Presented by;

MUNTAHA QADRI

KIRAN MAZUMDAR SHAW

Chairperson and managing director of Biocon, Indias largest biotechnologycompany

BIOGRAPHY Born on march 23 , 1959 in Bangalore

She did schooling from Bishop cotton Girls school and Mount Carmel college, Bangalore

After completing her B.Sc in zoology from Bangalore university in 1973, she went to Balarath university in Melbourne , Australia and did her masters in malting and brewring

HER CAREER

Trainee brewer in Carlton and university breweries , Melbore

Trainee maltster at Barrrett brothers and Burston,Australia

Technical consultant at Jupiter Breweries limited, Calcutta and as a technical manager at standard Malting's corporation, Baroda between 1975 and 1977

THE JOURNEY BEGINS

She moved to Ireland and join Biocon by chemicals ltd as trainee manager in 1978

Founded Biocon India in collaboration with Biocon biochemical ltd

Initially working out of her garage , and with only a handful of rupees in the bank , she began making enzymes for industrial application, such as : papain , a proteolytic enzymes extracted from papaya fruit , which prevents chilled beer from turning hazy

KIRAN MAZUMDAR SHAW

Under Kiran Mazumdar Shaw’s StewardshipBiocon transformed from a industrial enzymes company toan integrated biopharmaceutical company with a strategicresearch initiatives. Today , Biocon is recognized as India’spioneering biotech enterprise

PERSONAL ACHIEVEMENTS

1982- National institute of marketing management , India 1983- Rotary Club, Karnataka 1989- Padmashri,GOI 1999-International Women's association, Chennai 2002-ERNST & YOUNG 2005-Highest civilian honours 2009-Express Pharmaceutical leadership summit award 2010-FORBES list 2014-Othmer gold medal

ACHIEVEMENTS

She is on the financial times top 50 women in business list As of 2015,she was listed as the 85th most powerful women in the world

by FORBES At present in 2016,she has been listed one more times in ‘FORBES’ – the

most powerful woman in the world at 77th position

BOARD MEMBERSHIPS

Is the member of the board of governors of the prestigious Indian School of Business and a past membership of the Board of Governors of the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad

As of February 2014,Kiran became the first women to head the board of governors of the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIBM)

“IF YOU HAVE A VISION , A PLAN AND A CONVICTION , YOU SHOULD FOLLOW IT AND SUCCESS WILL COME YOUR WAY”

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