Rajshree Pathy

Rajshree Pathy

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  • Name:
  • Rajshree Pathy
  • Father:
  • G. Varadaraj
  • Spouse:
  • S. Pathy

Rajshree Pathy Biography

Rajshree Pathy is a noted woman entrepreneur from Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu who founded India Design Forum in Mumbai. Currently she serves as the Chairperson and Managing Director of the Rajshree Group of Companies including Rajshree Sugars & Chemicals. Rajshree group has diversified business products including Travel, Health, Food and Arts. She is also known as a patron of the arts, an industrialist, and a spokesperson for the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII). Through the Contemplate Art Gallery and COCCA, she promotes contemporary art movement in Coimbatore. She is the Founder Director of the Coimbatore Center for Contemporary Art (CoCCA). Pathy has managed to carve a unique identity for self, as an independent woman of today.

 

Her father is a famous industrialist and politician, G. Varadaraj, based on Coimbatore. She is married to S. Pathy, Chairman and Managing director of Lakshmi Mills. Rajshree Pathy inherited her father's business, following his death in 1992 and looking after the business since then. She is best known for sugar and chemical business, though Rajshree group has entered diversified business ideas like food, arts, energy and Agro business. She owns a vivacious personality and an inherent love of travel and for the people with whom she works with, more than a CEO she is a person with friendly nature. Multitasking too comes easily to her and she finds time for promotion of work related to contemporary art.

 

She initiated the India Design Forum (IDF), the first one of this kind which brings design leaders from different sectors together. She is known to be a no-nonsense lady with a sensitive approach. In 1996, she was awarded with Global Leaders of Tomorrow recognition from the World Economic Forum, Davos.

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Updated: May 07, 2014

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