Most Powerful Women in Business 2012

ARATHI KRISHNA
Ms. Arathi Krishna has been Joint Managing Director of Sundram Fasteners Ltd., since June 2010. Ms. Krishna served as the Managing Director of Sundram Fasteners Ltd., since May 3, 2006. She has been an Executive Director of Sundram Fasteners since May 3, 2006. Ms. Krishna is a Gold Medallist in Economics from Madras University and holds an MBA from Michigan University.

VINITA BALI
Vinita is MD at Britannia Industries. She was Managing Principal and Head of the Business Strategy at the group's Atlanta location. She left in 2005 to take up the position of CEO at Indian food company Britannia Industries where she was eventually appointed Managing Director in 2006. Under her direction, Britannia's revenue tripled to $841 million. Bali was awarded the "Business Woman of the Year" Award at the 2009 Economic Times Awards. In 2009 she founded the Britannia Nutrition Foundation which combats child malnutrition through the distribution of fortified biscuits to Indian schoolchildren. She won a Corporate Social Responsibility Award for her work with the foundation. In 2011 Forbes named her on its list of "Asia's 50 Power Businesswomen".