Women Entrepreneur -1

CSD consulting assists GLOBAL clients in four specific domains : 1. Business development 2. Marketing &Communications 3. Public Health Advocacy and Communications 4. Editorial Services

CSD Consulting firm was founded in 2004 by Chitra Subramaniam

Chitra Subramaniam is famous for uncovering the Bofors scandal.

She was nominated Global Media Leader by the World Economic Forum (WEF)

A Stanford University graduate, Subramaniam is a journalist by training. She has won several awards for her work including Indias top media awards Award for Excellence in Journalism (1990) and the Woman Journalist of the year (1990).

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Her Intelligence, awareness, respect for diversity, incisive observations and knowledge are critical to bag many GLOBAL clients.

Her varied professional experience media, public health, marketing and business development gives her a rare edge in terms of insights and research.

But what makes her unique is her strength and bravery , exposing Indian ruling political class is not an ordinary task in those days , in spite of many threats she continued her investigation in BOFORS scam.

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Biocon is the market leader of Biotechnology

sector in INDIA

Ms. Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

- Chairman & Managing Director,

Biocon - First generation entrepreneur with more than 33 years experience in biotechnology and industrial enzymes - she is richest first generation entrepreneur in INDIA. -she started Biocon in the garage of her rented house in Bangalore with a seed capital of Rs. 10,000.

Ms.Kiran Mazumdar Shaw founded Biocon in 1978

Initially, she faced credibility challenges because of her youth, gender and her untested business model.

In spite of initial challenges ,Within a year of its inception, Biocon became the first Indian company to manufacture and export enzymes to USA and Europe. In 1989, Biocon became the first Indian biotech company to receive US funding for proprietary technologies.

She spearheaded its evolution from an industrial enzymes manufacturing company to a fully integrated bio-pharmaceutical company with a well-balanced business portfolio of products and a research focus on diabetes, oncology and auto-immune diseases

Biocons IPO was oversubscribed 32 times and its first day closed with a market value of $1.11 billion, making Biocon only the second Indian company to cross the $1-billion mark on the first day of listing.[

She also received an honorary Doctorate of Science in 2004, from her alma mater, Ballarat University, in recognition of her contributions to biotechnology, apart from being awarded honorary doctorates from University of Abertay, Dundee, UK (2007), University of Glasgow, UK (2008) and Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK (2008).

Her pioneering work in the sector has earned her several awards Padma Shri (1989) Padma Bhushan (2005) TIME magazines 100 most influential people in the world Forbes list of the worlds 100 most powerful women Financial Times top 50 women in business list Nikkei Asia Prize (2009) for Regional Growth

Today, Due to her leadership, Biocon is building cutting-edge capabilities, global credibility and global scale in its manufacturing and marketing activities. It has Asias largest insulin and statin facilities as also the largest perfusion-based antibody production facilities.

she started her career as a brewer in completely male dominated (at least in those times ) breweries industry . It clearly shows the mental strength of her.

Being a first generation entrepreneur She build the Biocon from scratch to Global biotechnology player ,with her business acumen & leadership skills . She is certainly a role model for all aspiring entrepreneurs ( not only for women) .

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Products can be made with compost

Poonam Bir Kasturi is called the Compostwali. Kanyika Kini is the compost chutki who is now married and gone away to Germany. Shashwati B is another compost chutki who is still a hovering support for Daily Dump. Pratima Rao is the compost supporter who can be depended upon for crises support. Nidhi Berera another compost supporter who created our aprons!

Poonam Bir Kasturi ( founder )

Proudly started by ALL WOMEN TEAM

That Daily Dump is not going to change the world but it can make a difference.

What I liked about this venture is these women are not as popular or as big as the earlier entrepreneurs we discussed . But they are unique in their own way and very effective

The Social Women Entrepreneur

In 1972 she founded the Self-Employed Womens Association (SEWA), a trade union for women workers in Indias huge informal sector, who make up 94 per cent of the female labour force and yet have never enjoyed the same rights and security as those in formal employment. Today SEWA has more than 1.2 million members across nine Indian states.

she has dedicated her life to improving the lives of Indias poorest and most oppressed women workers.

SEWA is both an organisation and a movement

SEWA Services: Sewa Bank Health care Child care Sewa insurance Legal services Housing and infrastructure Capacity building of Sewa members

SEWA Movements: Cooperatives DWCRA (rural producers) Groups Social security organizations Savings and credit groups Federations confluence of three movements : the labour movement, the cooperative movement and the womens movement. But it is also a movement of self-employed workers : their own, homegrown movement with women as the leaders. Through their own movement women become strong and visible

She was granted an honorary Doctorate degree in Humane Letters by Harvard University in June 2001.

her determination to empower rural & under privileged women is highly admirable

Ela Bhatt was also awarded the civilian honour of PADMA SHRI by the Government of India in 1985, and the PADMA BHUSHAN in 1986. She was awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Community Leadership in 1977 and the Right Livelihood Award in 1984.

Some Other Women Entrepreneurs

Nina Lekhi founded the Baggit

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