Arundhati Bhattacharya is an influencer

President & CEO at Salesforce, South Asia

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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40+ years of rich experience in India's financial sector working across varied roles and diverse national & international locations.

During her 4 years tenure as the first-ever woman Chair of State Bank of India, a Fortune 500 company, she has stamped her imprint on the financial world not just in India but globally as well.

She is credited with upscaling the Bank's technology initiatives in order to give this 212 year old largest bank of India (22% market share) a digital edge that has been acknowledged by Industry as path breaking. Her work in the area of Human Resources with special focus on the status of women and "challenged" members of the work force, has also been of special significance. Under her leadership of the bank was adjudged one of India's top 3 Best Places to work in India by leading Global Job site ‘Indeed' based on their 15 million reviews globally for most highly rated reviews on overall employee experience.

She also engineered the merger of the mother Bank with its six Associate banks creating an entity three times the size of its nearest competitor. The entire exercise was executed smoothly over a period of six weeks and was credited with being an operation that was completed with minimal or no disruption of customer service across its network of 22000 branches and 56000 ATMs as well as over 5000 franchisee outlets.

Forbes magazine has ranked her 25th in their list of "Most Powerful Women in the World" and 5th in "The Most Powerful Women in Finance" category in 2016. She has also been featured in the Fortune List of Top 50 globally most powerful women in business and ranked among the top 5 in the Asia-Pacific region. She was included in the top 100 Global Thinkers in 2014 by Foreign Policy Magazine and was one of the two Indians on the list. She has been ranked 26th in the fourth edition of Fortune's World 50 Greatest Leaders list, becoming the only Indian corporate leader to be featured in the list.

She has been outspoken in her views of not being driven by quarterly numbers to the detriment of long term strategy and goals.

She was MD & CEO of SBI's investment banking arm, SBI Capital Markets. Earlier, as Dy. Managing Director in SBI, she headed the largest Human Resources Department of the Banking Industry consisting of a work force of over 200,000+ employees, which includes 65,000 officers.

Ms. Bhattacharya is a postgraduate degree holder in English. She is also an Associate of the Indian Institute of Bankers.

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  • Salesforce

    Salesforce

    5 years 2 months

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      CEO & Chairperson, Salesforce India and South Asia

      Salesforce

      - Present 4 months

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      Chairperson & CEO Salesforce India

      Salesforce

      - Present 5 years 2 months

      Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

      Currently: Taken over as India lead for Salesforce with the mandate to shape the India story for this fast expanding company

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    SWIFT India

    - Present 6 years 2 months

    Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

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    Board Of Directors

    Reliance Industries Limited

    - Present 6 years 6 months

    Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

  • Wipro Limited Graphic

    Board Of Directors

    Wipro Limited

    - 1 year 5 months

  • Piramal Group Graphic

    Board Of Directors

    Piramal Group

    - 1 year 5 months

  • State Bank of India Graphic

    Chairman

    State Bank of India

    - 40 years 4 months

    Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

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