Rank #2264
Satyanarayana Chava
Net worth $1.8B
pharmaceuticals · India
- Born
- Mar 10, 1961
- Age
- 65
- Source
- pharmaceuticals
- Residence
- Hyderabad
- Citizenship
- India
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 2
- Education
- Bachelor of Science, Andhra University; Master of Science, Andhra University
Net worth over time
Biography
- Satyanarayana Chava is the founder and CEO of Laurus Labs, a pharma and biotech company in Hyderabad, in southern India.
- Chava worked in the pharma sector for two decades before starting Laurus Labs as an R&D firm in 2005.
- Today, the $658 million (revenue) company supplies pharma ingredients for drugs to treat HIV, cancer, asthma and diabetes.
- Chava remains passionate about research spending 25% of his time in the labs and getting involved with new products.
- Chava is listed as an inventor, along with others, in 145 patents granted to his company.
- In his spare time, Chava enjoys cooking Indian food and sweets.
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