Radhika Piramal

Radhika Piramal is the Executive Vice Chairperson of VIP Industries Ltd., India's #1 Luggage Company. Ms. Piramal has been Executive Vice Chair since April 2017. Prior to this role, Ms. Piramal was the Managing Director of VIP Industries from 2010 - 2017 and she worked in various sales and marketing roles in VIP from 2000 - 2004. Outside of VIP, she worked as a management consultant with Bain & Company in New York from 2006 - 2008. Ms. Piramal is integral to revitalizing VIP Industries through several brand launches. She re-launched Skybags as a youth brand in 2011 and Skybags is now India's largest luggage and backpack brand. She expanded the company's product range from luggage to handbags by launching Caprese handbags in 2012 and Caprese is now one of India's top 2 handbag brands. Radhika was recognized in Economic Times India's 40 under 40 Business Leaders in 2015. She won the 'ET Panache Trendsetter Award, 2016' and also received CNBC-TV18's Award for Young Business Woman in the same year. She received the coveted Business Today's India's Most Powerful Women award for three consecutive years in 2015, 2016 and 2017. She featured on the Forbes India's list of 'W-Power Trailblazers in 2017 and also in Verve's (EM)Power List 2018. She has a BA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Brasenose College, University of Oxford (2000) and an MBA from the Harvard Business School (2006). She serves as an independent director on the board of Chalet Hotels Ltd., a leading hotels company in India. She is a Fellow of the seventh class of the Kamalnayan Bajaj Fellowship and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. Radhika Piramal is India's only openly lesbian business leader and is a prominent speaker on issues of LGBTQ inclusion. She is married and she and her wife divide their time between Mumbai and London.