POWERFUL WOMEN
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Prev Rank: 43
Krithiga Reddy,
Country Head, Facebook Indiaage: 44
It has been a year of business for Facebook. The social media biggie helped push sales up by 60% for Ola in just six weeks and partnered with Nestlé to help it defend itself against growing competition in the dairy whitener segment. Reddy also hired Samsung’s Sandeep Bhushan as head for consumer and packaged goods in South Asia and the Oberoi Group’s Prasanjeet Dutta Baruah as business head of tech, telco, and new business. In terms of user growth, India is now the company’s second-biggest market, with 125 million users.
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