Portrait of Bhadresh Shah

Rank #1578

Bhadresh Shah

Net worth $2.7B

Engineering · India

Born
Oct 07, 1951
Age
74
Source
Engineering
Residence
Ahmedabad
Citizenship
India
Marital status
Married
Children
2
Education
Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology

Net worth over time

Biography

  • Bhadresh Shah founded and runs AIA Engineering, a niche metallurgical company in Ahmedabad city.
  • Shah started a small foundry in 1978 and parlayed it into a $540 million (revenue) company.
  • AIA is the world's second largest manufacturer of high chromium grinding parts (by sales) for the cement, mining and power industries.
  • Shah is a metallurgy engineer from the premier Indian Institute of Technology (Kanpur).
  • Shah also sits on the Board of Zydus Lifesciences, controlled by pharma billionaire Pankaj Patel.
  • Shah hails from a family of doctors but chose to study engineering rather than medicine.
  • Shah is a wine connoisseur.

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