Today's pragmatic business world is effectively led by technology and innovation in business functions. As technology remains prime, it becomes extremely critical to overlook the efficacy of technology in leading business operations, hence all C-suite leaders contribute productively to smoothly handling their responsibilities across respective departments. And, as a top executive Chief Technology Officer (CTO) oversees the entire information technology department and responsibly integrates business needs and requirements into IT planning and operations. Monitoring the external operations of companies, CTOs possess up-to-date technology and business knowledge, and necessarily engage in aligning technology-related decisions with the organization's goals, making improvisations.  Acquiring different roles, CTO wears the hat of an infrastructure manager, strategic planner, thinker, and involves in understanding consumer needs to develop a tailor-made solutions and deliver those defined IT projects to the market. In the recent years where the world has undergone dynamic shifts in business and corporate realm and where technology had a lot to do with operational conduct, CTOs played the role of risk mitigators handling technology issues adeptly within organizations, making improvements and implementing new IT solutions. Their contribution is immeasurable to be true, and where there were numerous CTOs, many women CTOs also played well in the tough times leveraging their potential IT business skills.

In this issue, the Women Entrepreneur magazine brings in to spotlight a list of `Top 10 Women CTOs - 2022', who are domineers of change in the business & corporate realm. This list of ten leading and inspiring women is crafted by a team of CEOs, VCs, and the editorial board, delivering inspiring stories of their journey and the contributions & roles played by them in the creation and empowerment of a healthy powerful nation.