Meena Ganesh is the MD & CEO of Portea Medical and the former CEO and MD of Pearson Education Services, the world’s largest education company providing professional certification, curriculum materials, multimedia learning tools and testing programmes to over 100 million people worldwide. Prior to this, Meena was the CEO of Tesco’s operations in India, the Tesco Hindustan Service Center, the world’s third largest retailer with a revenue base of nearly $100bn and 400,000 people. She was on the Global Retail Council of Tesco, an elite group of about 50 people who run the operations of Tesco worldwide and has the distinction of being the only Indian, and one amongst four women on this Council. She co-founded one of India's pioneering BPO companies Customer Asset which she sold to ICICI OneSource. During her five-year association with Microsoft India‚ she set up multiple business units for them‚ including Microsoft Consulting’s‚ Internet and Application Development/Business services units. Business Week rated her as one of the most powerful women in India.