Rank #1407
Mahima Datla
Net worth $3.0B
Vaccines · India
- Born
- Jul 16, 1977
- Age
- 48
- Source
- Vaccines
- Residence
- Hyderabad
- Citizenship
- India
- Marital status
- Single
- Children
- 0
- Education
- Bachelor of Business Administration, Webster University
Net worth over time
Biography
- Mahima Datla is the managing director of Biological E, a privately held vaccine producer, in which she holds a controlling stake.
- The Hyderabad-based company's portfolio includes Corbevax, a Covid-19 vaccine developed in partnership with Texas Children's Hospital Center for Vaccine Development and Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.
- Biological E has 10 vaccines pre-qualified by the World Health Organization including those against polio, tetanus and measles. It exports vaccines to more than 130 countries.
- Biological E was founded in 1953 by her paternal and maternal grandfathers.
- In July 2025 Bioligcal E struck a licensing agreement with China's Jiangsu Recbio Technology to manufacture and commercialize HPV vaccines to combat cancer.
- Datla has a bachelor's degree in business management from London's Webster University. She became managing director in 2013.
- In 2022, she won a nearly decade-long battle with her mother over the company's ownership that went up to India's Supreme Court.