Leena Tewari
$3.0B
Born
Sep 03, 1957
Age
68
Source of Wealth
Pharmaceuticals
Residence
Mumbai,
Citizenship
India
Marital Status
Married
Children
2
Education
Master of Business Administration, Boston University; B.Com, University of Mumbai
- The media-shy heir of a pharma fortune, Leena Tewari chairs privately held USV India, which her late father Vithal Gandhi set up with Revlon in 1961.
- USV specializes in diabetic and cardiovascular drugs, with a portfolio that spans biosimilar drugs, injectables and active pharmaceutical ingredients.
- The Mumbai company is run by her husband, Prashant, an Indian Institute of Technology grad and mechanical engineer from Cornell University.
- Her daughter Aneesha Gandhi Tewari, who has a Ph.D. in molecular biology from MIT, and son Vilas, who founded a gaming outfit in Los Angeles, both have board seats at USV.
- Tewari loves animals and travels into forests across India.
- In 2018, USV acquired German generics firm Juta Pharma for an undisclosed sum.
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