Arundhati Bhattacharya

Salesforce hired Arundhati Bhattacharya in 2020 to lead India—a role so new she wrote her own job description—luring the first woman to chair State Bank of India. "Finance to tech was a move that was never planned," she told Fortune, won over by Benioff's book and his equal-pay audits. Indian staff has grown from 2,500 past 17,000; its India revenue is now $1.5 billion. Now selling agentic AI across South and Southeast Asia, she says women must be "better than the best in order to be noticed."