The Hurun Research Institute has published and updated India’s top ten wealthiest and richest women. These women, who come from various backgrounds, are achieving success in a variety of high-performing industry categories.
Here is a brief biography of these richest women in India that will reveal numerous details about their achievements and accomplishments.
1. Roshni Nadar Malhotra
Roshni Nadar Malhotra is the one and only child of Shiv Nadar, the owner of HCL and a millionaire industrialist. After her father resigned as chairperson of HCL Tech in July of this year, she was elected. She is the most successful lady in the Kotak Fortune Hurun – Leading Wealthy Women list, with a total wealth of Rs 54,850 crore. She is also the CEO and Executive Director of HCL Corporation, which owns HCL Tech and HCL Infosystems. Roshni earned a bachelor’s degree in communications from Northwestern University and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management. She previously worked and achieved as a news producer for Sky News UK and CNN America before joining HCL.
2. Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
Kiran Mazumdar was born to Gujarati parents on March 23, 1953, in Pune, Maharashtra. She attended Bishop Cotton Girl’s High School in Bangalore and graduated in 1968. She then attended Mount Carmel College in Bangalore, a women’s college affiliated with Bangalore University that offers pre-university studies. She studied biology and zoology, earning a bachelor’s degree in zoology from Bangalore University in 1973. Mazumdar intended to attend medical school but was unable to secure a scholarship. Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw is the founder, owner, and Managing Director of Biocon, a biopharmaceutical company situated in Bengaluru. Her fortune is estimated to be Rs 36,600 crore, according to the newspaper. She is also a part and member of the Infosys board of directors. Shaw is India’s first female business leader to sign the Giving Pledge. She was named the 2020 EY World Entrepreneur of the Year. John Shaw is her husband.
3. Leena Gandhi Tewari
Leena Gandhi Tiwari is a businesswoman and author from India. She is the Director of USV Private Limited, a multinational pharmaceutical and biotechnology firm headquartered in Mumbai. Her grandfather, Vithal Balkrishna Gandhi, founded USV in 1961. Tewari is one of India’s wealthiest people, with a net worth of $2.6 billion. He routinely appears on Forbes magazine’s list of the world’s wealthiest people. Her fortune is estimated to be around Rs 21,340 crore. USV, founded in 1961 by her grandfather Vithal Gandhi in collaboration with Revlon, generates almost 80% of its income in the local market.
4. Nilima Motaparti
Nilima Motaparti is the Director and board member (Commercial) of Divi’s Laboratories, a pharma-major. According to the report, she is reported to be worth Rs 18,620 crore. Motaparti joined Divi’s Lab in 2012, after more than five years of international expertise in the material requirement, planning, and finance. Her father founded Divi Laboratories and is the richest man in the Telugu states. Her father is described as an “Accidental Chemist” by Forbes India. Divis Lab launched its initial public offering (IPO) in 2003 for 140 rupees per share and has since gained success. Nilima Motaparti owns 20.34 percent of her company and is regarded as the richest woman in Telugu states.
5. Radha Vembu
Radha Vembu is Zoho founder Sridhar Vembu and has a controlling stake in the Chennai-based software development company Zoho Corporation. Her net worth is believed to be Rs 11,590 crore. Vembu is a married woman with one child who resides in Chennai, India.
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6 Jayshree Ullal’s
Jayshree Ullal is the CEO of Arista Networks, a cloud networking business valued at USD 16 billion. Her net worth is believed to be Rs 10,220 crore, according to the article. Before joining Arista, she was a Senior Vice President at Cisco, where she was in charge of a USD 10 billion company in data centers, switching, and services. Ullal started her Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) career and Fairchild Semiconductor, where she held technical and strategy responsibilities. Earlier joining Crescendo Communications, she was the Director of internetworking technologies at Ungermann-Bass for four years. Ullal rose to vice president of marketing at Crescendo, where he worked on 100-Mbit/s over copper, the first CDDI products, and first-generation Ethernet switching.
7. Renu Munjal
Renu Munjal is the Managing Director (MD)/ Owner of Hero FinCorp and the former Executive Director of Hero MotoCorp. She is the late Raman Munjal’s wife and is reported to be worth Rs 8,690 crore. She is involved in numerous CSR projects, including establishing and managing a K12 school and a vocational training center. She is also actively involved in projects aimed at empowering women. Renu Munjal was a founder member of BMU.
8. Malika Chirayu Amin
Malika Chirayu Amin is the owner, Managing Director, and Chief Executive Officer of Alembic Pharmaceuticals, based in Vadodara. According to the report, her net worth is believed to be Rs 7,570 crore.
9. Meher Pudumjee and Anu Aga
Anu Aga is the former chairperson of Thermax, a Pune-based engineering corporation. She ran the company from 1996 to 2004, when she handed it up to her daughter Meher Pudumjee. According to the study, they have a combined worth of Rs 5,850 crore. Anu Aga (born August 3, 1942) is an Indian millionaire entrepreneur and social worker who served as chairperson of Thermax, an energy and environmental engineering firm, from 1996 until 2004. She was one of the eight richest Indian women, and Forbes magazine named her one of the 40 richest Indians in 2007. ALL Ladies League, ASSOCHAM’s all-ladies branch, presented her with the Mumbai Women of the Decade Achievers Award.
10. Falguni Nayar and her family
Falguni Nayar is the creator and CEO of Nykaa, an online cosmetics and beauty store. Nykaa joined the unicorn club in April 2020, with the Mumbai-based retailer valued at USD 1.2 billion. According to the report, her net worth is believed to be Rs 5,410 crore. She served and was employed at Kotak Mahindra Capital Co. for 18 years before departing in 2012 to start her own business. Falguni founded Nykaa, an online multi-brand beauty retailer, in 2012. It is one of India’s major cosmetic internet brands.
