Financial Express honours India’s top CFOs at a unique function
03 Apr 2017
The Financial Express honoured India's leading chief financial officers and companies at a unique initiative to celebrate excellence, best practices and outstanding achievements.
The awards are meant to recognise the outstanding financial performances of companies and appreciate the role that CFOs play.
The inaugural edition of the Financial Express-CFO of the Year Awards, held in Mumbai on 24 March at ITC Grand Central, Mumbai, saw 24 innovative companies, across small, medium and large enterprises in the manufacturing and services segments being recognised for their exemplary performance.
The evening also felicitated two inspiring leaders for their individual contributions to the Indian industry – YM Deosthalee, chairman, L&T Finance Holdings was awarded the Lifetime Achievement of the Year award; while R Shankar Raman, CFO and Director, Larsen & Toubro won the Newsmaker of the Year award.
Among the winning companies were TCS, Coal India, Bajaj Auto, Triveni Turbine, Rural Electrification Corporation, Bajaj Corp and others.
Leading economist and Niti Aayog member, Bibek Debroy was the chief guest at the evening, and gave away the awards.
The awards function brought together those empowered to drive innovation in their organisations - CEOs, COOs, CFOs and others in their capacity as CXOs or innovation heads.
The winners were selected by a high-powered jury headed by R Seshasayee, chairman of Infosys, YM Deosthalee, chairman of L&T Finance Holdings, Leo Puri, managing director of UTI Asset Management, Amit Chandra, managing director of Bain Capital and Pradip Shah, chairman of IndAsia Advisors.
