10 Women in Leadership Reshaping Asian Markets Right Now

Mayda Lim - Singapore

Designation: Managing Director, Head of Development Centre

Company Name: OCBC Bank

Mayda Lim, a Managing Director and Head of Strategy & Business Management at OCBC Group Operations & Technology, is at the forefront of driving digital transformation across the regional software centres. Mayda combines strategic thought and execution. Her career includes many diverse experiences and roles at Thomson Reuters, Exel Logistics, Ford, and ANZ. Mayda has strong technical and operational experience, particularly in her prior leadership roles in the ANZ Technology campus in China and global operations. Mayda's transformation strategy indicated her growth mindset and creativity in driving organisational change. As a passionate spokesperson for diversity in tech, Mayda has received various awards, including Singapore Women in Technology's Top 100 Honouree and the Tech Talent Builder Award as recognition of her leadership, mentorship, and vision.

Shruti Kashyap - India

Designation: Vice President

Company Name: Hindustan Unilever

Shruti Kashyap is the ambitious CIO of Hindustan Unilever and Head of IT for South Asia and is known for leading pivotal digital transformations, including the HUL–GSK merger about the pandemic and the award-winning Shikhar retailer app. With a BTech from IGIT and an MBA from NITIE, Mumbai, she progressed in her career through cross-functional sales, digital marketing, and IT strategy roles over 10 years at HUL with her personal traits of resilience, flexibility, and strategic agility. Her style of leadership revolves around merging entrepreneurship with scalability, advocating risk-taking, diversity and inclusion, as well as a startup mentality within a large global FMCG business . Shruti is an inspiration as a tech leader who creates impact, balances ambition with empathy and which defines success not as permanence but rather as creating better teams and systems to left the world we understand as industry.