Business Today celebrates 18th Most Powerful Women in Business awards

The felicitation ceremony of the 18^th Business Today Most Powerful Women in Business Awards was held on the evening of March 12, at Taj Lands End hotel in Mumbai.

The evening hosted some prominent business leaders: Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Meta (Facebook); KV Kamath, Chairperson, National Bank for Financing Infrastructure and Development; Uday Kotak, MD & CEO of Kotak Mahindra Bank; and Aaditya Thackeray, Cabinet Minister of Tourism and Environment, Government of Maharashtra.

The two-panel discussions – on New-Age Women Leaders and on Diversity in Organisations provided much food for thought to the audience. The panels debated around the shortage of women in middle and senior management positions, despite their higher numbers in education. The panellists also felt that apart from having a regulation (Companies Act) that mandates having a woman in every Board, what is also needed is to inculcate a culture of gender inclusion in the workforce of organizations. Plus, men were seen as active participants in this transformation, and not necessarily a negative force.

The panellists included Dipali Goenka, CEO & Joint Managing Director, Welspun India; Jyoti Deshpande, CEO, Viacom18; Anjali Bansal, Founder, Avaana Capital; Priti Rathi Gupta, Founder, LXME; Ashima Goyal, Member, RBI Monetary Policy Council, Vibha Padalkar, MD and CEO, HDFC Life, Suparna Mitra, CEO, Watches and Wearables Division, Titan Company, and Parizad Sirwalla, Partner and National Head - Tax, Global Mobility Services, KPMG in India.

In addition, Business Today’s top leadership was in attendance in full strength, including Aroon Purie, Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of the India Today Group; Rahul Kanwal, Executive Director, Business Today and News Director, TV Today Network; Sourav Majumdar, Editor, Business Today; Siddharth Zarabi, Managing Editor of Business Today TV; Business Today magazine’s Managing Editors Alokesh Bhattacharyya and Anand Adhikari; Alok Nair, Chief Revenue Officer, Business Today; Aayush Ailawadi, Technology Editor and Presenter, Business Today TV; and Aabha Bakaya, Senior Editor & Presenter, Business Today TV.

The 18^th edition of the Business Today Most Powerful Women in Business awards listing this year had a record 17 debutants, reflecting the democratic spread of women leaders across industries, including traditionally male-dominated ones such as the alcohol industry (Hina Nagarajan of Diageo India), steel (Soma Mondal of SAIL), and regulation (Ashima Goyal of RBI Monetary Policy Committee).

Purie said, “This year’s listing has a mix of great women leaders across multiple industries and regulatory bodies. Today, no industry dominates the list, because women are succeeding everywhere. That can only be good for the country and its economy.”

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