Ameera Shah
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Ameera Shah | |
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| Born | 24 September 1979 Mumbai, Maharashtra, India |
| Alma mater | University of Texas at Austin |
| Occupations | Executive Chairperson and Whole-time Director, Metropolis Healthcare |
| Website | Website of Metropolis Healthcare |
Ameera Shah (born 24 September 1979) is an Indian entrepreneur. She is Executive Chairperson and Whole-time Director of Metropolis Healthcare, a leading diagnostic chain with presence in India and Africa.[1] She is the daughter of Dr Sushil Shah, the founder of Metropolis Healthcare.[2]
She has been honored as a 2015 Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.[3][4] She was named to Fortune India's "Most Powerful Women in Business" list in 2017,[5] 2018,[6] 2019,[7] 2020,[8] and 2021.[9] Shah was featured in the list of Forbes India's Tycoons of Tomorrow 2018.[10] She also received the Ernst & Young ‘Entrepreneur of the Year’ Award in healthcare for 2021.[11]
Currently, she serves as Sr. Vice-President of NATHealth (Healthcare Federation of India).[12] She is also an Independent Director on the boards of Torrent Pharma and the ACC limited, which is a part of Adani Group.[13][14][15] She was also an advisor to Baylor College of Medicine and the global advisory board of AXA.[16]
She studied commerce at junior college in H.R. College of Commerce and Economics.[17] She obtained a degree in finance from the University of Texas at Austin.[10]
She used to work with Goldman Sachs in New York.[18] Later, she completed the Owner-President Management Program at Harvard Business School. Shah is an industry spokesperson and has been featured as a speaker in various National and International forums, industry events and conclaves. She has spoken at events organized by Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, Harvard Business School,[18] TED, and CII.
Career
Metropolis Healthcare
She took over her father's pathology business- Metropolis Lab in 2001.[17] She subsequently transformed a single diagnostic lab which had a revenue of about $1.5 million and 40 employees, to Metropolis Healthcare, a multinational chain of 125 diagnostic labs with $90 million in revenue and 4,500 employees.[19] She successfully led the listing of the company in April 2019.[7]
Board memberships and affiliations
She serves as a Board Member of Marico Kaya Enterprises Limited[20] and the Managing Director of Metropolis Healthcare Limited. She is presently the Independent Director at Torrent Pharmaceuticals Limited.,[21] Shoppers Stop Limited[22] and Kaya Limited[23] She is an advisor to Baylor College of Medicine.[24] She is also on the global advisory board of AXA.[25]
Shah has also served as secretary of the Indian Association of Pathology Laboratories (IAPL)[26] and co-chairperson of Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) Health Services Committee in 2012.[27]
Other ventures
Between 2016 and 2017, she starred in and was an investor on the startup reality television show The Vault.[28]
In 2017, Shah founded Empoweress, a not-for-profit initiative for women-led businesses to find advice, mentorship and micro-funding.[29][30]
Honours and awards
- CNBC-AWAAZ CEO Awards 2019[31]
- Business Today's Most Powerful Women list, 2018,[32] 2019[30]
- Tycoons of Tomorrow by Forbes India, 2018[33][34]
- India's Most Powerful Women in Business (ranked at no. 28) by Fortune India Magazine, 2019[7]
- India's Most Powerful Women in Business (ranked at no. 36) by Fortune India Magazine, 2018[6]
- India's Most Powerful Women in Business (ranked at no. 46) by Fortune India Magazine, 2017[5]
- Asia's Power Business Women 2015, Forbes[35]
- Young Global Leader, World Economic Forum, 2015[36]
- Women Leadership Award at the CMO Asia Awards, 2015[37]
- Exemplary Women Leadership Award, World Women Leadership Congress & Awards, 2014[38]
- 40 Under 40 Business Leaders by The Economic Times[39]
- Young Achiever of the Year, CMO Asia Awards, 2011
- Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award, 2011 by Entrepreneur India & Bloomberg[40]