Kiran Mazumdar Shaw Biography

Achievement: Chairman and Managing Director of Biocon Limited; Padma Shri (1989) and Padma Bhushan (2005), awarded with.

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Biocon Ltd, India's largest biotechnology company's chairman and managing director. In 2004, he became India's richest woman.

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, March 23, 1953 was born in Bangalore. Bishop Cotton Girls School and Mount Carmel College in Bangalore was on his schooling. After completing his BSc in Zoology from Bangalore University in 1973, he in Melbourne, Australia, went to the University of Ballarat and qualified as a master brewer.

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw in 1978, Carlton and United Beverages in 1974 as a trainee brewer started his professional career, he Biocon Biochemicals Limited in Ireland, joined as trainee manager. In the same year, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Biocon India in collaboration with Biocon Biochemicals Ltd. established with a capital of Rs 10,000. She started her business faced many problems about the funds. Banks were hesitant to give him credit for biotechnology at the point in time as a woman entrepreneur and he was a completely new area, which was a rare occurrence.

Biocon's initial operation was to extract an enzyme from papaya. Strategic research initiative led by Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Biocon is an integrated biopharmaceutical company with an industrial enzymes company changed. Today, Biocon, India's leading biotechnology enterprise is recognized. In 2004, Biocon came with an IPO and the issue was oversubscribed by more than 30 times. Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, the company's shares after the IPO and held for about 40% of India's richest woman with a fortune estimated worth was regarded as. 2,100 crore.

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw is the recipient of many prestigious awards. The Government of India honored him with Padma Shri ET Businessman of the Year, Best Female Entrepreneur, model employer, life sciences and healthcare for Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award, the leading exporter, outstanding citizen, Technology Pioneer, etc. (1989) and Padma Bhushan (2005).