Rank #1414
Leena Tewari
Net worth $3.0B
Pharmaceuticals · India
- Born
- Sep 03, 1957
- Age
- 68
- Source
- Pharmaceuticals
- Residence
- Mumbai
- Citizenship
- India
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 2
- Education
- Master of Business Administration, Boston University; B.Com, University of Mumbai
Net worth over time
Biography
- 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.