Poonawalla is EY Entrepreneur of The Year

Cyrus S Poonawalla, chairman and managing director of Serum Institute of India, who pioneered the development of affordable life-saving vaccines and is counted among the largest vaccine manufacturers worldwide was on Wednesday named the EY Entrepreneur of The Year 2014. K Radhakrishnan, former chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro), who also oversaw the breakthrough Mangalyaan mission to Mars last year, was honoured with the EY Lifetime Achievement Award.

Poonawalla will now represent India at the EY World Entrepreneur of the Year Award in Monte Carlo from June 3 till 7, 2015. Kunal Bahl and Rohit Bansal, chief executive officer (CEO) and chief operation officer (COO) respectively, of Snapdeal, got the Entrepreneur Of The Year award in the start-up category.

Ajit Prabhu, chairman and CEO of QuEST Global got it for the services category and Yogesh Mahansaria, CEO, Alliance Tire Group for the manufacturing category. Arundhati Bhattacharya, chairman, State Bank of India, was the Entrepreneurial CEO of The Year.