Accordingly our country's powerhouse mom is the MD, CEO and head of the corporate sector at India’s largest private bank, the ICICI Bank. She is other than Chanda Kochhar, who joined ICICI in 1984 and rose through the ranks to get to be the woman she is today, the recipient of the Padma Bhushan, a consistent feature on Fortune and Forbes lists of powerful women around the world, the Asian Business Leadership Forum Woman of Power Award for India, and a proud mother with equally proud children.
Presently under Kochhar’s leadership, the bank reported a 30% rise in profits in 2011/12, and won the “Best Retail Bank in India” award in 2001, 2003, 2004 and 2005 and “Excellence in Retail Banking Award” by the Asian Banker.
Moreover
she has two children, a son and a daughter, and she is fiercely private about
her personal life. Furthermore according to a Business Today interview, her
office does not have any trace of her family life except for a framed picture
of her daughter, Aarti, who she dotes on and is very proud of her mum.
