Roopa Kudva, 

As the head of the country’s premier rating institution, Crisil, Kudva has the clout to decide how companies borrow money. She has over a decade’s experience in rating companies and debt instruments. Kudva realised that ratings alone would not help Crisil move ahead. In 2010, she redesignated the firm a global analytical agency. Today, more than 50% of revenue comes from global operations. Last year, Kudva bought Pipal Research to increase Crisil’s analytical footprint. She tied up with the NSE to initiate research on over 1,000 companies listed on the exchange and will offer the reports free of cost to about 3,500 registered users of Crisil’s website in a bid to develop a new equity research model