1 Kiran Mazumdar Shaw- A Self-Made Woman

1. Kiran Mazumdar Shaw- A Self- Made Woman We often have heard about successful Indian businessmen but a success story of a self-made Indian woman is not what we get to hear often. Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, a woman entrepreneur and the founder of a biopharmaceutical firm is today one of the richest people in India. Today she is a proud woman who is the company Biocon’s CEO and one of the many billionaires in India. Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw’s Early Life And Education Kiran was born in Pune to a Gujarati family on 23 March 1953. Her father worked in United Breweries as the Brewmaster Head. She did her early education at Bishop Cotton High School and Mount Carmel in Bangalore. Mazumdar always wanted to study medicine but could because she did not receive a scholarship. She graduated in 1973 from Banglore University with a zoology degree.

2. Her father encouraged her to study fermentation and become a brewmaster, despite it being a very non-traditional field for women to work in back then. It was then when she decided to pursue a master’s in Malting and Brewing from Ballarat University, in Australia. Despite being the only woman in her course, she topped the class and became a brewmaster. She worked first as Trainee brewer and then as a trainee maltster in Carlton and United Breweries and Barrett Brothers and Burston respectively. She returned to India and worked in Jupiters Breweries Ltd as a technical consultant in 1975 and then as a technical manager in a brewery in Baroda. In 1977, when she was looking for options in Delhi or Bangalore she was told in India, women are not a fit for working as a master brewer. It was then when decided to look for opportunities abroad and eventually went to Scotland. She married John Shaw in 1998, who was Madura Coats chairman then but resigned in 2001 to become Biocon’s Vice Chairman. Biocon- A New Turn In Mazumdar’s Life Kiran met Leslie Auchincloss, Biocon Biochemicals Limited founder, a company in Cork, Ireland. His firm uses to produce enzymes that were used in the Textile, brewing, and food-packaging industries. Leslie was looking for a person with whom he could become his partner as well as help him to establish a subsidiary in India. He was looking for import of Papain from India. It was Mazumdar who agreed to close a deal with him. She said she would want him to appoint her as a brewmaster if she does not want to continue the partnership as she was giving up her current role. To gain Knowledge of Leslie’s business, Mazumdar joined his company as a trainee manager for six months. You can read the full content: https://www.businessupside.in/kiran- mazumdar-shaw-a-self-made-woman/ -------------------------- Business Upside

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