Ameera Shah: Healthcare Evangelist
Ameera Shah, promoter and Managing Director of Metropolis Healthcare is recognized as a global thought leader in the healthcare industry. Shah has played a crucial 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.
Shah who holds a degree in Finance from the University of Texas at Austin, has also completed the prestigious Owner-President Management Programme at Harvard Business School. Under her leadership, Metropolis Healthcare has emerged as a reputed diagnostic chain with a loyal customer base across India, South Asia, Africa and the Middle East. It delivers over 16 million tests annually and is rated amongst the top 1 per cent laboratories globally for its quality systems and protocols.
Over the past two decades Shah has focused on delivering sustained growth, built and led corporate functions, including finance, strategy, business process optimisation, innovation, investor relations, etc. Under her watch, Metropolis has raised the bar of diagnostic accuracy, technological equipment, customer experience and research-driven empathetic service.
Shah has been instrumental in the corporatization of Metropolis by setting protocols, hiring professionals for the management team and also bringing together a fully functioning board. Due to its unique growth model and competitive advantage, Metropolis has attracted three rounds of investment by reputed private equity investors.
Upholding the highest standards of corporate governance and business ethics, Metropolis has built exceptional value for all of its stakeholders. Metropolis also listed successfully in April 2019 at a 9 per cent premium to its issue price.
Shah is a champion of organisational empathy and gender sensitivity. Also an active financial investor and a business mentor, Shah is passionate about empowerment of women and their promotion in leadership. As a business leader who has paved her own path to excellence, Shah is committed to supporting budding women entrepreneurs in their journey to success
Under Ameera Shah’s leadership, Metropolis Healthcare has raised the bar of diagnostic accuracy, technologicaL equipment, customer experience and research-driven empathetic service.
