Ameera Shah

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Ameera Shah
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Born (1979-09-24) 24 September 1979 (age 45)
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Nationality Indian
Alma mater University of Texas at Austin
Occupation(s)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]

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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]

Early life

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

Personal life

Ameera Shah was born to Dr. Sushil Shah, a pathologist, and Dr. Duru Shah, a gynaecologist. [17] Her elder sister Aparna Shah is a geneticist. [17] She is married to Hemant Sachdev, an Indian retail entrepreneur, who serves as a non-executive director of Metropolis Healthcare. [41] In March 2020, she gave birth to a baby boy named Karma. [42]

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