In our conversation with Manisha, she talks her journey: Becoming a CEO at a young age of 33, from Pizza Runs to climbing to the top, how a woman's career is just as important as a man's, how people wouldn't shake her hands in meetings, her hardwork during the initial years of her career and much more!

Manisha Girotra - CEO at Moelis India who was previously the CEO and Country Head of UBS in India managing its investment bank, commercial bank, markets, equity research and wealth management divisions. 

She was also Head – North India of Barclays Bank. Girotra began her investment banking career in the corporate bank at ANZ Grindlays. She was honored as a Young Global Leader in 2010 by the World Economic Forum and was named one of the “15 Women to Watch in Asia” by Forbes in 2008 and one of the “50 Women to Watch” in the annual Wall Street Journal survey in 2007. She has appeared in Business Today's “25 Most Powerful Women in Business in India” for the past five years as well as Fortune India's “50 Most Powerful Women in Business” in 2014.