Portrait of Hasmukh Chudgar & family

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Hasmukh Chudgar & family

Net worth $7.6B

Pharmaceuticals · India

Born
Sep 19, 1933
Age
92
Source
Pharmaceuticals
Residence
Ahmedabad
Citizenship
India
Marital status
Married
Children
3
Education

Net worth over time

Biography

  • Low profile Hasmukh Chudgar founded generics maker Intas Pharmaceuticals in 1977.
  • Chudgar has long handed over operations to his sons Nimish and Binish, who run the $3.5 billion (revenue) company.
  • In August 2025, Intas Pharma acquired biosimilar company Udenyca from California-based Coherus Life Sciences for $558 million.
  • The company's portfolio includes an affordable drug to treat breast cancer called Eleftha, which is similar to Roche's Herceptin.
  • In 2022, the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority bought a 3% stake in Intas from Temasek.
  • Chudgar's third son Urmish heads the company's biopharma business and is a haematologist-oncologist.
  • The company's biggest markets are Europe and India.