Aug 17, 1976New Delhi, Delhi, India47 years oldLeo
About Poonam Gupta
Poonam Gupta OBE (born 1976 in Delhi, India) is a Scottish-Indian entrepreneur and philanthropist who emigrated to Scotland from India in 2002.
Poonam Gupta was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for her services to the business and charity in the 2017 New Year Honours.
She completed her early schooling years in Delhi at Lady Irwin School and Delhi Public School where she got admission on merit to complete her high schooling.
She went onto complete an Honours Degree in Economics from Shri Ram College of Commerce in Delhi before gaining an MBA in International Business and Marketing at FORE School of Management, Delhi and Maastricht School of Management in Holland.
She arrived in the west of Scotland after marrying Puneet, a Belfast-born pharmacist of Indian descent.
Together they have two daughters, the first born in 2005 and the second two years later in 2007.
During her second pregnancy, Poonam suffered from a rare form of bone tuberculosis which left her in a wheelchair for 18 months.