Five Indian American and three different Indian origin girls are amongst this 12 months’s 50 “CNBC Changemakers: Women Transforming Business,” an annual listing spotlighting girls whose accomplishments have left an indelible mark on the enterprise world.

Besides Indian American enterprise leaders Revathi Advaithi, Sandhya Ganapathy, Dr Geetha Murali, Ritu Narayan, and Aradhana Sarin, the listing options Svanika Balasubramanian, Dipali Goenka and Dr Suneeta Reddy from India.

“The women named to the inaugural CNBC Changemakers list are creating a pattern of what it takes to defy the odds, innovate and thrive in a volatile business landscape,” says CNBC.

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“From startup founders to S&P 500 C-suite growth drivers, from personalities shaking up the media industry to figures taking women’s sports further into the mainstream, the 2024 Changemakers have broken new ground and set the stage for others to follow,” it says.

“By focusing on women who left an indelible mark on the economy and business world in 2023, CNBC Changemakers recognizes the accomplishments of names in the news and many who have flown under the radar” it says.

Indian Americans on the listing are:

Revathi Advaithi, Flex, Chief Executive Officer

Notable in 2023: Advaithi solid a key Biden administration partnership on US/India relations and accelerated local weather tech and EV adoption.

Named CEO in February 2019 after beginning her profession as a shop-floor supervisor in Oklahoma, Advaithi has helped construct Flex into one of the crucial trusted manufacturing companions throughout a wide range of industries by embracing the corporate’s “do the right thing, always” ethos.

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Advaithi has additionally seemed to create stronger alliances between the non-public and public sector, resulting in manufacturing unit visits from President Joe Biden and US Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, in addition to her participation on the White House’s “Innovation Handshake” between the US and India and a state dinner for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

In March, she was named by Biden to the Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations. The visits from Biden and Granholm highlighted the function that Flex is enjoying within the clear power transition and the way forward for electrification.

Sandhya Ganapathy, EDP Renewables North America, Chief Executive Officer

Notable in 2023: Leveraged the Inflation Reduction Act to drive a clear power transition with numerous management.

Ganapathy sees her mission as serving to to create a cleaner nation – and a cleaner world. She took over the helm at EDP Renewables North America as CEO in 2022.

The Houston-based firm is without doubt one of the high 5 renewable power operators within the US, working 60 wind farms and 12 utility-scale photo voltaic parks.

The firm’s initiatives generate near 9 gigawatts of unpolluted power yearly, sufficient to energy about 2 million properties.

EDP Renewables North America has created greater than 1,000 jobs within the US and invested $17 billion in capital in native communities throughout the US, based on the corporate.

Dr Geetha Murali, Room to Read, Chief Executive Officer

Notable in 2023: Released a multimedia storytelling challenge to empower hundreds of thousands of ladies to create change.

Murali is main the hassle to fight illiteracy and gender inequality by way of growth of a love of studying in marginalized kids.

In 2023, the group launched She Creates Change, a multimedia storytelling challenge meant to broaden its attain by encouraging younger girls and women to create change in their very own communities and obtain instructional objectives.

The multimedia challenge, the primary of its form, tells tales through bodily books, reside motion and animated movies, utilizing methods from vivid summary imagery to claymation, and audio productions, with iterations in dozens of languages meant to achieve a broad viewers.

Room to Read says that as of 2024, it’ll have benefited the identical variety of kids over the previous 4 years because the group did throughout its first twenty.

Ritu Narayan, Zūm, Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Notable in 2023: Expanded faculty bus service to extra main cities and is transitioning to all-electric fleets.

Narayan struggled with managing her profession whereas ensuring her youngsters may get from level A to level B. So, she began Zūm, a transportation firm that focuses on college students whereas utilizing know-how to create extra environment friendly and environmentally pleasant routes.

Zūm raised $140 million in sequence E financing in early 2024, placing the corporate’s valuation at $1.3 billion. The firm at present serves hundreds of colleges, together with faculty districts in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle.

The firm supplies guardians with an app, which provides reside route notifications to and from faculty. Artificial intelligence has helped the corporate optimize drive instances, main youngsters to spend much less time on the bus.

The firm has additionally dedicated to having an all-electric fleet by 2027. The challenge consists of the Oakland Unified School District, which is able to turn into the primary main faculty district within the nation to have a 100% totally electrical faculty bus fleet in 2024.

Aradhana Sarin, AstraZeneca, Executive Director & Global Chief Financial Officer

Notable in 2023: Led offers to increase AstraZeneca’s drug pipeline, reworked finance operate to enhance worker retention and productiveness.

In November 2023, AstraZeneca launched its health-tech division Evinova. The enterprise makes use of digital know-how to develop scientific trials and medication supply.

AstraZeneca additionally acquired preclinical gene remedy packages and applied sciences from Pfizer in July 2023, particularly centered on uncommon ailments.

About 80% of the 7,000 uncommon ailments — which means affecting 200,000 or fewer folks — are based mostly on genetics. Gene remedy may treatment a few of these sicknesses.

Sarin took on the CFO function in 2022, becoming a member of from biopharma Alexion, and labored on Wall Street in funding banking for twenty years earlier than shifting into the pharmaceutical business.

She educated as a medical physician and handled sufferers in Tanzania and India earlier in her profession, and has an MBA from Stanford.

Three Indian origin girls on the listing:

Svanika Balasubramanian, rePurpose Global, Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer

Notable in 2023: Muscat, Oman based mostly firm collaborated with 300-plus shopper manufacturers to cut back plastic waste and enhance margins.

Dipali Goenka, Welspun Living, Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director

Notable in 2023:  Jaipur, India based mostly firm superior innovation, sustainability, and gender parity whereas reaching the $1 billion income milestone.

India-based dwelling textiles large’s merchandise are bought at retailers together with Walmart, Ikea, Costco, Kohl’s, Lowe’s, Macy’s and Home Depot, in addition to by way of offers with many main resort chains.

Suneeta Reddy, Apollo Hospitals Group, Managing Director

Notable in 2023: Spearheading the digital transformation and continued progress of India’s largest hospital system.

As part of the founding household which started with one hospital, Suneeta Reddy has performed a number one function in serving to Apollo Hospitals develop into an enormous participant on the Asian health-care panorama.

It’s the biggest built-in healthcare community in India, with 73 hospitals, a workforce of over 100,000, 6,000-plus pharmacies, over 200 clinics and over 2,200 diagnostic facilities, and 25 million customers on its digital well being platform.