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Age: 41
Ameera Shah is at the helm of a global pathology empire Metropolis Healthcare worth ₹88.15 billion.
At the age of 21, young Shah was working with Goldman Sachs in New York. However, she quit the company to join a startup, which had only five employees at the time. She returned from the US in 2001 to become an entrepreneur. Unlike other uber-rich kids, Shah did not begin at the management position in her father’s company. She started at the customer service department and worked her way up the ranks in the company.
Over fifteen years, she turned her father's single laboratory into a multi-billion dollar business. Metropolis has over 125 clinical labs across 210 cities in India. Last year, she decided to take her company public. The share price of Metropolis has gone up nearly 60% in 12 months.
This year, her company became the first private company to get the government’s approval for COVID-19 testing.