John Shaw was a foreign promoter and was on the advisory board of various Biocon Group companies
John Shaw was a foreign promoter and was on the advisory board of various Biocon Group companies
John Shaw, Vice Chairman and Non-Executive Director of Biocon and husband of Biocon Founder and Executive Chairman Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, passed away on Monday morning.
“We lost John this morning. It is a very sad day for Kiran and the entire Biocon family,” said a senior company official. Hindu,
John had been undergoing treatment for cancer for some time, however, until a few weeks ago he was fine and managing. Kiran Shaw lost her mother Yamini Majumdar, who is also an entrepreneur, to cancer in June this year.
John was a foreign promoter and on the advisory board of various Biocon group companies. He was also the former Chairman of Madura Coates Limited and the former Head of Finance and Managing Director of the Cots Viyala Group.
He did an MA (Economics Honours) in History and Political Economy from the University of Glasgow, UK and received an honorary doctorate from the University of Glasgow.
In 1998, Kiran Mazumdar married the 1949-born Scotsman John Shaw.