#5 Rajshree Pathy

Twitter Handle: @RajshreePathy

Rajshree Pathy is the Chairperson and Managing Director of the Rajshree Group of Companies and Founder of India Design Forum. Rajshree group has varied interests like Food and Agro business, Energy, Real Estate, Travel, Health and Hospitality and Arts. Under the Agro and Food business, Rajshree Sugars and Chemicals Ltd Company specialize in integrated fields such as Sugar, Distillery, Power Co-Generation and Biotechnology. The range of products includes White Crystal Sugar, Alcohol, Organic Manure, Bio-products and Power. She also promotes performing arts and contemporary art movement in Coimbatore through the Contemplate Art Gallery and COCCA and her family is actively engaged in charities and educational institutions for more than a century.

#4 Radhika Roy

Twitter Handle: @radhikaroyndtv

Radhika Roy is a Co-Chairperson and Managing Director of NDTV. She has over ten years of experience in print journalism, with leading publications such as “Indian Express” and “India Today”. A former speech pathologist, Radhika Roy pursued her dream of becoming a journalist and transformed a garage-startup production company into an internationally renowned news operation comprising three channels and over 1,000 employees. In 2003, Roy launched NDTV24x7 (English language) and NDTV India (Hindi channel) and in the same year she won the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award for Information, Communication and Entertainment.

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