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DID
YOU
KNOW?
Tech wizardry is not considered a preferred career by the President of India as the chairperson
for women by many. Not just in India, but the for the Board of Governors of the prestigious
Silicon Valley also gets its fair share of blame for National Institute of Technology.
not having enough women in their board rooms. 3. Kumud Srinivasan-She is often described as
But the women in tech seem to be putting an the shining star when it comes to women in
end to this “women- hater social view”. They have tech primarily for her previous position as the
finally shattered the glass ceiling and have proven President of Intel India. Educated in Berkeley,
to those who believe that women are incapable of she is a working mother serving currently as the
leading in the corporate world, especially the IT Vice President in one of the Intel subdivision
sector. In a short span, they have shown what they which manufactures storage hardware. She
are actually capable of. has multiple foreign degrees and also a degree
There are many women pioneering in multiple in Economics from the Calcutta University.
industries and creating awesome products and 4. Aruna Jayanthi- Ms. Aruna Jayanthi has been
services. Out of these innumerable hard-working described by Business India as the most
woman, who seem to be living in oblivion in a powerful woman in the Indian Corporate World.
male dominated world, as students we would like She is currently the CEO of an outsourcing
to introduce 5 personalities who are shaping the company called Capgemini – a company that
bigger sphere of the IT industry and tech in general. scored over a 12 billion € turnout in 2016.
Let’s meet them! Prior to this, she served as the Global Delivery
1. Rekha Menon-Most of us would probably have Head for the same company. She is one of the
heard of this giant multinational company board members of the National Institute of
called Accenture. Accenture is a leading IT Technology, Calicut.
consulting company in the world. But did 5. Neelam Dhawan- Anyone who aspires to get into
you know that a sweet and charming woman a software giant like Microsoft should know that
named RekhaMenon is thechairman of this IT it’s no cakewalk. But Ms.NeelamDhawanwho is
GIANT? She played a pivotal role in escalating currently the managing director of Hewlett-
India from a poor business destination to one Packard, previously served in the same post
of the most profitable countries to do business in Microsoft India. She has also dabbled with
by meticulous planning, monitoring and HCL and IBM for short periods of time She
implementing business strategies. lends her priced perspectives to NASSCOM in
2. Vanitha Narayanan-We’ve all used IBM an attempt to improve the Software business
machines and software at some point or trends in India.
another. This company has played a pivotal role This may be a short list, but is big enough to change
in the development of Indian business model our perspective.
and Mrs Vanitha Narayanan has always been
there to help – first as managing director and Prerna Patil, IX-C
later as the chairman. She was also selected Rudra Kinkar, VIII-A
