Mallika Srinivasan


Mallika Srinivasan is the Chairman & Managing Director of Tractors and Farm Equipment Limited, a tractor major incorporated in 1960 at Chennai, India. She is additionally on the Global Board of U.S.-India Business Council, and the Boards of AGCO Corporation - United States and Tata Steel Limited. She is a member of the Executive Board of the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, the Governing Board of the Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, Bharathidasan Institute of Management, Trichy, and a member of the Governing Body of Stella Maris College, Chennai.

Professional

Mallika established TAFE as a mass manufacturer of tractors. She led the company's growth to its present status with revenues of INR 96 billion with diverse interests in tractors, farm machinery, diesel engines, engineering plastics, hydraulic pumps and cylinders, batteries, automobile franchises and plantations. Mallika has led a variety of industry bodies such as the Tractor Manufacturers’ Association of India, The Madras Chamber of Commerce and has held various positions in industry bodies such as the Confederation of Indian Industry, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, etc.

Philanthropy

She has an abiding interest in ensuring development of education and healthcare in India and has been instrumental in supporting organizations such as the Sankara Nethralaya, the Cancer Hospital in Chennai and a number of educational and healthcare facilities in Alwarkurichi, Tirunelveli district in South India. In addition, she has been a generous patron of arts through her involvement in the promotion and support of one of India's leading musical tradition of Carnatic music through the Indira Sivasailam Foundation.

Academics

She earned her degree in Mathematics from the Women's Christian College and later was a university gold-medalist in Econometrics from the University of Madras, she graduated as a member of the Dean's Honor List, and the Alpha Beta Gamma Society, from the Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania, United States, and was ranked as one of its top 125 most successful alumni.

Awards and accolades

Srinivasan has received a number of accolades and awards. In 2011, she was voted Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst and Young; awarded the Woman Leader of the Year award by Forbes India; and recognised by Forbes Asia as one of the Top 50 Asian Power Businesswomen. She was named among the six Most Powerful Women of India Inc. by Business Today, while the Asian Business Leadership Forum honoured her with the ABLF Woman of Power Award. NDTV Profit, India's leading business television channel, accorded her the honor of Business Thought Leader of the Year 2012 Award, at the NDTV Profit Business Leadership Awards. In 2018, she was ranked fifth among India's Most Powerful Women in Business by Fortune India.


YearAwards and HonorsAwarding OrganizationReference
1999First Business Woman of the Year award for IndiaBBC
2005Zee Astitva Award for Exemplary WomenZee TV
2005National Leadership AwardIIM Lucknow- Lakshmipat Singhania award
2005-06Business Woman of the year AwardThe Economic Times
2007Selected as one of the few in the Wharton's 125 influential people and ideasWharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania
2004-10Among 25 Most Powerful Women in Indian Business - for 7 consecutive yearsBusiness Today
2010Among 25 Power WomenIndia Today Woman
2010India Inc's Most Powerful Women LeadersThe Economic Times Corporate Dossier
2011Entrepreneur of the year - ManufacturingErnst & Young
2012Among top 6 Most Powerful Women of India IncBusiness Today
2012Ranked Among Asia's 50 Power BusinesswomenForbes Asia
2012India Inc's Most Powerful CEOs 2012 Top Women CEOsThe Economic Times
2012Forbes India Leadership Awards 2012 Women Leader of the YearForbes India
2012Doctor of Letters Hindustan University of Technology & Science, Chennai
2012Ranked 2nd among India's 50 Most Powerful Women in BusinessFortune India
2012ABLF Woman of Power AwardAsian Business Leadership Forum Awards
2013India Today's Power List – The InfluencersIndia Today
2013Business Thought Leader of the Year 2012NDTV Profit Business Leadership Awards
2014Padma Shri for Trade and IndustryGovernment of India
2014Among The Most Powerful Women in Indian Business – Hall of FameBusiness Today
2014Ranked among India's Most Powerful WomenFemina
2014Ranked among India's Most Powerful WomenFortune Asia
2014Ranked among Most Powerful Women in Indian BusinessFortune India
2015Conferred the Sir Jehangir Ghandy MedalXLRI - Xavier School of Management
2016Among BBC 100 Power Women 2016British Broadcasting Corporation
2016Conferred the Devi AwardThe New Indian Express
2017Honorary Doctorate of Science Tamil Nadu Agricultural University
2018Ranked fifth among India's Most Powerful WomenFortune India

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