#12 Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

Rank 80

Founder, Chair, Biocon Ltd.

India's first biotech entrepreneur, Mazumdar founded Biocon in 1978 when she was just 25 years old after partnering with an Irish firm to create industrial enzymes. Biocon is the only the second Indian firm to list a $1 billion IPO on its first day of trading and is currently India’s eleventh-largest pharmaceutical company by market capitalization ($66.8 Billion). Big companies are partnering with Biocon for the development and commercialization of its oral insulin product IN-105, which is currently undergoing late-stage clinical trials. Other than featuring in this list, Shaw was recognized as India's Global Woman of the Year by Asia's healthcare magazine Pharmaleaders.

#11 Chua Sock Koong

Rank 74

Group CEO, SingTel

Koong's vision for her company SingTel is "To be Asia Pacific's best multimedia solutions group." With a customer base of 445 million, Singtel operations are spread in 26 countries and employ 23,000 individuals. Chua recently guided the company in launching superfast 4G mobile broadband services in Singapore and introducing PowerON Compute, a hybrid cloud computing service, in Singapore, Australia and Hong Kong. She started working in SingTel as a Treasurer in 1989, rising in the company to serve as CFO and Group CFO and CEO, International. She has always kept innovation high in the priority list and concentrates on bringing new talent into SingTel from outside industries.