Co-Owner and Global CFO of Houston-based Worldwide Oilfield Machine (WOM), Rani Puranik, thrives at leading innovation, empowering others and inspiring collaboration.
She directs financial controllership, strategy, investments and enterprise growth for WOM, a privately held, family-owned oil and gas equipment manufacturing firm with more than 3,000 employees operating in 11 locations around the world. Over the course of 15 years, she has developed and implemented the framework for communication, standardization, operations and business development at WOM. Puranik, along with her father, have led the corporation to grow to more than $350 million in annual revenues.
Puranik invests a significant amount of time in India as the Chairman of the Puranik Foundation. The Puranik Foundation, founded by Puranik’s mother, serves as the corporate social responsibility arm of WOM. The nonprofit organization operates a private residential school called the Vision International Learning Center in Pune, India, for under-resourced children.
As a seasoned motivational speaker and certified Master Coach in Leadership Development, Puranik is passionate about mentoring the next generation of leaders. She has hosted a mentorship day at the Energy Leadership Institute of Houston High School where she paired seniors with WOM company executives to help them refine energy product innovations. Additionally, she serves as a ROSES mentor, supporting HISD’s new program to empower female students. She has spent the last four years working with graduate students as a Cares Mentor with the University of Houston’s Bauer College of Business.
Puranik was named a recipient of the “Maura Women of Helping Woman Award” by the Texas Women’s Foundation, a CW39’s “Remarkable Woman” Finalist, an “Enterprising Woman of the Year” and received the “Daily Point of Light Award.” She was also named one of the “Top Leading Women” in Energy by the Houston Business Journal and “Business Woman of the Year” by the Indo-American Chamber of Commerce of Greater Houston.
Puranik has found the strength to reinvent herself in order to overcome challenges in her personal life and in her family’s business. Puranik’s debut book titled “Seven Letters to My Daughters” is slated to launch in 2022.
Puranik received a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from the University of Pune in India and a Master of Business Administration in Finance from Rice University. This businesswoman on a mission wears many hats on any given day but is most proud to be a mother of two grown daughters and two rescued dogs.
Rani Puranik
Co-Owner and Global CFO
Worldwide Oilfield Machine
11809 Canemont St.
Houston, TX 77035
(713) 729-9200
