SHEROES Advisory Council

Vijay Shekhar Sharma is the founder & CEO of One97 / Paytm  – one of India’s largest growing mobile Internet & mobile commerce company.  Vijay also invests in early stage mobile Internet startups from his company’s One97 Mobility Fund. An avid admirer of great design, Vijay believes his ultimate moment is yet to arrive. He says and that too with a straight face, if not in his current job, he would have been singing along with Bono.

Indus Khaitan is an entrepreneur and has been in the startup space for close to two decades. Associated with startups like Tejit, Veritas, and more which were acquired by bigger giants, he went on to be a part of The Morpheus Accelerator in India. After the initials years at The Morpheus, he moved to co-found Bitzer Mobile along with Ali Ahmed and Naeem Zafar in the Silicon Valley.

Widely regarded as the pioneer of e-commerce innovations that redefined shopping and consumer behaviour in India, Binny is keenly aware of the power of women in the workplace and believes that an organisation’s sustained success and competitive edge rests in its ability to embrace a diverse talent pool.

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Abanti Sankaranarayanan leads the Strategy and Corporate Affairs functions at Diageo India. As head of Corporate Affairs, she is responsible for shaping and influencing alcohol policy, regulation and the role of alcohol in society, across 32 states and 9 Union Territories, in what is recognized as the most regulated and complex beverage alcohol market in the world. This market is core and strategic to not only Diageo globally, but also the beverage alcohol industry. She also leads strategy development and execution for Diageo’s business in India. Prior to her current role, Abanti was Managing Director, Diageo India Pvt Ltd, leading Diageo’s ambitious business mandate for international spirits in India. Under her leadership, Diageo’s brand portfolio in India delivered strong double-digit growth, high market share gains and robust brand equity enhancement. Abanti also spearheaded the complex, high-profile, organizational integration of businesses between United Spirits and Diageo in India with minimal business disruption.

Prior to Diageo, Abanti served as a member of the Tata Administrative Service (TAS) cadre since 1992, in an illustrious career where she held key roles managing some of the best known consumer brands of the Tata Group in India, United Kingdom and the United States. In her 17 year career with the Tata group, Abanti worked across various companies such as Tata Global Beverages, London, the Taj Group of Hotels- Mumbai & New York, Tata Housing & Tata Finance in Mumbai. Abanti serves on the CII National Committee on FMCG, is the Chairperson of the Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI) and is a member of the India Board of UK India Business Council and of the International Spirits & Wines Association of India (ISWAI), the industry body for domestic alcohol beverage producers in India. She is an Independent Director on the Board of Shoppers Stop Ltd. Her contribution to the business have been recognized by Fortune India (The Most Powerful Women in Business; 2012, 2014, 2015 and 2016), IMPACT (50 Most Influential Women in Media, Marketing and Advertising; 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017), India Today (India’s 25 Most Influential Women, 2013) and Fast Company, New York (100 Most Creative People in Business, 2012). Abanti is an Economics Graduate from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi and an MBA from Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad.