10 Indian American Women Grace’s Forbes’ Elite List

Forbes is one of the most celebrated magazines of all time. Every year the magazine releases a list of people who did exceptionally well in their field. Forbes has released the list of ’50 over 50′ and a total of 10 Indian American women featured in that list. The list includes a total of 200 women divided into four groups of different categories having 50 women each. These categories are lifestyle, impact, innovation and investment.

The highest number of Indian American women featured in the investment list. Geeta Aiyar, founder and president, Boston common Asset Management, Mala Gaonkar, SurgoCap Partners, Ranji Nagaswami, Strategic Value Partners and Purnima Puri, HPS Investment Partners made it to the list.

On the impact list, Sarita Mohanty, Ghazal Qureishi and S. Mona Sinha made it to the list. This list includes big names like Gloria Steinem and Fanni Willis.

Alka Joshi got featured on the lifestyle list. This list also has huge names like Jamie Lee Curtis, Viola Davis etc. Alka published her debut novel, ‘The Henna Artist’ in 2020 which became an international bestseller.

On the innovation list, Monica Jain, founder of Fish 2.0 and Padmasree Warrior, former CTO of Cisco and Motorola, found their place. Nobel laureate Carolyn Bertozzi is one of the highlights of this list.