Kiran Mazumdar Shaw
Personal Profile
Kiran Mazumdar Shaw
Date of Birth:
March 23, 1953Zodiac Sign:
AriesPlace of Birth:
Bangalore, IndiaSex:
FemaleHair Color:
Black Eye Color:
BrownNationality:
IndianEducation:
Bishop Cotton Girls School, Bangalore
Mount Carmel College, Bangalore
Ballarat Institute of Advanced Education
Family
Kiran Mazumdar Shaw
Career
Kiran Mazumdar Shaw
Awards
Kiran Mazumdar Shaw
2005: Padma Bhushan Award
2006: Wharton Infosys Business Transformation Award
2005: Lifetime Achievement Award from Indian Chamber of Commerce
2004: Whirlpool GR8 Women award for Science and Technology
1987: Outstanding Young Person Award by Jaycees
1983: Rotary Award for the Best Model Employer
1983: Outstanding Contribution Award (AWAKE)
Trivia
Kiran Mazumdar Shaw
- Being a lover of art and arty things, her office is adorned with artifacts and paintings by Yusuf Arakkal and various other artistes reflect her feelings. Kiran Mazumdar Shaw has been a trustee of the Karnataka Chitra Kala Parishat as well.
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- In her effort to preserve the character of Bangalore, Kiran Mazumdar Shaw has been proactively involved in various city improvement plans like the Bangalore Agenda Task Force (BATF).
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- She was termed India's Biotech Queen by The Economist and Fortune, and India's mother of invention by New York Times.
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- Kiran Mazumdar Shaw is also an art collector.
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- She is a civic activist, especially with respect to municipal administration in Bangalore.
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Quotes
Kiran Mazumdar Shaw
- They've never faced the glass ceiling and I can tell you that I have great male managers as well! I have a lot of confidence in both men and women and don't have a gender bias in dealing with them. Yes, I do realise that women in our country do suffer from some kind of a handicap because of societal pressures and perception problems but a the end of the day I feel that every woman must have it in her to succeed, to achieve and get on top of all these things. - Unknown
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- I have women at senior management levels; the head of my quality assurance is a woman and so is the HR chief and one of my production units is headed by a woman too. They are all such competent, self-assured, non-nonsense women; and are doing fantastically well. - Unknown
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- Not really. I concede that women do have a little more sensitivity, but that doesn't really help because a lot of men too have a great amount of sensitivity. So I don't subscribe to that. I feel what is really important is that you must command the respect of your people. That's what makes the difference. I've managed to get together a team of like-minded people who have a great deal of mutual respect and gender has never played a part. - Unknown
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- I've also proved to them that I have no labour problems and I would say my relationship with my employees is fantastic. We have a great team and a camaraderie that you don't see in most companies. - Unknown
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- Around 1976-77 and that is the time when instead of resigning myself to my gloomy fate, I said to myself I am going to prove these guys wrong. In fact I was about to get a job in the UK and I got this opportunity of starting this company (Biocon India). I've never looked back and there are no regrets. I think today I can look back and say I've certainly proved that I am not a risk prone investment. I've proved this to all my investors and given them very good returns. I think I have the capabil - Unknown
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Biography
Kiran Mazumdar Shaw
Last Updated: Wednesday, February 06, 2002
A successful technocrat of global standing, Kiran Mazumdar Shaw heads India’s leading Biotechnology enterprise, Biocon. She is highly respected in the corporate world and has been recently voted by Nature Biotechnology as The Most Influential in Bio-business person outside Europe and USA. Kiran Mazumdar Shaw received a graduate honours degree in Zoology from Bangalore University (1973) and qualified as a Master Brewer from Ballarat University, Australia (1975). Kiran Mazumdar Shaw also received an honorary Doctorate of Science in 2004, from her alma mater, Ballarat University, in recognition of her pre-eminent contributions to the field of Biotechnology.
Kiran Mazumdar Shaw has also been awarded honarary doctorates from University of Abertay, Dundee, U.K. (2007), University of Glasgow, U.K. (2008) and Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, U.K. (2008).Kiran Mazumdar Shaw chairs Karnataka's Vision Group on Biotechnology and also served on the Board of Science Foundation, Ireland. She presently serves on the Advisory Council of the Government’s Department of Biotechnology where she has been instrumental in bringing government, industry and academia together, to chart a clear and progressive growth path for Biotechnology in India. Most recently, Kiran Mazumdar Shaw has been invited to join the Prime Minister’s Council on Trade & Industry in India and the US-India CEO Forum.
Kiran Mazumdar Shaw is the recipient of several prestigious awards including the ET Businesswoman of the Year, Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year Award for Life Sciences & Healthcare, Technology Pioneer, etc. Her most cherished awards are the national awards, PADMASHRI (1989) and PADMA BHUSHAN (2005) presented to her by the President of India, for her pioneering efforts in Industrial Biotechnology.
Under her stewardship, Biocon has evolved from its inception in 1978 as an industrial enzymes company to a fully integrated Bio-pharmaceutical enterprise encompassing a well balanced business portfolio of products and services with a research focus on Diabetes, Oncology and Auto-immune disease. During this transition, Biocon has established 2 subsidiaries: Syngene (1994) to provide development support services for discovery research and Clinigene (2000) to cater to services in clinical development. A leading US trade publication, Med Ad News, in its 2007 listings has ranked Biocon 20th amongst the leading biotechnology companies in the world and the 7th largest Biotech employer globally.