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Lalita Gupte & Kalpana Morparia—93rd position—Joint

Managing Directors, ICIC Bank
Kalpana Morparia and Lalita Gupte are Joint Managing Directors of
ICIC Bank, the second largest bank of India. Lalita Gupte holds a
Master’s Degree in Management Studies from Jamnalal Bajaj
Institute of Management Studies. She joined ICIC Bank in 1971. Her
reason behind success is her supportive family. She got great support
from her husband and in laws.
Ms. Kalpana Morparia is a graduate in law from Mumbai University.
She joined ICIC in 1975 as a senior legal officer. In 1996, she became
General Manager. She became Executive Director in 2001. In 1999,
for her contribution in Finance and Banking sector in India, Indian
Merchants' Chamber awarded her.     
 

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Indu Jain belongs to the Sahu Jain family and is the current
chairperson of India's largest media group, Bennett, Coleman
& Co. Ltd., which owns the Times of India and other large
newspapers. Her net worth is said to be US$4.4 billion,
making her the 17th richest Indian in the world.[2] She is
widowed with two sons.

Indu Jain is Chairperson of The Times Group. She is a

spiritualist, an entrepreneur, an educationalist, a humanist, a
patron of art and culture. In her capacity as Chairperson of
The Times Group, Indu has since infused new energy into the
further growth of India's largest media house. The Times
Group publishes India's largest newspapers, which include
The Times of India, The Economic Times and Navbharat
Times. In addition, the group enjoys a dominant presence in
magazines, events, radio, the Internet and television. Indu's
eclectic cultural interests, social concerns and spiritual
inclinations have brought a whole new dimension to the
functioning of a conventional media house. The Times
Foundation, which she founded and carefully guides, has
garnered international acclaim for its, often pioneering,
activities in the field of development. An educationalist, par
excellence, she is President of Times Foundation. A humanist
to the core, under her direction, The Times Foundation runs -
Community Services, Research Foundation and Times Relief
Fund for disaster relief's like floods, cyclones, earthquakes
and epidemics. Indu's championing of women's causes is also
very well known. She actively supports women's rights,
women's uplift and the encouragement of entrepreneurship.
Indu is founder President of the Ladies wing of FICCI (FLO).
A patron of literature and culture, she is Chairperson of the
Bharatiya Jnanpith Foundation, which awards India's most
prestigious literary award, the Jnanpith, and supports
endeavours in the field of literature in every major Indian
language. She addressed the United Nations in 2000 at the
Millennium World Peace Summit of Religious and Spiritual
Leaders, a speech in which she stressed the need for oneness
among faiths and went on to chair a special session of the
conference. Ms Jain is also the guiding force behind The
Oneness Forum, formally launched by the President of India
in 2003. The Forum recently awarded the Mahatma-Mahavira
Awards to outstanding individuals from all of walks of life
and is involved in several activities that seek to bring, and
highlight, a sense of Oneness in the world. Spreading the
message of Peace Within First, Indu Jain spear heads a
movement to spread the principles of peace
globally. http://www.whereincity.com/india/great-
indians/women/indu-jain.php