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Shikha Sharma

Shikha Sharma

SHIKHA SHARMAShikha Sharma is Chief Executive Officer of AXIS Bank (Revenue of $5 billion and around 38,000 employees), India’s third largest bank in the private sector with 1,947 branches and 11,245 ATMs.

Shikha Sharma did her schooling at the Loreto Convent in Delhi. She is graduated in economics from the Lady Serum College, Delhi. She has a Post Graduate Diploma in Software Technology from the National Centre for Software Technology, Mumbai. She completed her MBA from the Indian Institute of Management- Ahmedabad.

Shikha Sharma started her professional career with ICICI Bank in 1980. She worked at ICICI Group for 29 years. In 1992, she set up ICICI Securities which is a joint venture of ICICI and J. P. Morgan. She set up various businesses for ICICI which included investment banking and retail finance. Shikha Sharma also served as the Director of ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Company till April 2009. Since 2009, she is the Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of AXIS Bank and Associate Director of AXIS Asset Management Company Limited.

Shikha Sharma launched an innovative micro insurance cover of 1 dollar a month for poor people in India at ICICI. She with her exceptional leadership qualities, made ICICI Prudential, the largest private insurance company in the country. Under her leadership, AXIS Bank’s assets grew 30% in 2012-2013 to $55 billion. She has more than doubled the AXIS bank’s network to 1,500 branches and 8,300-plus ATMs. Since she joined the company in June 2009, the stock has gained over 90%.

Shikha Sharma has been awarded ‘Woman Business Leader’ by CNBC TV18 in 2007. In 2009, she has received ‘Business Woman of the Year’ by Economic Times. In the year 2010, the Forbes magazine ranked her 89th in the list of ‘World’s 100 Most Powerful Women’. She is a recipient of many business awards notably; ‘Transformational Business Leader of the Year’ at AIMA’s Managing India Awards – 2012 and ‘Woman Leader of the year’ at Blooomberg – UTV Financial Leadership Awards – 2012 and Business world’s Banker of the Year Award – 2012.

She has been listed in prominent publications, such as Forbes List of Asia’s 50 Power Business Women – 2012, Indian Express Most Powerful Indians – 2012 and India Today Power List of 25 Most Influential Women – 2012.

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