Rajshree Pathy

Rajshree Pathy
Born	15 April Coimbatore, India
Residence	Coimbatore / Delhi, India
Occupation	Chairman, Managing Director of Rajshree Sugars and Chemicals Limited and Founder of India Design Forum
Title	Chairman and Managing Director
Spouse(s)	S.Pathy
Children	Aishwarya Pathy, Aditya Krishna Pathy

Rajshree Pathy is an eminent entrepreneur from Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India. She is the chairperson and managing director of the Rajshree Group of Companies and founder of India Design Forum.^[1] The Rajshree group has varied interests, including food and agro business, energy, travel, health and hospitality and arts. Pathy also promotes performing arts and contemporary art movement in Coimbatore through the Contemplate Art Gallery and COCCA.

Background

Rajshree Pathy is the daughter of famous industrialist Shri G. Varadaraj, of PSG Families engaged in Charities and Educational Institutions for more than a century. Her father was also a former Rajya Sabha MP. She is married to S. Pathy, chairman and managing director of Lakshmi Mills.

Company

Rajshree Sugars and Chemicals Ltd. is a company with interests across integrated fields such as sugar, distillery, power co-generation and biotechnology. The range of products includes white sugar, alcohol, organic manure, bio-products and power. A specialty demerara sugar is marketed under the brand name RSCL Sugar Brown. RSCL, with its corporate office in Coimbatore, has three modern sugar-manufacturing units located in Tamil Nadu: one at Varadaraj Nagar, Theni District; the second at Mundiampakkam,Villupuram ; and the third at Gingee, Villupuram District. RSCL also has a sugar factory located at Zaheerabad, Medak District in Andhra Pradesh.

Activities

Rajshree Pathy inherited her father's business following his death in 1992. She has been looking after the business since then.

She is the founder director of the Coimbatore Center for Contemporary Art (CoCCA) and the Contemplate Art Gallery. She is the founder of the India Design Forum (IDF). IDF is the first international design platform that will be held annually in India, by bringing together global design thought leaders to enable strategic alliances, encourage dialogue between academia and industry and facilitate cross-cultural design thinking and application.

Awards and Recognition

She has been awarded with several distinctions at the national and global level and has consistently been included and lauded in many compendiums of business leaders.

• In 1996, Rajshree Pathy received the Global Leaders of Tomorrow recognition from the World Economic Forum, Davos (Switzerland).
• She was awarded the Eisenhower Exchange Fellowship in 2000.
• She has been the president of Indian Sugar Mills Association from 2004 to 2005.
• She was the chairperson of CII National Committee on Textiles from 1996 to 1999.
• She has been conferred with the prestigious Padma Shri Award in the field of Trade and Industry by the Government of India in 2013.

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