Mumbai: Bharat Doshi, executive director (finance and corporate affairs), Mahindra & Mahindra, was adjudged the best CFO at the Business Today ''best CFO awards'', instituted by the magazine in association with Ambit RSM.

P Chidambaram, Union Finance Minister, and the Chief Guest at the ceremony, gave away the awards for which 14 CFO''s were shortlisted, based on an analysis of the financial performance of their respective companies.
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The thirteen other CFOs who were also awarded include:

• Sanjiv Bajaj, executive director, finance, Bajaj Auto;
  
• S G Joglekar, vice president, finance, Bharat Forge;
  
• Mehernosh B Kapadia, senior executive director, GlaxoSmithkline Pharmaceuticals;
  
• D D Rathi, whole time director and CFO, Grasim Industries;
  
• Ravi Sud, vice president, finance, Hero Honda Motors;
  
• K Vaidyanath, executive director, ITC;
  
• TV Mohandas Pai, director-finance, administration and CFO, Infosys Technologies;
  
• S Rajagopalan, CFO, Monsanto India;
  
• P K Mukherjee, director, finance, Sesa Goa;
  
• H.G. Gelis, executive director, finance, Siemens;
  
• Koushik Chatterjee, vice president, finance, Tata Iron & Steel Co.;
  
• Praveen P Kadle, executive director, finance and corporate affairs, Tata Motors
  · Robin Banerjee, executive director, finance, Thomas Cook, India.