Ms. Ameera Shah is the Promoter & Managing Director of Metropolis Healthcare Ltd., a leading chain of pathology labs with a large network in India and Africa. A finance graduate from the University of Texas, she is also an alumnus of the Harvard Business School, having pursued the OPM Program. For the last 20 years,
Biography
Ms. Ameera Shah is the Promoter & Managing Director of Metropolis Healthcare Ltd., a leading chain of pathology labs with a large network in India and Africa. A finance graduate from the University of Texas, she is also an alumnus of the Harvard Business School, having pursued the OPM Program. For the last 20 years, she has built Metropolis into a leading and reputed chain of laboratories with a wide network of over 2900 laboratories and patient service centers. Under her leadership, Metropolis had a successful listing at the Stock Exchanges in April 2019. Ms. Shah has played an instrumental role in changing the landscape of the pathology industry in the country, from being a doctor-led practice to a professionally led industry.
Ms. Shah has been named amongst the Most Powerful Women in Business by Fortune India (in the years 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020) and by Business Today (in the years 2018, 2019). She launched Empoweress in October 2017, which is a peer-to-peer mentoring and networking ecosystem for women entrepreneurs. More recently, Ms. Shah won the Entrepreneur of the Year Award by E&Y in the Healthcare & Science category, for leading the company from the frontlines during the global pandemic.