Chairman and Managing Director
Biocon
Country: IndiaBiocon
2006 rank: 48
Founder of the company that made her India's richest self-made businesswoman, Mazumdar-Shaw, 52, is proud that 1,000 cancer patients have been treated in the past year with BIOMAb, Biocon's first proprietary drug. Revenues rose 28%, to $227 million, and profits 18%, to $46 million.