Carving A Niche In A Man's World

She may have been outshouted in a male-dominated industry like cement, but outperforming her was never easy

- Mahua Venkatesh

BINA ENGINEER JOINED Sanghi Industries 21 years ago in 1997 as deputy general manager of project finance. She steadily rose up the ladder and in 2006, she was inducted on the board. Engineer, who went to a Gujarati medium school, has also served as member of FICCI finance committee and ICAI Infrastructure Study Group. She was awarded the CA CFO Woman Award by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) in 2016.

A proud Engineer points out that she was inducted on the board almost a decade before companies were mandated by law to have a woman director on the board.

She joined the company at a time when one of ts projects was dragged into litigations and incurred huge costs. “Most people had written us off. It was only the perseverance and sincerity of the Sanghi team that took us through and we could overcome the odds and raise funds for project completion.”