Maharukh T Rustomjee: A Thorough Scientist With A Business Woman's Instincts
In an in-depth conversation with the Women Entrepreneur team, Maharukh T Rustomjee takes us along on her professional journey and speaks to us about her new venture Amaterasu Lifesciences.
- (1888PressRelease) November 30, 2021 - Take us through your educational and professional journey. What factors played a role in you becoming a leader in the pharma industry?
I come from a lower-middle-class modest background and spent my early years at Ahmednagar. My mother was a revolutionary woman, who decided very early that her daughters would not be homemakers like her but career women who would be financially independent. She pushed me to take my education seriously and I was very good at it from the start. I got into a three-year pharmacy course at the Institute of Chemical Technology and I enjoyed it. And I realized that this was as good as medicine because it deals with treating patients, developing innovative solutions and manufacturing medicinal and healthcare products to treat various health conditions. During my Master's at ICT, the programme was based on research, where it was clear to me that this is what really excited me. My quest in life since then, has been to keep learning and continue evolving as a pharmaceutical products research scientist.
I started working in the industry right after graduating and have been here for over 35 years. In the first 15 of those years, I worked with big pharma companies such as Ciba Geigy, Novartis, GSK, in various capacities, like R&D, scale-up, tech transform and even part of manufacturing. My personality as a detail oriented, perseverant and customer focused person helped me to learn the trade and develop the thought process and skills to be a good researcher.
After several roles and positions in big pharma companies, I realized that I needed to evolve, take on more challenges in a nonconventional way so that I could use my research training in a meaningful way. I left the multinational job in 1998 and joined a very small company which was trading and marketing specialty chemicals to pharma companies, with the responsibility as head of the technical marketing division. That was my first exposure to handling commercial business aspects of any entity in an entrepreneurial role. Working there and getting hands-on experience gave me the confidence after six months, that I was now capable of starting something on my own.
My motto, as a scientist, is to keep it as simple as possible by using the latest advances in science so that the products we develop are effective and solve the patient/consumer problem, safe, as well as easily manufacturable and cost effective. I am always looking for avenues to learn new concepts and advances in the field. I bring that to my leadership style too: because I am always wanting to learn and I always want to mentor my younger team members.
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Know more about Amaterasu Lifesciences' products here - https://www.sorezecare.com/
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