Habil khorakiwala wikipedia

Zahabiya Khorakiwala has a matter-of-fact approach to both success and failure.

Ups and downs are inseparable aspects of running a business, shrugs the 33-year-old managing director of the Rs 253-crore (as of FY2014) Wockhardt Hospitals.

She has learnt her calm from the best. Her father Habil Khorakiwala, chairman and group CEO of Wockhardt, showed grace under pressure during his group’s troubled years.

Zahabiya had a ringside view to his approach, and has displayed a similar attitude over the last six years.

It certainly helps her confidence that ever since she assumed a larger role in 2010, Wockhardt has seen the launch of its largest hospital in South Mumbai as well as the introduction of several new departments like paediatric cardiology, mother and child care, and aesthetics and plastic surgery.

Simply put, there have been more ups than