Rajshree Pathy
Chairman and Managing Director
Rajshree Sugars and Chemicals Ltd.
Quick chat with Rajshree Pathy, Member of DWENIndia
A female entrepreneur you admire and why?
I admire all female entrepreneurs as they face a lot of challenges to be able to achieve and get to positions of leadership. Being a woman means having to play the role of a mother, daughter and a partner and society expects us to be super women. My work brings me in contact with women in rural India and I salute their tenacity and sheer physical work to feed their children, provide them education and manage a household on meagre earnings. Many such children are now engineers and doctors and have crossed the oceans to become successful and are brought up by such mothers.
Mantra for success is?
Define your vision, set realistic goals, learn from the environment, stay humble, remain focussed.
Being your own boss is to you?
Being a boss means assuming vast proportions of responsibility, being fair, treating employees like individuals and not a statistic on the payroll and providing leadership to the organisation, inspiring the larger society and creating value to all the constituents of the business.
Your DWEN Experience and how would you sum it?
DWEN has been truly an amazing network of brilliant women of all ages bringing in different points of view to success in business. I have always respected the values of the Founder, Michaei Dell and that resonates in every aspect of the DWEN community.
Profile:
Mrs. Rajshree Pathy is the Chairman and Managing Director of Rajshree Sugars and Chemicals Ltd., an integrated sugar company located in South India, with major interests in sugar, alcohol and fuel ethanol, renewable energy, agri-Biotech, organic fertilizers and food products. She is the Founder of Indian Design Forum (IDF) – India’s first Global Design platform for Innovation and Design and Kama Ayurveda, a pure Ayurvedic Cosmetic brand. She has successfully steered various business enterprises and has earned many accolades and recognitions in her career as a leading industrialist. She was conferred the Padma Shri in 2013, nominated as a “Global Leader for Tomorrow” at the World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland and has been awarded an Eisenhower Fellowship.
