Kiran Majumdar is one of the many persons that Bangloreans are proud of. She is the biotech entrepreneur and CEO of Biocon India Group.
   
Kiran was born in Bangalore. Her education began in Bishop Cotton Girls School and then Mount Carmel College. She then went on to Ballarat College, Melbourne, specializing in Malting and Brewing Technology there to become India's first woman Brew master.
   
At university in Australia she was the only woman in an all-male class but she

still managed to top. An Irish businessman being very impressed with her qualifications and confidence offered to set up Biocon industries in India for her. Today Biocon Industries is a pioneer in the field of bio-technology.
 
Besides, she has a tremendous passion for this city. She has been actively involved in making this city a better place to live by trying to improve the civic amenties, roads and cleanliness. She was also the first to hail the Bangalore Agenda Task Force (BATF) initiative and contributed one crore rupees which was subsequently used to start the "Swachcha Bangalore" programme which aimed at door to door collection of garbage. She has also been actively involved in writing has published a book 'Ale and Arty' few months back. This book is all about brewing beer and has some great paintings of S G Vasudev, Yusuf Arakkal, Anuradha Nalapat, TM Aziz, Gurudas Shenoy, cartoonist Ponnappa and, Jatin Das.
 
Her vision for the future is to grow into a global bio-therapeutics company with very innovative and proprietary products and technologies.
We wish her luck for her all future endeavours.