An equal music: A brigade of Indian women CEOs is steering global companies through a pandemic

Women of Indian origin are currently at the helm of several global companies – be it Anjali Sud, the CEO of Vimeo, Sonia Syngal who is leading the GAP Inc or Leena Nair, the newly appointed CEO-designate of Chanel. They are not only redefining the spheres of technology, business operations, manufacturing and innovation, but also inspiring generations of women to take up leadership roles. They are deconstructing gendered workspaces, and revolutionising existing company cultures, making them more inclusive and accessible. Here’s a list of such women leaders who are calling the shots. Fashioning A New Runway Leena Nair will take the top seat at Chanel from January next year after a career of three decades with British consumer-goods packaged food giant, Unilever PLC. She was reportedly poached by the French luxury brand as it strived to overcome its pandemic slump. Nair is a rank outsider in the field of luxury fashion, and that has been a topic of many media articles. However, she has been the person to do several things for the first time in her previous organisation too. At Unilever, she was “the first female, first Asian, youngest ever” chief human resource executive. She had championed for equal…
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