Most finance candidates a board considers have prepared financial statements. Padmavati Krishnan has spent the larger part of her career pricing them. She has headed an asset-management business running USD 200 million, won an international award for fund performance, carried full P&L responsibility for a USD 80 million multi-entity portfolio, and worked on both a two-company merger and an IPO from the inside. She comes to a board from the buy side of the table.