Samir Mehta
$7.2B
Born
Sep 18, 1963
Age
62
Source of Wealth
Pharmaceuticals, power
Residence
Ahmedabad,
Citizenship
India
Marital Status
Married
Children
2
Education
- Samir Mehta gets the bulk of his wealth from Torrent Pharmaceuticals, flagship of his family's Ahmedabad-based Torrent Group.
- The 65-year-old company was founded by his late father Uttambhai Nathalal Mehta, who was a salesman for Swiss pharma giant Sandoz.
- He also has a stake in Torrent Power, which provides electricity in his home state of Gujarat and two other states.
- While Samir Mehta runs the pharma unit, his older sibling Sudhir's son,Jinal, oversees the power firm.
- In 2022 Torrent Group forayed into the diagnostics business by setting up Torrent Diagnostics.
- His father started his career as a government clerk in 1944.
- His sons Aman and Shaan work in the pharma business.
- To mark the birth centenary of their late father, he and his billionaire brother Sudhir committed over $600 million to the family's UNM Foundation in March 2024.
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