Daughters of Indian Businessman

While some have just joined and are still helping businesses to grow to climb for most others has been difficult. These women have thrown their entrepreneurial energy in the family business and helped the company stay ahead of the curve while increasing responsibilities in key accounts. They have broken the psychological blocks to a son and a daughter is not a potential successor! As women continue to expand its role in the economy and show that they are equal opportunity as men, fathers provide important positions to their daughters in the family business. Very recently a series of plan was announced by the chairman of health service provider Apollo Hospitals. Prathap Reddy said his oldest daughter Preetha Reddy will be responsible for the group when he retires. Reddy has four daughters and they have become the four pillars on which his groundbreaking company stands today. His oldest daughter Preetha Reddy is the Apollo Hospitals’ CEO while Suneeta Reddy is the managing director (finance) and Sangita Reddy is the Executive Director (Operations). Shobhana Kamineni look after health insurance and new business initiatives of the group. Reddy, in some of his recent interviews in the media, has said that his daughters are brilliant and they can handle things beautifully. With health care empire that just seems to be growing, thanks to the dynamic four daughters, Pratap Reddy is a proud father. The eldest daughter of industrialist A Sivasailam is pride her parents and a well-known entrepreneur in India. Mallika Srinivasan joined his father’s mergers Group 1986th She became General Manager of TAFE (Tractors and Farm Equipment) Company. She converted TAFE to a hi-technology-oriented businesses and increased sales significantly. The company found a niche for itself as the leading tractor manufacturer and expanded its activities over her leadership. Mallika did her MA (Econometrics) from Madras University. She then went abroad to pursue further studies. She did her MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Married to Venu Srinivasan , Chairman and Managing Director of TVS Motor, she is one of the most successful female CEOs in India. She was the Economic Times business woman of the year 2006. Interesting was Lakshmi Venu, daughter of Venu and Mallika Srinivasan, recently elected a member of the Board The auto-component maker Sundaram Clayton Ltd., TVS Motors holding company. This move was seen as a supplementary plan for TVS Motor, India’s third largest two-wheeler manufacturer by sales. In addition to having successful industrialist parents, Lakshmi has impressive educational credentials. School Topper from Sishya School in Chennai, Lakshmi went Yale and graduated in economics and holds a PhD holder from the University of Warwick in Britain. Sulajja Firodia Motwani is the joint managing director of two-wheeler company Kinetic Motor Company, a position she inherited from her father. The fact that at the helm of Kinetic she met the challenge of directing a company for joint venture partner, Honda, moved out. She had to do with the market when the scooters were not fashion and motorcycles were rave. Kinetic got to make his debut in the motorcycle business and tied with foreign manufacturers to bring in modern scooters to lure back customers. Sulajja survived this difficult part, did her parents proud and paved the way for their siblings. Sulajja did her MBA from Carnegie Melon and worked in California for a few years before heading home to join the family business. Roshni Nadar, the only daughter of tech billionaire Shiv Nadar, took over as managing director and CEO of HCL Corporation, at the age of 27. This young heiress made her MBA in social entrepreneurship and strategy from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management. After his training and returns Roshni homes remained involved in brand building and social initiatives in the HCL. As her graduation, she suggests, skills set out in the social enterprise management, and thus its role in HCL she participates only in the development side of the business, while her father and founder of HCL Shiv Nadar has full authority to take important decisions in its interests. Roshni participates only in the investment company HCL Corp., and not in either HCL Info Systems and HCL Technologies – are both managed by a team of staff. Interestingly enough, this young lady her interests in media and changed her major from economics to the film. She read on radio, television and film and did practice with CNBC and CNN before she left to pursue a career in administration. Another good example is Meher Pudumjee. She took the chair once occupied by Thermax founder and her grandfather AS Bhathena, nurtured by her father, Rohinton Aga and preserved by his mother Anu Aga. Meher joined Thermax as a trainee engineer in August 1990. In a year’s time, she had the responsibility to manage the company’s foreign operations in the UK. She returned to India in 1996 and became a member of the Board. After her stints with the treasury and capital management functions, she moved to corporate strategic planning. In 2001 was appointed Pudumjee non-executive director of Thermax and became Vice President 2002nd She learned the ins and outs of the industry for 14 long years before succeeds his mother 2004th Together with her husband (Pheroze Pudumjee), Meher has added Thermax on the road to success. Meher, is a graduate in chemical engineering from Imperial College of Science & Technology, London. She was the Business Standard CEO of the Year for 2007 — 08th Even Anuradha Desai may have inherited his father’s empire because of her birth, she has tried hard to expand into newer areas of the poultry farm and survived an outbreak of bird flu. Daughter of the late BV Rao, a pioneer of organized poultry business in India, leading Venkateshwara Hatcheries group, while her two younger brothers work closely together in the group. Anuradha finetune the vision that she inherited from her father and is now voting on the Indian poultry industry. She has been an increase in sales in his father’s business manifold. She now oversees a multi – business activities including eggs, egg powder, poultry feed, vaccines, biotechnology, research and development and even wine distribution and entertainment. She also added export initiatives Venky’s Chicken to her success. Shefali Munjal was elected to the father, Sunil Kant Munjal’s Hero Group to examine the company’s new projects. Where others failed, she held IT and ITES companies afloat, and added new to the portfolio. In addition to these projects, she has been an integral part of business development and strategic decision-making team of Hero Corporate. Shefali is actively involved in the strategic review of activity and is a good team player. She is currently doing a major program at Harvard Business School, and the expected degree in 2011. She is also a member of the Confederation of Indian Industry’s National Committee for the insurance and pensions, a founding member of the CII Young Indian Council, the Entrepreneurs Organization (Delhi Chapter) and The Art of Living Foundation. Shefali is also a trained pianist, sports adventure passionate amateur painter and speaks fluent French. Pia Singh, managing his father’s entertainment venture. Daughter of KP Singh, chairman of DLF Group, the heads DLF entertainment venture, Digital Talkies (DT) Cinema and manages the Group’s retail as its executive director. This multi-tasking person works with GE Capital risk guaranteed before joining the group. Interestingly, there was Pia mind movies not newfound. During his academic days she pushed a short film-making course from New York University after graduating from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania with a focus on finance. Priya Paul took the reins of the Apeejay Buzz Endre Park after the early death of his father Buzz Endre Paul.’s younger sister, Priti Paul looked after shipping operations of Apeejay Buzz Endre Group , while their brother was reading. Dylan gave a new dimension to the Park Hotel chain. Priti took over the creative side, and looked after the Oxford bookstore, cha Bar chain and real estate department. Brother Karan Paul is now chairman and managing other companies. Dylan is degree in economics from Wellesley College, USA, while Priti is a Master in Design Studies from Harvard University and a bachelor of architecture, minor in economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA. Godrej For daughters it was tough, had the children go to trainees prove themselves and move on. Adi Godrej’s daughter Tanya Dubash current president, marketing and managing director of Godrej Industries and young daughter Nisha is Executive Vice President for the development of Godrej Industries and is also on the board of Godrej Agrovet. When his son, Pirojsha, started working for Godrej properties after three weeks of induction programs like everyone else, had all his father say was that Pirojsha career would depend solely on their performance, because for any new players in the group. The same is the case with Shalaka Gulabchand, daughter of Ajit Gulabchand, chairman and managing director of Hindustan Construction Company, and the man behind the Bandra-Worli sea link. She joined the company in September 2000 as managing (planning and business development). There was no time for the only daughter when she will join the Board . It was performance-based. In June 2007, was appointed Shalaka General Manager-Business Development. Shalaka, has a bachelor’s degree in international relations at Boston University. Sminu Jindal, the daughter of Prithviraj Jindal and granddaughter of OP Jindal, joined the family firm as a trainee at the end of the FAG teens in Swastik Foils, a unit of Jindal saw. She turned around the sick unit into a profitable business in the first year to join the groundbreaking production of ultra thin gauge steel, which was unprecedented in that era and time. She trained since his views of Jindal SAW 1997th Soon she was at the helm of affairs of the Executive Director. Although confined to a wheelchair because of an accident at age 11, she never let her spirit to be chained. She started step by environmental sewage treatment plants and environmentally friendly processes much before the government regulators’ drive. Jindal SAW AB was one of the very first companies to be awarded to all environmental clearances. Prakash Chauhan three small stars being groomed to join Parle Agro business from scratch. The eldest, Schauna Chauhan made her B-school and went Parle Agro in 1999 and in 2002 she was running the business. She is now president, while the father is the chairman. Alisha Chauhan was passionate about sports and opened V3 “a chain of health and fitness center. She diversified the business through this venture. Meanwhile, the youngest, Nadia Chauhan, began to attend marketing meetings with his father at age 11. Officially, however, she began operations in 2002. For publishing major Ashok Malhotra succession planning was never an issue. Daughters, Monica Malhotra Kandhari and Sonic Malhotra took over the reins very early. A trade qualification, Monica explored her passion for publishing through participation in the family firm as a trainee in the MBD group’s publishing and piano at the age of 16. She is now the highest executive director MBD. While dealing with Sonic, managing director at MBD, and an MBA in finance from International Management Institute in France, three projects in hospitality and real estate, right from planning to execution and is also responsible for branding, positioning and help expansion plans for the group. Lara Balsara, joined father Sam Balsara’s Radison communications at age 26. Lara graduated from St. Xavier College in Mumbai and went to Britain to pursue his masters in Marketing from Bristol University. She came back and joined Madison as a trainee 2003rd She diversified the business even further and was responsible for the success of Madison Teamwork, and entertainment, Madison Retail Paradigm and Madison RKD retail / iq. Rangita Nandy Pritish Nandy’s father went PNC as a Management Trainee and has progressed to creative director of the company. She has been a producer of Bollywood films Chameli, Jhankar Beats, Shabd and Pyar ke side effects. Meghna Puri has been a part of the father Subhash Ghai’s Mukta Arts from the age of 16. She helped her father fulfill his dream of establishing an institute to teach film-making. Today she is president of the Institute – Whistling Woods International. She made her business management from King’s College, London 1999. DeVita Saraph joined her father’s Zenith Computers when she was a student. The Topper Laptop, Laptop Power of Seven scope Infotain II, Multiply and Topper Desktop are some of Zenith’s products were launched under her leadership. She currently spearheads Vu Technologies, a pioneer in the concept of luxury in technology. ” She is also managing director of Zenith Computers. Ashni Biyani, daughter of Kishore Biyani, got himself involved in the process of innovation and incubation division of Future Group at the young age of the 22nd She was educated at Queen Mary, studied at HR College in Mumbai, and did a course in textile design and design management.