Verve’s Power Women: Chanda Kocchar

Chanda Kocchar
53, Path-breaking Banker

When the managing director and chief executive officer of the ICICI Bank speaks, everyone listens — her clout was evident at the Congress Centre at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The woman, who shaped retail banking in India ever since the 1990s and is always resplendent in an elegant sari, has led the bank to remarkable heights and continues to reach out to the masses with her banking advances in rural areas. When young women ask her for advice, Chanda Kochhar urges, ‘Don’t give up on something just because you think you can’t do it.’