Ameera Shah

Taking a family pathology business international

Ameera Shah is the Manging Director of Metropolis Healthcare, a chain of pathology labs spread across India, South Asia, and Africa.  Shah transformed Metropolis Labs, started in 1981 by her father Dr. Sushil Shah as a single unit in Mumbai operating out of their home garage, into a flourishing multi-national business. The company has market capitalization of over INR 11000 crores and reported return on equity of 20% in the last financial year where the industry average was less than 10% during the same period.

As a student completing her degree in finance from the University of Texas, Ameera Shah saw an opportunity to build and grow her father’s medical testing lab business into a brand that stood for quality, safety and hygiene. She began her journey at Metropolis in the early 2000s starting at the bottom, in customer servicing roles. According to Ameera Shah, this experience helped her understand ground-level issues of the business.  In the subsequent years, she led business expansion of the company and saw it through three rounds of PE investments and a hugely successful public offering.

Ameera Shah faced and overcame challenges across many spheres— social, financial, familial and corporate to take Metropolis to a leading brand in the country. Metropolis provided extensive support to India’s fight against COVID-19 and is credited with conducting more than half a million RT-PCR tests across the country.