Namita Thapar is an Indian entrepreneur. She is the Executive Director of Emcure Pharmaceuticals (as of 2022), an Indian multinational pharmaceutical company headquartered in Pune, Maharashtra. She was born on Monday, 21 March 1977 in Pune, Maharashtra.
Namita Thapar completed her primary and secondary education at a school in Pune. While in school, She gave up all extracurricular activities and put her entire focus on academics. After completing her schooling, She enrolled herself at Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, to pursue B.Com. Meanwhile, she also pursued Chartered Accountancy from ICAI. Thereafter, she pursued an MBA from Fuqua School of Business at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.
She started working at GlaxoSmithKline, a British multinational pharmaceutical and biotechnology company headquartered in London. Afterwards, she got placed at Guidant Corporation, a medical device company in the USA. She began working there in the financial planning department as a business finance lead.
She also served the company in various capacities for around 6 years. Subsequently, she joined Emcure Pharmaceuticals as CFO. Slowly, her operation area expanded in the company and she started looking after the Indian business of the company. As of 2022, she is serving as the Executive Director of Emcure Pharmaceuticals.
Namita Thapar is also a Board Member of the Regional Advisory Board of Fuqua School of Business. Namita is an active member of the Young Presidents Organization. She is also a trustee on 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 features a panel of potential judges also known as Sharks who listen to various new business models and ideas and invest in them.
Namita Thapar is also associated with various government initiatives like ‘The Women Entrepreneurship Platform’ and ‘Digital Health Task Force’ by NITI Aayog and ‘Champions of Change.’ The programs were launched by PM Narendra Modi as a part of G2B partnership in policy making. Besides being an entrepreneur, Namita is also an author.
In August 2022, she released her book The Dolphin and the Shark (Stories on Entrepreneurship). Published by Penguin Random House India, the book unearths Namita’s journey from being an overweight Gujarati girl with low self-esteem to a successful entrepreneur who took her father’s business to new heights.
