The most important thing is to identify what you desire – and then to devote your life to getting there. In a lot of ways, the sum total of my professional life so far.
I have always been inherently passionate and ambitious about work and family, and perhaps it has a lot to do with my genes. Growing up, it was often hard to separate the family from the business of Lupin. Dinner conversations were interspersed with business updates and before I knew it, I was already a Lupinytt. I remember going to Switzerland as a 11-year-old – it was a business trip for my father and a vacation for us during the summer holidays. My father let me sit through a business meeting. It was one of my earliest memories of listening to him talk about the pharmaceutical sector and the vision he had for Lupin. A few years later, owing to my interest in arts and good grades in science, I was advised to study architecture. But I decided against it, and instead decided to pursue pharmacy at Mumbai University. In a sense, that was the first formal step of my journey towards Lupin.
The US chapter of my story began almost a year after earning the bachelor’s degree in pharmacy. Having worked at Lupin for a year, I decided to study business management at Kellogg School of Management. Back then, Lupin was largely an India focused company but I was determined that we should be on the world stage. And sure enough, after having earned my masters degree at Kellogg, I wanted to take Lupin global by building and working on the company’s entry into the most advanced, regulated and largest pharmaceutical market – the United States. We were very late entrants and had missed what the industry refers to as the first wave of generic companies that hit the market.
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