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    Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw is the chairman and managing director of Biocon Limited, India's largest biotechnology company. She received a B.Sc. in Zoology and later qualified as a master brewer. In 1978, she founded Biocon India with an initial capital of Rs. 10,000 and grew it into a pioneering biotech enterprise, despite facing skepticism from banks due to her status as a female entrepreneur in a new field. She has received numerous awards including the ET Businesswoman of the Year and Padma Bhushan for her achievements and contributions to the biotechnology industry in India.

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    Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw is the chairman and managing director of Biocon Limited, India's largest biotechnology company. She received a B.Sc. in Zoology and later qualified as a master brewer. In 1978, she founded Biocon India with an initial capital of Rs. 10,000 and grew it into a pioneering biotech enterprise, despite facing skepticism from banks due to her status as a female entrepreneur in a new field. She has received numerous awards including the ET Businesswoman of the Year and Padma Bhushan for her achievements and contributions to the biotechnology industry in India.

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    Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw is the chairman and managing director of Biocon Limited, India's largest biotechnology company. She received a B.Sc. in Zoology and later qualified as a master brewer. In 1978, she founded Biocon India with an initial capital of Rs. 10,000 and grew it into a pioneering biotech enterprise, despite facing skepticism from banks due to her status as a female entrepreneur in a new field. She has received numerous awards including the ET Businesswoman of the Year and Padma Bhushan for her achievements and contributions to the biotechnology industry in India.

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    Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

    - Chairman & Managing Director


    of Biocon Limited
    • Birth: Kannada, 23 March 1953.

    • Education:
    • Schooling at Bishop Cotton Girls School and
    Mount Carmel College at Bangalore.
    • B.Sc. in Zoology from Bangalore University in
    1973
    • She went to Ballarat University in
    Melbourne, Australia and qualified as a
    master brewer
    Achievements
    • Chairman & Managing Director of Biocon Ltd

    • Felicitated with Padmashri (1989) and Padma


    Bhushan (2005).

    • Biocon became India's biggest biotechnology


    company.

    • In 2004, she became India's richest woman.


    Career

    • Started her professional career as trainee brewer in


    Carlton & United Beverages in 1974.

    • In 1978, she joined as Trainee Manager with Biocon


    Biochemicals Limited in Ireland.
    • In 1978, she founded Biocon India in collaboration
    with Biocon Biochemicals Limited, with a capital of
    Rs.10,000.

    • Banks were hesitant to give loan to her as


    biotechnology was a totally new field at that
    point of time and she was a woman
    entrepreneur, which was a rare phenomenon.

    • Today, Biocon is recognised as India's pioneering


    biotech enterprise.
    Awards
    • ET Businesswoman of the Year,
    • Best Woman Entrepreneur,
    • Model Employer,
    • Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year Award
    for Life
    Sciences & Healthcare,
    • Leading Exporter,
    • Outstanding Citizen,
    • Technology Pioneer, etc.
    • Government of India also felicitated her with
    Padmashri (1989) and Padma Bhushan (2005).
    Thank You

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