Namita Thapar is an Indian entrepreneur. She is the Executive Director of Emcure Pharmaceuticals (till 2022), an Indian multinational pharmaceutical company headquartered in Pune, Maharashtra.
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Namita Thapar was born on Monday, 21 March 1977 (age 46 years; as in 2023) in Pune, Maharashtra. His zodiac sign is Aries. He completed his primary and secondary education in a school in Pune. While in school, Namita gave up all extra-curricular activities and focused her full attention on her studies. She was a bright student and always stood first in her class (during school days). After completing her schooling, Namita joined Pune’s Savitribai Phule University to pursue B.Com. Meanwhile, he also did Chartered Accountancy from ICAI. Thereafter, he did his MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.
Physical Appearance
Height (Approx): 5′ 5″
Hair Colour: Dark Brown
Eye Colour: Black
Family
Namita belongs to a Gujarati family.
parents and siblings
Namita’s father, Satish Mehta, is an Indian businessman. He is the founder of Emcure Pharmaceuticals. His mother’s name is Bhavna Mehta. He has a younger brother, Samit Mehta, who is the President of R&D of Emcure Pharmaceuticals.
Namita Thapar with her parents
husband and children
Namita Thapar is married to businessman Vikas Thapar. The couple has two sons, Veer Thapar and Jai Thapar, who are named after Namita’s favorite film, Sholay.
Namita Thapar with her husband Vikas Thapar
Namita Thapar with her family
livelihood
After completing her MBA, Namita worked for a while at GlaxoSmithKline, a British multinational pharmaceutical and biotechnology company headquartered in London. Later, he got a job at Guidant Corporation, a medical device company in the United States. He began working there as the Business Finance Lead in the Financial Planning Department. He served the company in various capacities for about 6 years. Thereafter, she joined Emcure Pharmaceuticals as CFO. Gradually, her operational area in the company increased and she started looking after the Indian business of the company. As of 2022, he is serving as the Executive Director of Emcure Pharmaceuticals.
Namita Thapar in Malaysia at the Emcure Sales Awards
In 2017, he founded the education company ‘Incredible Ventures Limited’. The company aims to promote youth entrepreneurship by developing entrepreneurial skills among children in the age group of 11-18 years. It has branches in Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai and Ahmedabad.
Namita Thapar during a session at Incredible Ventures Ltd.
Thapar is a board member of the Fuqua School of Business’s Regional Advisory Board. Namita is an active member of Young Presidents Organization. She is also a Trustee of the TiE Mumbai Board of Trustees. In December 2021, she appeared as a jury member in Shark Tank India, the Indian adaptation of the popular American business reality show ‘Shark Tank’. The show consists of a panel of potential judges also known as sharks who listen to and invest in various new business models and ideas.
Namita Thapar in Shark Tank India
She is also associated with various government initiatives like ‘Women Entrepreneurship Forum’ and NITI Aayog’s ‘Digital Health Task Force’ and ‘Champions of Change’. These programs were launched by PM Narendra Modi as a part of G2B partnership in policy making. Namita is an entrepreneur as well as a writer. In August 2022, he released his book The Dolphin and the Shark (Stories on Entrepreneurship). Published by Penguin Random House India, the book unfolds Namita’s journey from an overweight Gujarati girl with low self-esteem to a successful entrepreneur who took her father’s business to new heights.
The Dolphin and the Shark book by Namita Thapar
Awards and Honors
- The Economic Times Women Ahead List 2017
- The Economic Times ’40 Under Forty’ List of India’s Hottest Young Business Leaders 2017
- Barclays Hurun identifies the next generation of leaders
- World Women’s Leadership Congress Super Achiever Award
Favorite
- Costume Designer: Anamika Khanna
facts/common sense
- Namita enjoys traveling and reading in her spare time.
- He is fond of watching Bollywood movies. During an interview, she told that before her marriage, she used to go to the theater for the First Day First Show of almost all Bollywood movies. Namita further revealed that she named her children Veer and Jai after the main characters of the Bollywood film Sholay (1975).
- In an interview, Namita revealed that she grew up with her brother and eight siblings and all of them stood first in their classes except Namita. Namita came second in her class and her family members never congratulated her for this.
- Popular Indian banker Naina Lal Kidwai and Indian-American business tycoon Indra Nooyi are her inspirations.
Namita Thapar with Naina Lal Kidwai
- In an interview, Namita talked about the three Ms. who help her maintain her physical and mental balance. He said,
I relax in three ways – massage, movies and meditation. I make sure I schedule time for this on a regular basis so that I don’t reach that breaking point.
- She has been a part of several government (Indian) initiatives including NITI Aayog’s Women Entrepreneurship Platform and ‘Champions of Change’ programme. The programs were launched by PM Narendra Modi for G2B partnership in policy making.
Namita Thapar is part of the government’s NITI Aayog program
- Namita is a public speaker and has spoken at various prestigious forums like Harvard Business School, Indian Institute of Management (IIM-Ahmedabad), ET Women’s Conference and FICCI.
Namita Thapar speaking at the Women’s Health Conference in Hyderabad
- During an interview, when Namita was asked about her personal policy on gadgets, she replied,
I am addicted to my phone as most of my work is done on e-mail and WhatsApp and I enjoy Twitter and podcasts. However, I make sure I don’t take my phone with me to meetings. It is absolutely disrespectful to the speakers if you keep checking messages during the presentation and I am very particular about my work ethic which should reflect basic etiquette and a certain class. My son commented on how busy I was on the phone and from that day forward I tried to check my messages only once every hour when I was home. I am trying to increase it to once every two hours. ,
- When she was working in Guidant Corporation, USA, a director of the company named Namita as ‘Velvet Hammer’.
- During the COVID-19 pandemic, Namita along with Namita Thapar created a YouTube channel called Uncondition Yourself. On the channel, she uploads videos of her talk show which aims to provide authentic information and break the stigma and taboos associated with women’s health.
- Namita had said on The Kapil Sharma Show in February 2022 that Amitabh Bachchan was her favorite actor and after him she never liked anyone else. Namita said,
Bachchan sir ruined my whole life. After that I didn’t like anyone else. It is a great tragedy.
Namita Thapar with Amitabh Bachchan
- In an interview, when Namita was asked about her leadership style, she said,
I believe in three mantras – less is more, hire people smarter than you and focus on rigor of execution. I try to practice the 3 C’s – Courage, Competence and Compassion.
- Namita Thapar follows a gluten-free vegetarian diet.
- Namita abstains from drinking alcohol.
- In an interview, Namita Thapar confessed that she was an emotional eater for almost 30 years. He further revealed that he had put on a lot of weight due to his habit of overeating during high stress times like Class X and XII board exams, Chartered Accountant final exams and MBA exams. However, she decided to change her habit and make health and fitness her priority after which she lost a lot of weight and got fit.
- A fitness enthusiast, Namita works out six days a week. Her workout routine includes a combination of dance aerobics, functional training, yoga and evening walks.
- In a conversation with Chetan Bhagat on YouTube’s talk show DeepTalk, Namita revealed that she was embarrassed by being overweight and having facial hair as a teenager. He said,
I wasn’t like this when I was a kid. I was very overweight, I had a lot of facial hair and acne, I was very embarrassed when I was a teenager… and I felt very ugly.
he adds,
None of the boys looked at me, it was me looking at boys and crushing on them, let’s just say it. When you’re body shamed like that as a teenager, it leaves a lot of scars… I had a lot of facial hair and acne, and there was a boy in my class who called me ‘mustache girl’ in Marathi.
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