1.

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw is an entrepreneur from India where she started Biocon, a large biotechnology company. She
is the Managing Director and Chairman of the company because of which made her the wealthiest woman of her
country.Kiran was born on 23rd March 1953 in Bangalore, India. She completed her initial schooling from Bishops
Cotton Girls High School in 1968. She had aspired being a doctor instead she ended up doing her BSc in Zoology
with Honors from Mount Carmel College of the Bangalore University in 1973. Two years later she completed her
post graduate studies from Ballarat College, Melbourne University qualifying as a master brewer. Kiran began her
professional career working as a trainee brewer at Carlton & United Beverages. After working there for four years
she switched her job to work at Biocon Biochemicals Limited which was based in Ireland. Later that year she
founded Biocon in India with an initial capital of only 10,000 rupees. Business was not easy due to lack of funds. All
the banks she turned to for loans were hesitant because biotechnology was not a familiar concept in India at that
time. Another reason was her gender. A female entrepreneur was another rare idea for Indians and one bringing in a
completely new field was even stranger. She even had difficulty hiring people to work for her.
Kiran was not discouraged from this lack of support. Instead she worked hard with whatever she had and built a
company that is now recognized as one of the leading firms of the company. After Biocon got an IPO in 2004, Kiran
Mazumdar-Shaw became the richest woman in India. Because of her strong determination, Kiran steered her
company towards growth and success. She made more than 2000 high value R&D licensing deals from 2005 to
2010. She helped Biocon to achieve global recognition and develop markets by acquisitions, in-licensing and
partnerships. In 2007, Biocon was ranked by Med Ad News as one of the leading biotech companies worldwide and
the 7th biggest biotechnology employer in the world. Kiran is responsible for Biocons innovative abilities,
worldwide reliability and global scale in marketing and manufacturing activities. Kiran founded the Biocon
Foundation which is a philanthropic organization carrying out environmental and health programs to help the weak
parts of the society. In 2007, she also established a cancer care center in Bangalore.
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw has received many honors and accolades for her entrepreneurial achievements such as the
prestigious Nikkei Asia Prize for Regional Growth and Express Pharmaceutical Leadership Summit Award for
Dynamic Entrepreneur in 2009. In 2004, she was deemed as the Businesswoman of the Year by the Economic
Times. Kiran received the Veuve Clicquot Initiative for Economic Development for Asia and Ernst & Youngs
Entrepreneur of the Year Award for Life Sciences & Healthcare in 2002. Some of her other awards include the
Corporate Leadership Award, honorary doctorates from Ballarat University, University of Abertay, University of
Glasgow, Dundee and Heriot-Watt University. Kiran ranks on number 80 on Forbes list of 100 most powerful
women (2012).

2. Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs, a man whose life is an example of sheer brilliance, inspiration and insight beyond words; the
incredible genius behind Apple computers and other revolutionary products deserves to be praised for his
contribution to technology that changed the way of life.
This entrepreneurial legend was born on 24th February 1955 in San Francisco, California. Adopted by Paul and
Clara Jobs who was a middle class couple, he lived most of his childhood in Mountain View, Santa Clara. The place
which became known as the Silicon Valley in the early 1950s laid the grounds for Steves immensely successful
career. The growing years of Steves life consisted of gizmos and other electrics being worked by the neighboring
engineers. He enrolled in Reeds College initially but soon dropped out after realizing that he was more interested in
fruitarian diet and philosophy. He moved to a hippie community in Oregon where his pastime was cultivating
apples.Although incredibly smart, Jobs lacked right guidance. During his high school years he befriended Steve
Wozniak who was a computer engineer not knowing that this friendship would alter his life course. Steve took up a
job at Atari as a video game designer for a short while. At the age of 21 he started Apple Computers along with
Steve Wozniak. Their computers were user friendly, smaller, cheaper and easily available for the common people.
The first model, the Apple I made sales of 774, 000 dollars. This figure increased by 700% to 139,000 million
dollars.
The business started undergoing a downfall in sales and profits in the early 1980s despite the heavy marketing of
Macintosh. As a result the executives at Apple started phasing out Jobs blaming him for the loss they were suffering.
Consequently, he resigned from his post of CEO at Apples only to start a new company known as NeXT, Inc. He
purchased another company in the following year which was later named Pixar Animation Studios. Steve believed
in this new venture so much so that he invested 50 million dollars of his own money into it. This company is the
producer of the smash hit animations such as Toy Story, Finding Nemo and The Incredibles. Pixar Studios was
bought by Walt Disney in 2006 with Jobs remaining its biggest shareholder.
NeXT Inc. was not as successful as Steve would have hoped it to be. It was purchased by Apple in 1997 with Steve
Jobs back as Apples CEO. The person who was blamed for the downfall was the one to bring back its lost glory and
this time never to leave again. He was wiser, older and more experienced. The introduction of inventive and trendy
products such as iMac combined with huge and effective marketing strategies worked the magic and the once again
the consumers had their loyalties with Apple.
Steve was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2003 and after a surgery the tumor was removed successfully. Steve
was a very private man and disclosed very little about his ailing health which did not seem to get in the way of his
flourishing accomplishments. In the following years he presented other ground-breaking products such as the
MacBook Air, iPhone and the iPod.
Steve Jobs died on 5th October 2011. We have this visionary entrepreneur to thank for providing the world
remarkable innovations. His whole career is an epitome of greatness and belief in oneself.

3. Anu Aga BiographyFull Name

Ms. Anu Aga

Elected from

Nominated

DOB

August 3, 1942

Place of Birth

Mumbai (Maharashtra)

Political Party

Nominated

Father's Name

Shri Ardeshir

Mother's Name

Shrimati Jini

Delhi Address

701, Brahmaputra Apartments, Dr. B.D. Marg, New Delhi,India. 110001

Permanent Address

C/O Thermax Limited, Thermax House, 14, Mumbai-Pune Road,

WAKDEWADI, Pune, Maharashtra,India. 411003

Spouse

Late Shri Rohinton

Children

One daughter

Education

B.A. (Economics), M.S.W. Educated at St. Xaviers College, Mumbai and

Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai

Profession before joining politics

Social Worker

Positions Held

2010 onwards Member, National Advisory Council

April 2012 Nominated to Rajya Sabha
May 2012 onwards Member, Committee on Personnel, Public
Grievances, Law and Justice
Aug. 2012 onwards Member, Parliamentary Forum on Children
Sept. 2012- Sept. 2013 Member, Committee on Empowerment of
Women

Term

27/04/2012 to 26/04/2018

Member of

Rajya Sabha