Rank #2058
Vikram Punia
Net worth $2.0B
Pharmaceuticals · Russia
- Born
- Mar 15, 1973
- Age
- 53
- Source
- Pharmaceuticals
- Residence
- Moscow
- Citizenship
- Russia
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 3
- Education
- Masters in Finance, Far Eastern State Academy of Economics and Management
Net worth over time
Biography
- Vikram Punia is the sole owner of Russian pharmaceutical company Pharmasyntez, a leading supplier of drugs under government contracts. He produces antitubercular, antineoplastic, antiretroviral medicines and antibiotics.
- Punia was born in India in 1973. He entered Irkutsk Medical Higher School in Siberia in 1992 and left after two years to start a business reselling tea, leather jackets and pantyhose.
- He founded his pharmaceutical business in 1997 and within two years had his first factory in Irkuts that repackaged generic antitubercular medicine imported from India.
- He moved to Moscow in 2008 and relocated the company's headquarters there. In 2009, he became a Russian citizen and, in 2010, became sole owner of the company.
- Pharmasyntez has deals with local politicians, including in the Saha/Yakutia Republic and in Moscow, where in 2005 he began producing oncological drugs as a resident of the Technopolis-Moscow Special Economic Area.
- Vikram Singh Punia is a member of the Kshatriya caste, a Hindu class associated with warriors and rulers.
- He was born into a family of a wealthy local developer in Jaipur, the capital of India's largest state, Rajasthan.