No.393
GASOCHEM
International CEO: Charu Jain
Category: Manufacturing
Three-year revenue growth: 1,469%
• Charu Jain, 45, has had to jump through some pretty exacting hoops to win customers such as Ecolab, the USDA, and the U.S. Navy. Still, the biggest barrier to her ambition was actually living with her back in her native India: her own family. Jain had to leave them all behind to carve out her slice of the $500 billion U.S. chemicals market with the bulk
