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    Desh Bandhu Gupta founded Lupin Ltd. in 1968 by borrowing his wife's savings to purchase a small vitamin company. Under his leadership, Lupin Ltd. grew to become the world's largest manufacturer of tuberculosis drugs and one of India's top five pharmaceutical companies, with 70% of its revenues coming from overseas markets. Olivia Lum founded Hyflux in 1989 with just $20,000 in capital from selling her home and car. She grew Hyflux to become Singapore's first water treatment company listed on the stock exchange, earning her a place on Forbes' list of the richest people in Southeast Asia. Both entrepreneurs started with little capital but grew their companies significantly in the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries through hard work and

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    Desh Bandhu Gupta founded Lupin Ltd. in 1968 by borrowing his wife's savings to purchase a small vitamin company. Under his leadership, Lupin Ltd. grew to become the world's largest manufacturer of tuberculosis drugs and one of India's top five pharmaceutical companies, with 70% of its revenues coming from overseas markets. Olivia Lum founded Hyflux in 1989 with just $20,000 in capital from selling her home and car. She grew Hyflux to become Singapore's first water treatment company listed on the stock exchange, earning her a place on Forbes' list of the richest people in Southeast Asia. Both entrepreneurs started with little capital but grew their companies significantly in the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries through hard work and

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    Desh Bandhu Gupta founded Lupin Ltd. in 1968 by borrowing his wife's savings to purchase a small vitamin company. Under his leadership, Lupin Ltd. grew to become the world's largest manufacturer of tuberculosis drugs and one of India's top five pharmaceutical companies, with 70% of its revenues coming from overseas markets. Olivia Lum founded Hyflux in 1989 with just $20,000 in capital from selling her home and car. She grew Hyflux to become Singapore's first water treatment company listed on the stock exchange, earning her a place on Forbes' list of the richest people in Southeast Asia. Both entrepreneurs started with little capital but grew their companies significantly in the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries through hard work and

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    Desh Bandhu Gupta founded Lupin Ltd. in 1968 by borrowing his wife's savings to purchase a small vitamin company. Under his leadership, Lupin Ltd. grew to become the world's largest manufacturer of tuberculosis drugs and one of India's top five pharmaceutical companies, with 70% of its revenues coming from overseas markets. Olivia Lum founded Hyflux in 1989 with just $20,000 in capital from selling her home and car. She grew Hyflux to become Singapore's first water treatment company listed on the stock exchange, earning her a place on Forbes' list of the richest people in Southeast Asia. Both entrepreneurs started with little capital but grew their companies significantly in the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries through hard work and

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    A SEMINAR ON PHARMA ENTREPRENEURS

    B.MAMATHA, 256311886008, M.Pharmacy,

    Department of

    LUPIN Ltd
    Dr. Desh Bandhu Gupta, Founder and Chairman, Lupin Ltd.

    Profile
    Desh Bandhu Gupta is the Founder and Chairman of Lupin Ltd., a Pharmaceuticals, Drugs & Healthcare company founded in 1968. Lupin.Ltd is headquartered at Mumbai, India. Desh Bandhu Gupta is an honorary Doctor of science(D.Sc.) with a masters degree in Chemistry. In his early career, he was an Associate Professor at BITS, Pilani, Rajasthan (Birla Institute of Technology and Science).

    He borrowed wife's savings to buy Lupin Ltd., a tiny vitamin company, in 1968. It is now the world's largest maker of tuberculosis drugs and among India's top five pharmaceutical firms. Today, 70 percent of its revenues come from the overseas market, in line with the industry norm. Lupin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. entered the U.S. generic pharmaceutical market in 2003 with the ANDA approval for cefuroxime axetil.

    Lupin is 5th largest in America and 15th largest in the world. Dr. D.B. Gupta received Entrepreneur Of The Year 2011, India - Life Sciences and Healthcare. In March 2011, Forbes reported that Desh Bandhu Gupta's net worth was $2.1 Billion; this made him the 25th richest person in India and the 564th richest person in the world.

    HYFLUX LTD
    Ms Olivia Lum,
    Group CEO, President and Managing Director.

    Olivia Lum is a Singaporean businesswoman. She is best known for being the founder, group chief executive officer, and president of the Singaporebased Hyflux Group. She also heads the Research and Development. She came to Singapore at the age of 15 and enrolled at the Tiong Bahru Secondary School, where she supported herself through tutoring and sales jobs. She went on to study at Hwa Chong Junior College and graduated in 1986 with an Honours degree in chemistry from the Faculty of Science of the National University of Singapore.
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    Lum started corporate life as a chemist with Glaxo Pharmaceutical. After working for three years at Glaxo, she left in 1989 at the age of 28 to start up Hydrochem, the precursor to Hyflux, with just SG$20,000 of capital, which she raised by selling her condominium and car. She hired three employees at the start; Lum herself rode around on a motorcycle selling her company's water filters and treatment chemicals. By January 2001, Hyflux had become the first water treatment company to be listed on SESDAQ, and was upgraded to the Singapore Exchange's Mainboard in April 2003. By 2005, she had a net worth of over US$240 million, which earned her a place as the only woman on Forbes' "Southeast Asia Rich List". As of 2007, Hyflux was worth SG$1 billion and employed more than 800 people.

    She is a board member of SPRING Singapore, the National University Singapore Council, and the Singapore Exchange, as well as the president of the Singapore Water Association. Lum was a Nominated Member of Parliament in the Parliament of Singapore from 2 July 2002 to 1 January 2005. In 2003, she was awarded the International Management Action Award, followed by the Global Female Invent and Innovate Award in 2004. In 2011, she has been named as Ernst and Young World Entrepreneur of the year 2011.

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