Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, chairperson and managing director of Biocon, has been named the EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2019 and will now represent India at the EY World Entrepreneur of the Year Award in Monte Carlo from June 4-6 this year. Awards were also announced for nine other categories.

Adi Godrej, chairman, Godrej Group, received the lifetime achievement award.

The winners in the various categories were Falguni Nayar, founder and CEO of Nykaa E-Retail and Tuhin Parikh, senior MD of Blackstone India.

Other winners include Arun Bharat Ram, chairman of SRF, Sridhar Vembu, founder of Zoho Corp, Yashish Dahiya, CEO of PolicyBazaar; Kuldip Singh Dhingra, chairman, and Gurbachan Singh Dhingra, vice-chairman, Berger Paints; Arvind Lal, CMD, and Om Manchanda, CEO, of Dr Lal PathLabs; K.B. S. Anand, CEO of Asian Paints, and Ravi and Neel Raheja, group presidents of K. Raheja Corp.