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 Recipient
of the India Young Business Achiever Award for 1996-97,
Raghavendra Rao is the Managing Director of Orchid
Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals Limited. This is the
country's largest manufacturer and exporter of oral and
sterile Cephalosporins, is also among the top five
producers in this sector globally.
Graduating from IIM-Ahmedabad in 1979, Rao turned around a
sick unit in a year's time, at Pure Ice Creams (P) Limited.
After a 4-year stint at Ashok Leyland, he joined Standard
Organics as Vice President in 1986. He then went on to set
up four projects in the Sultanate of Oman, for the Al
Buraimi Group.
Rao started Orchid Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals in 1994
and is steering the organisation towards perennial growth.
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