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Winners of Awards 2005 - 06
Lifetime Achiever | Best Professional | Best Entrepreneur | Young Achiever
The ‘flood’ is swelling
AMRITA PATEL ( Winner of Lifetime Achiever )
 If India is the largest producer of milk in the world today, a good share of the credit should go to Dr Amrita Patel, chairman, National Dairy Development Board (NDDB). She was part of the team that conceptualised and more importantly, implemented ‘Operation Flood’ - a national dairy development programme - that helped promote, finance and deliver a variety of supporting services to a national cooperative dairy structure. It also contributed significantly in increasing the per capita availability of milk in India by increasing producers income in both relative and real terms, increasing animal productivity, better husbandry and feeding practices.
The results are there for all to see. The cooperative milk procurement has now crossed 20 million kg per day, according to the recently released annual report of NDDB for the year 2004-05. The trend, until the early 1960s, was very different. It was one of stagnation in production and decline in per capita availability, particularly of milk and milk products. What changed this was the Indian dairy farmer empowered and enabled by the resources - human, material and financial - made available through ‘Operation Flood’.
Apart from increasing milk production, Dr Patel placed a major emphasis on women's education as part of the co-operative development programme
Men were educated about the role of women in dairying while women were motivated to join dairy co-operatives and assert their rights as member. They were also encouraged to stand for membership of managing committees and in some states co-operatives and unions began to reserve seats on their boards for women. Today, over 6,000 out of the 70,000 dairy co-operative societies in India are women's societies. The percentage of women members has risen from about 14% a decade ago to over 20% . There have been small increases in the numbers of women serving on co-operative managing committees as well as in paid positions. Considering her contribution, government conferred on her "Padma Bhushan". She was also given XLRI Fellow in Management by the XLRI, Jamshedpur for outstanding and lifetime contribution in forging the Cooperative Movement among the milk producers among other awards.
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Reaching for the sky
NAINA LAL KIDWAI ( Winner of Best Professional )
 Armed with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics (Honors) from Lady Sri Ram in 1977, Chartered Accountant from the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Delhi (1977-80) and a Master in Business Administration (1982) from the Harvard Graduate school of Business Administration, Naina Lal Kidwai had just the right foundation to build a career as one of India's most influential investment bankers.
Born in 1957 and raised in Mumbai and Delhi, Naina Lal Kidwai went to school in Simla. Kidwai topped her class every year in secondary school and was chosen as the school captain. During her BA degree at the Delhi University, she was elected president of the student union. She also won leadership award from the university. At Harvard, she was the first Indian woman to graduate from the Harvard Business School.
Kidwai's first job was with Price Waterhouse as an associate between 1977-79. She then joined the ANZ Grindlays Bank (now Standard Chartered Bank) in India in 1982. She got her first lessons as a professional from her father who was the CEO of a leading insurance company. Within three years, she was heading Grindlays's western regional operations for investment banking. In 1989, she was promoted to head the entire division. At ANZ, she went through several assignments in merchant, retail, and investment banking before moving to Morgan Stanley in 1994.
Even at Harvard, Kidwai was convinced she wanted to return to India to work. Not only because it was her home but also because she believed she could contribute to India's progress through her work in investment banking and privatisation.
At Morgan Stanley, she led Wipro's listing on the NYSE and in the merger of the telecom businesses of Tata and Birla groups into Idea Cellular. She is currently the deputy chief executive officer of HSBC in India with overall responsibility for HSBC's interests in India and direct responsibility for investment banking, corporate banking, institutional banking and custodial services of the bank. Earlier, as vice-chairman and managing director at HSBC Securities and Capital Markets, she was responsible for directing the securities broking, trading, research and investment banking businesses of the firm. Married and the mother of two, Kidwai follows Western and Indian classical music and enjoys trekking and wildlife in the Himalayas.
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The touch that heals
PRATIKSHA NAMJOSHI ( Winner of Best Entrepreneur )
 Why have a disease when you can prevent it? That's the motto driving Dr. Pratiksha Namjoshi, director, IPC Heartcare Centre. Also, India's 1st woman Preventive Cardiologist and pioneer in non-surgical heart treatment-Non-invasive cardiology in India.
More than 6 crore people suffer from heart disease in India and almost 80% of them cannot afford treatment because it is too expensive. In an attempt to improve the heart disease scenario in India, she took up the challenge to introduce prevention and affordable, non-invasive cardiac treatments for the masses. She wanted to set up a facility that did not require investment of hundreds of crores. She joined preventive medicine and specialised in Cardiology and oncology though she had the option of choosing any of the other glamorous fields of medicine. Her objective was to educate people on the path of prevention while providing cost-effective non-invasive treatment to heart patients. Born on January 19, 1971, Dr Namjoshi passed out of KEM and Sion Medical College, Mumbai. She founded the Institute of Preventive Cardiology, now called IPC Heartcare Centre.
IPC has a holistic approach towards heart treatment focused on preventing heart attacks and reversing heart diseases through continuous education, early detection and non- invasive treatment thereby reducing the incidence of coronary artery disease and eradication of premature deaths and disability.
It focuses on the root cause of the disease. It also uses non-invasive diagnostic tests like 3D cartography, stress test and 2D Echo. Treatments are done by advance medication coupled with lifestyle changes like dietary balance, stress management, exercise, yoga, meditation and cardiovascular fitness through individual counseling & group treatment workshops. IPC Heartcare Centre has 5 branches in India. It will shortly open its first overseas branch. She has been instrumental in expanding the organisation with support from her patients. She also trains doctors in the field of non-invasive cardiology. Dr Namjoshi holds seminars and workshops on prevention and treatment of heart diseases, blood pressure, diabetes and cholesterol. More than 70 case studies are published on IPC Heartcare website www.ipc-india.com . There are more than 500 case studies to support them. IPC has a technical collaboration with the prestigious Arterial Disease Clinic, UK. Dr Namjoshi is also a certified member of the American College of Advance Medicine (ACAM) and the American Academy of Anti-aging Medicine.
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Born to excel
MEHER PUDUMJEE ( Winner of Young Achiever )
 Born on 11th October 1966 to Rohinton and Anu Aga, Meher Pudumjee completed her post graduation in Chemical Engineering from the Imperial College of Science & Technology, London. In August 1990 she joined Thermax as a trainee engineer and in about a year's time took over the responsibility of managing Thermax's subsidiary company in the UK, along with her husband.
She returned to India in 1996 and in September that year she was appointed to the Board of Directors of Thermax Ltd. She became a non-executive director in 2001. When she was elevated as vice-chairperson in 2002, Meher had to see through one of the most turbulent times - both personally and professionally. On one hand, she had to cope up with the deaths of her father Rohinton and 25-year-old brother Kurush while on the other work to revive the company's performance which had slipped badly. The stock price of Thermax had crashed to a low of Rs 36 from a high of Rs 400.
She, along with her mother Anu Aga who was then the chairperson of Thermax, turned the company around by taking some tough decisions including revamping of the entire board, complete overhauling of the top management and bringing in a performance culture into the company.
Meher took over as the chairperson of Thermax in October 2004 after Anu Aga decided to hang up her boots. She was then just 37 years old and had already put in 14 years of work in the company. Aided by her experience in pulling Thermax out of dire straits and a very committed team, she took Thermax to even greater heights.
Under her leadership, the company has made it to the Forbes' list of Asia's
Best Under a Billion for 2005. It has since crossed the Rs 1000 crore turn over mark. Thermax continues to be in the list of best companies to work for in India and in 2004-05 it was ranked third in the Business Today-Mercer study.
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The Jury - Awards 2005 - 06
» Anu Aga, Director, Thermax
» Ranjana Kumar, Vigilance Commissioner, CVC
» Zia mody, Senior Partner, AZB Partners
» A.K. Purwar, Chairman, SBI
» Shekhar Gupta, Editor-in-Chief + Group CEO, Indian Express Group
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