Ameera Shah

Ameera Shah is the Promoter & Managing Director of Metropolis Healthcare Ltd, a reputed chain of pathology labs with a loyal customer base across India, South Asia, and Africa. A global thought leader in the healthcare industry, she has played an instrumental role in changing the pathology industry landscape in the country; from being a doctor led practice to a professional corporate group in an extremely unregulated, competitive, and fragmented market.

Over the two decades, Shah has built the organization across the board, and has been a dynamic driving force behind the entire corporate transformation and the sustained growth of Metropolis. Due to its unique growth model and competitive advantage, Metropolis has attracted three rounds of investment by reputed private equity investors. Under the leadership of Shah, Metropolis listed successfully at the stock exchanges in 2019 and within three years of its listing, the company cemented a position of trust with international and domestic investors by posting industry leading performance every quarter and delivering good returns on their investments.

Ameera Shah is the recipient of the Entrepreneur of the Year Award in healthcare category for the year 2021 from Ernst& Young. Shah is one of the three women to ever receive this award in the past 20 years and the youngest woman ever to receive this award. She has been named amongst ‘Asia’s Power Businesswoman’ (2020) by Forbes Asia, ‘Fifty Most Powerful Women in Business’ by Fortune India (2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021) and Business Today (2018, 2019, 2021, 2022).

Shah received a degree in Finance from The University of Texas at Austin and is an alumnus of the Harvard Business School (OPM Program).

Shah was an independent director for Marico, Kaya in the past and is currently on the board for reputed Indian companies such as Torrent Pharma, Shoppers Stop, and ACC Limited (a part of Adani Cement). She is also an advisor to Baylor College of Medicine, Texas. She is also on the global advisory board of AXA, a Paris headquartered company with 700 billion $ under asset management.

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