The Power Women

As women continue to scale newer heights in every field, we write an ode to 20 great women in the Indian financial sector.

- Nirmala Konjengbam, Aparajita Gupta And Deepika Asthana

USHA SANGWAN

MD, LIC of India

Sangwan is the first ever woman Managing Director of Life Insurance Corporation (LIC). A Post Graduate in Economics, Post Graduate Diploma holder in Human Resource Management and licentiate from Insurance Institute of India, she joined the company as Direct Recruit Officer in 1981. Since then, Sangwan has worked in all core areas of life insurance and her expertise lies in analytics, strategy, execution, people skill, customer centricity, use of technology (particularly in marketing and servicing) and setting up of systems. At LIC, she is instrumental in starting direct marketing channel, SMS-based helpline, online sales of policies, app-based services and social media promotions. Further, she has institutionalised many corporate communication activities and taken several initiatives in marketing, to create role model agents in every branch.

VANI KOLA

Managing Director (MD), Kalaari Capital