute of Fashion Technology (SIFT).

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    Sudha Narayanamurthy

    Chairperson, INFOSYS

    She has an M Tech degree in computer science and was the one who gave the first Rs 10,000 to start her husband's company. She worked for Infosys in its early years and was disappointed when her husband decided that only one of them should be in the firm. "It took me three days to accept his decision," she recalls.

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    But accept it she did and instead of heading Infosys, Sudha now leads the Infosys Foundation, an organisation she created in 1997 to provide health, education and social rehabilitation for the poor. She has very little contact with the high tech world today. She spends between 15 to 20 days every month travelling to rural areas in Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra and Orissa.

    When in Bangalore, Sudha is a housewife. She wakes up between 4:30 and 5:00 am to clean her house, cook and send her 17-year-old son to college before going to the Infosys Foundation office. Discounting expenses on phone bills (the couple's 20-year-old daughter lives abroad) and on trips, books and CDs -- the three passions of the Murthy couple -- she manages the house on a budget of Rs 5,000 to Rs 7,000 per month. "People ask me if I don't feel bored," she says, "but I don't. I am doing what I really like doing."

    A writer and renowned social activist, Sudha Murthy for years have been concentrating on issues such as health care, rehabilitation, rural uplift, education and arts. She has actively participated along with Infosys Foundation in setting up orphanages, girls hostels, students homes, relief shelters and destitute centres in several parts of the country.
     
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    Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

    Chairman & Managing Director, Biocon Limited

    Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw's pioneering efforts in biotechnology have drawn global recognition both for Indian Industry and Biocon. Her unique vision has steered Biocon's transition from an industrial enzymes company to an integrated biopharmaceutical company with strategic research initiatives. Biocon is today recognised as India's pioneering biotech enterprise.

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    As Chairperson and Mission Leader of CII's National Task Force on Biotechnology she has led several delegations to USA, Canada, UK, etc. to propel India into the global super league of biotech trailblazers. She chairs Karnataka's Vision Group on Biotechnology and also served on the Board of Science Foundation, Ireland. She presently serves on the Advisory Council of the Government’s Department of Biotechnology where she has been instrumental in bringing government, industry and academia together, to chart a clear and progressive growth path for Biotechnology in India. Ms. Shaw is also a Board member of BVGH (Bio-Ventures for Global Health). Most recently, she has been invited to join the Prime Minister’s Council on Trade & Industry in India.

    Ms. Shaw is the recipient of several prestigious awards including the ET Businesswoman of the Year, Best Woman Entrepreneur, Model Employer, Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year Award for Life Sciences & Healthcare, Leading Exporter, Outstanding Citizen, Technology Pioneer, etc. Her most cherished awards are however, the PADMASHRI (1989) and PADMA BHUSHAN (2005) presented to her by the President of India, for her pioneering efforts in Industrial Biotechnology.
    A successful technocrat of global standing, Ms. Shaw is highly respected in the corporate world. She is a much sought after biotech pioneer who has been referred to as "India's Biotech Queen" by The Economist and "India's mother of invention" by New York Times.

    Ms. Shaw received a graduate honours degree in Zoology from Bangalore University (1973) and qualified as a Master Brewer from Ballarat University, Australia (1975). Ms. Shaw also received an honorary Doctorate of Science, from her alma mater, Ballarat University, in recognition of her pre-eminent contributions to the field of Biotechnology. Recently she also received an Honorary Doctorate from the Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), in recognition of her outstanding achievements in biotechnology and industrial enzymes.
     
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    Mallika Srinivasan

    CEO, TAFE

    As CEO of Chennai, India-based Tractors and Farm Equipment (Tafe), Mallika Srinivasan leads a traditional manufacturing business, but she is not a traditional leader. In her two decades as a leader at Tafe, she has transformed the company through innovative products and processes, multiplying revenue by a factor of 30.
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    In 1986, soon after getting her Wharton degree, she returned to India to take on the challenge of running a dusty, fading part of her family’s business. Her father, industrialist A. Sivasailam, chairman of the Amalgamations Group, wanted to see what she could do with Tafe, then a small part of Amalgamations.

    “I had the freedom of choice in a lot of other things, but not in choosing the line of business,” she told the Economic Times. “He believed that I could learn a lot here.”
    “Business has a larger purpose … business can operate well only in the social context of educated and healthy people.”Srinivasan knew that India, despite its growth as a powerful industrial and technical services economic force, was still essentially an agricultural nation. But that didn’t mean that Tafe’s tractors had to be so old-fashioned — even farmers wanted newer and more sophisticated equipment.

    Srinivasan invested revenue back into research and development. Tafe introduced new models of tractors and other farm equipment almost annually, just as the car companies do. She focused on re-engineering its processes and invested heavily in enterprise resource planning.

    And it paid off. Revenues increased from less than US $20 million in 1986 to US $660 million in 2006. Along the way, Srinivasan masterminded the acquisition of a rival company in early 2005. Tafe is now second in market share in India, generating brand loyalty among farmers who crave innovative, technically advanced products.
    Srinivasan, whose company runs schools and hospitals in Chennai, also brings a principled and humane view to business. She has made an effort to increase the number of women engineers and workers in her factories, saying that diversity is an essential prerequisite for innovation.

    “Profits are important, but only for sustaining a business,” she said in a recent Economic Times profile, when they picked her as 2006 Businesswoman of the Year. “You don’t need to love money to run a business. You have to have a dream to build an institution, to build centres of excellence, to create a great team. Business has a larger purpose … business can operate well only in the social context of educated and healthy people.”
     
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    Naina Lal Kidwai

    CEO, HSBC Bank, India

    Naina Lal Kidwai (born 1957) was the first Indian woman to graduate from the Harvard Business School. As of 2006, she is the Chief Executive Officer of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation India branches.

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    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 head the operations of a foreign bank in India.

    Naina Lal Kidwai is currently the Group General Manager and Country Head of HSBC India. She has been awarded with Padma Shri, one of the highest civilian honours bestowed by the Government of India. The announcement was made by Rashtrapati Bhawan on 26 Jan 2007.

    Naina has got the honour for her exemplary work in the promotion of Trade and Industry.
     

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