International Women's Day: Celebrating women who made a mark in the biz world

International Women's Day 2022: EJ Biz celebrates path makers in the world of business. Women who shattered the glass ceiling in India and paved the way for women in industry and markets.

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• Arundhati Bhattacharya: From veteran India banker to top tech executive, Arundhati was the first woman to head the largest bank in the country, SBI and implement revolutionary changes. Currently the Chairperson and CEO of Salesforce India, Bhattacharya narrates her account of a career spanning killing snakes at rural offices to digitising SBI in her autobiography ""Indomitable". The 65-year-old top manager is also featured as one Fortune’s 'World’s 50 Greatest Leaders'.
  
  
• Rekha Menon: Chairperson of Accenture and the first woman Chair for tech body Nasscom has been a true path creator and inspiration. Menon co-founded two technology companies and was an entrepreneur for over 25 years before joining Accenture in 2004. Rekha also believes in giving back and has founded a not-for -profit and also on the board of Pratham Books and Akshara Foundation. A leading industry voice on tech led innovation and socio-economic progress, she is recognized among the top 10 LGBT Ally Executives globally.
  
  
• Kiran Mazumdar Shaw: Biotech pioneer Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw is the founder and executive chairperson of Biocon Limited. Shaw, 68, an authoritative voice in India's pharmaceutical industry, founded Bengaluru-based Biocon Limited in 1978 with just two employees and currently leads the company that is now worth close to Rs 50,000 crore by market-cap and employs more than 11,000 people.
  
  
• Falguni Nayar: Nykaa founder, Nayar became India’s wealthiest self-made women billionaire with a net worth of $6.5 billion. FSN E-Commerce Ventures, Nykaa’s parent entity, is India’s first women-led unicorn to hit the stock exchange. Nayar, a former investment banker, turned entrepreneur just few months before turning 50. She launched the e-commerce platform in 2012, selling beauty and personal care products through its mobile app and website.
  
  
• Madhabi puri buch: Making t he mark as a first on regulation street, Buch is the first woman chief of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi), the regulator in charge of overseeing India’s $3.3-trillion stock market ecosystem. The IIM-Ahmedabad alumna is also the youngest Sebi chief. The financial whiz has had a career with postings from Shanghai to Singapore.