Most Powerful Women in Business 2012

ARCHANA HINGORANI
Archana is the CEO of IL&FS Investment Managers. She has been with the IL&FS Group for 16 years and has worked on some of the pioneering private finance transactions in India. Her main focus over the last 14 years has been on private equity fund management. She is one of the founding members of the IL&FS private equity business and has overseen investments with an aggregate capitalization value in excess of US$ 10 billion. She leads an investment team of around 40 professionals. She is a Bachelor of Arts (Economics) with post-graduate qualifications in Management (MBA) as well as a Ph.D. in Corporate Finance from the University of Pittsburgh, USA. She is also a member of United Nations Environment Programme, Finance Initiative, Property Working Group.

ROOPA KUDVA
Roopa has been Executive Director of CRISIL Ltd since July 2005. Ms. Kudva joined CRISIL in 1992. She had previously worked for six years at Industrial Development Bank of India in the Project Finance department. Ms. Kudva serves as a Director of India Index Services & Products Ltd., EconoMatters, UK. and CRISIL MarketWire Ltd. Ms. Kudva has also worked in emerging markets in the Mediterranean and Middle Eastern countries during her secondment to Standard & Poor's, Paris, as Director, Financial Institutions Ratings. She served as a Director of National Commodity And Derivatives Exchange Limited until September 27, 2010. She holds a graduate degree in Statistics and a post-graduate diploma in Management from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.