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4. Falguni Nayar
Earlier Job: MD and chief executive, Kotak Mahindra Capital
Quit in: March 2012
Now runs: Online beauty and wellness retail firm Nykaa

Falguni Nayar entered the beauty and wellness business sector after being into the financial banking regime for more than two decades. Ex-Kotak Mahindra Capital managing director Falguni Nayar quit her job and commenced a new business with a small office where her father Vinodchandra Mehta ran a smallscale bearings business. "I am in a totally different world... I am engrossed with understanding consumer insights and managing uninterrupted product delivery," says Nayar.

 Keeping in mind Kishore Biyani’s important advice of constantly increase the average order size of a customer, Nayar is now getting ready to indulge the remaining amount of the initial investment of $2 million and wants to overcome the odds quickly.

Nayar further said, “I chose beauty and wellness as a focus segment for e-commerce based on Indian revenues of L'Oreal as well as sales of deodorants like Axe, Lakme and other personal care products at HUL,".

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