New Delhi, March 5: Ahead of International Women’s Day on March 8, Forbes India has released a its “W-Power Trailblazers” issue this weekend, featuring 25 women stars, on the ascendancy in business.
#ForbesIndiaWPower | Our Latest Issue will be on stands this week
Check out the full 2018 W-Power Trailblazers list here: https://t.co/76EAKLVFSy pic.twitter.com/AOPuP8gs4B
— Forbes India (@forbes_india) March 5, 2018
The 25 women stars included names like Adhuna Bhabani(Founder-director, BBlunt), Anu Acharya (CEO, Mapmygenome India) , Anupriya Acharya (CEO (India), Publicis Media), Arunima Patel (Managing director, iGenetic Diagnostics), Chiki Sarkar (Publisher, Juggernaut Books), Dina Wadia & Shivpriya Nanda (Joint Managing Partners, J Sagar Associates), Dr Kavitha Sairam (Co-founder, FIB-SOL Life Technologies), Hemalatha Annamalai (Founder & CEO, Ampere Vehicles Pvt Ltd), Malini Agarwal (Founder and creative director, MissMalini Entertainment), Manisha Raisinghani(Co-founder and chief technology officer, LogiNext Solutions), Neha Bagaria (Founder, JobsForHer), Neha Juneja(Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Greenway Grameen Infra), Nisha Dutt (CEO, Intellecap), Nivruti Rai (Country head, Intel India, vice president of Data Centre Group), Padmaja Ruparel (President, Indian Angel Network; Managing partner, IAN Fund), Prerna Mukharya (Founder & CEO, Outline India), Rashmi Daga (Founder & CEO, FreshMenu), Renu Satti (MD & CEO, Paytm Payments Bank), RM Vishakha (MD and CEO, IndiaFirst Life Insurance), Shradha Sharma (Founder and CEO, YourStory Media), Shilpa Sharma (Co-founder, and head of curation and retail, Jaypore), Shubhra Chadda (Co-founder and head of products, Chumbak), Suhani Mohan (Co-founder and CEO, Saral Designs), Tina Singh (Chief Digital Officer, Mahindra Finance), and Wilma Rodrigues (Founder & CEO, Saahas Waste Management)
“We need to specify that this is not a ranking but a qualitative selection — a grouping of ground breakers, game-changers and innovators working across diverse sectors such as technology, law, banking, insurance, media, biotech and the startup sector,” Forbes India said in a statement.
“Mandated quotas smack of tokenism, and we have as many women who favour reservations as those who would like merit to be the decider,” said Brian Carvalho, Editor of Forbes India, referring to the lack of women on company boards.
“With the overwhelming response that we received for the first edition of W-Power last year, a second edition was imminent. This issue is unique because of the methodology used in selection of the leaders. We believe that this list cannot be ranked hence we adopt a qualitative approach,” said Joy Chakraborthy, CEO-Forbes India and President-Revenue, Network18.
The final list of 25 was identified based on jury votes.
