Ms. Ameera Shah
Ms. Ameera Shah is the Promoter & Managing Director of Metropolis Healthcare Ltd. For the last 20 years, Ms. Shah has focused on delivering sustained growth, built and led corporate functions, including finance, strategy, business process optimization, innovation, investor relations etc.
Named amongst ‘Asia’s Most Powerful Women in Business’ by Forbes Asia and ‘Fifty Most Powerful Women in Business’ by Fortune India, Ms. Shah is recognized as a global thought leader in the healthcare industry. She has also 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.
Ms. Shah received a degree in Finance from The University of Texas at Austin and has also completed the prestigious Owner-President Management Program at Harvard Business School.
In addition to being a propagator of organizational empathy and gender sensitivity, Ms. Shah is also an active financial investor and a business mentor. Passionate about the women leadership and empowerment, she has committed to supporting budding women entrepreneurs. This led her to set up Empoweress, a not-for-profit platform for women-led businesses to find advice, mentorship and microfunding. Launched in 2017, the platform incubates more than 50 women led businesses already.
An eminent industry spokesperson, she has been featured as a speaker in various National and International forums, industry events and conclaves organized by IIM, Harvard Business School, TedX, CII, FICCI, Twitter amongst others. She has also been elected the Secretary of the IAPL (Indian Association of Pathology Laboratories) and has served as the Chairperson of the ‘FICCI Health services Western Subgroup’ that drives policy decisions at the Center.
Ms. Shah has served as an Independent Director on the board of reputed Indian companies (Kaya, Shoppers Stop). She is an Independent Director on the board of Torrent Pharma and is also an advisor to Baylor College of Medicine. She is also on the global advisory board of AXA, a Paris headquartered company with 700 Billion $ under asset management.