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Arundhati Bhattacharya is CEO and chairperson of Salesforce India. She has over 40 years of experience in India's financial sector working across varied roles. She has also broken the glass ceiling among Indian public sector banks, rising to become the first woman chairperson of the State Bank of India, the country's largest lender. She retired from SBI in 2017, and joined Salesforce in 2020. She is also currently a non-executive direction with Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL), and the chairperson of the Board of Governors of the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Sambalpur.
Arundhati Bhattacharya is CEO and chairperson of Salesforce India. She has over 40 years of experience in India's financial sector working across varied roles. She has also broken the glass ceiling among Indian public sector banks, rising to become the first woman chairperson of the State Bank of India, the country's largest lender. She retired from SBI in 2017, and joined Salesforce in 2020. She is also currently a non-executive direction with Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL), and the chairperson of the Board of Governors of the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Sambalpur.
Budget 2026 sketches an ambitious AI- and cloud-led growth model, but sustained R&D investment will be crucial if India is to become a creator, not just a consumer, of technology
AI is no longer a futuristic concept - it is an economic multiplier
This Budget has taken steps to ease access to educational loans
The continued focus on increased capital investments will result in generation of employment opportunities and thereby growth of the economy