Ameera Shah | |
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Born | Mumbai, Maharashtra, India | 24 September 1979
Nationality | Indian |
Alma mater | University of Texas at Austin |
Occupation(s) | MD, Metropolis Healthcare |
Website | www |
Ameera Shah (born 24 September 1979) is an Indian entrepreneur and the managing director of Metropolis Healthcare, a multinational chain of pathology centers based in Mumbai, with presence in seven countries.[1] She is the daughter of Dr Sushil Shah, the founder and chairman 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] and 2019.[7] Shah was featured in the list of Forbes India's Tycoons of Tomorrow 2018.[8]
Ameera Shah was born to Dr. Sushil Shah, a pathologist, and Dr. Duru Shah, a gynaecologist.[9] She belongs to a family of doctors in Mumbai. Her elder sister Aparna Shah is a geneticist.[9] She studied commerce at junior college in H.R. College of Commerce and Economics.[9] She obtained a degree in finance from the University of Texas at Austin.[8]
She used to work with Goldman Sachs in New York.[10] 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,[10] TED, and CII.
She took over her father's pathology business- Metropolis Lab in 2001.[9] 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.[11] She successfully led the listing of the company in April 2019.[7]
She serves as a Board Member of Marico Kaya Enterprises Limited[12] and the Managing Director of Metropolis Healthcare Limited. She is presently the Independent Director at Torrent Pharmaceuticals Limited.,[13] Shoppers Stop Limited[14] and Kaya Limited[15] She is an advisor to Baylor College of Medicine.[16] She is also on the global advisory board of AXA.[17]
Shah has also served as secretary of the Indian Association of Pathology Laboratories (IAPL)[18] and co-chairperson of Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) Health Services Committee in 2012.[19]
Between 2016 and 2017, she starred in and was an investor on the startup reality television show The Vault.[20]
In 2017, Shah founded Empoweress, a not-for-profit initiative for women-led businesses to find advice, mentorship and micro-funding.[21][22]
Ameera Shah married Hemant Sachdev, an Indian retail entrepreneur, who serves as a non-executive director of Metropolis Healthcare.[33] In March 2020, she gave birth to a baby boy named Karma. The family relocated to Dubai during the COVID-19 pandemic.[34]