5 Successful Women In Technology From India
Vanitha Narayanan, MD, IBM India
Neelam Dhawan, MD, HP India
This 55-year
old executive is a perfect example of thinking out-of-the-box. For instance, at a time, when PCs were not
advertised on hoardings, Dhawan in 1986 launched the first affordable PC called
the HCL BusyBee. Not only did she launch it, she also went a step further by
advertising the product (read PCs) on hoardings and in newspapers.
Next such
bold step was taken in the 1990s, when she set up India’s first network channel
for Tier-II towns, to sell IBM machines. This was followed by her joining HP in
1999. She is credited for getting HP its first two outsourcing contracts in
2003, at a time when the BPO industry was blooming at its best. She later moved
to Microsoft India, and once again returned to HP in 2008 as its India head.
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Kumud Srinavasan, President, Intel India
Kumud Srinivasan has been with
the company for over 25 years. In her 25 years experience, she has gradually
risen in ranks through her sheer hard work and her ability to befit any role
assigned to her. She has not only held several business positions in the firm’s
manufacturing organization, but also had information systems positions within the
company’s IT organization. Prior to becoming India head, Kumud was Vice President
and General Manager of IT for Silicon Software and Services, thus, spearheading
the growth of digital literacy and consumer market for electronics. Not
just this, she has also headed Intel’s
internal full-service consulting practice. No wonder, she became the first
woman to head Intel’s operations in India.
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Raji Arasu, Vice President and CTO, Stubhub
Raji Arasu
started her career at a time when computer engineering didn’t have many women.
But this didn’t deter her from pursuing her dreams. She started her career in
the field of software development, in the US, in the early 1990s. She led
technology teams with a specialization in online commerce and payments in
several companies including Oracle. Arasu’s expertise helped her become the Vice
President of engineering for trading with eBay. She has been credited for
tackling problems which involved scalability, traffic and payments for the
website. Later, she went on to become VP and CTO of StubHub, a subsidiary of
eBay. But apart from being an industry crackerjack, Arasu is also an activist
and passionately works for women in the tech space.
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Aruna Jayanthi, CEO, Capgemini India
Aruna Jayanthi was appointed as the CEO of the Indian
arm of the company in 2011 and is responsible for company operations across all the business units. It includes
consulting, technology and outsourcing services in India. Throughout her
career, Jayanthi has won many accolades—right from being ranked the fourth most
powerful business woman in India in 2011 to earning the third spot in 2012 by
Fortune magazine. The veteran is also an executive council member of the
industry body NASSCOM.
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