- The Chairman-cum-MD of Biocon Limited, Kiran Mazumdar Shaw won the 2020 EY World Entrepreneur Of The Year Award. Now she becomes the second woman after Olivia Lum (CEO of Hyflux), who won this award. Olivia Lum is from Singapore won this award in 2011.
- Besides, Kiran Mazumdar Shaw is the third award winner from India. Prior to this, Uday Kotak won this award in 2014, and Narayana Murthy won in 2005.
- Biocon Limited,
- Biocon Limited is an Indian biopharmaceutical company, which is founded by Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw in 1978. Its headquarter is in Bangalore, Karnataka. The Company manufactures generic active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) that are sold in over 120 countries.
- At Present, the CEO and Join Managing Director of Biocon Limited is Siddharth Mittal.
Published On : 06 Jun 2020
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