Ronnie Screwvala
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| Born | Mumbai, Maharashtra, India |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Occupation | Founder UTV Group (Now Walt Disney India), Founder Trustee of Swades Foundation, Founder of Unilazer Ventures, Board of Advisor AIESEC India |
| Years active | 1981- Present |
| Spouse(s) | Zarina Mehta |
| Children | Trishya Screwvala |
Rohinton Soli "Ronnie" Screwvala is an Indian entrepreneur and philanthropist. He was the founder and CEO of UTV Group (UTV Software Communications, Bloomberg UTV, and UTV Motion Pictures), which was founded in the year 1990. Screwvala was the Managing Director of Disney- UTV India, Managing Trustee of the Swades Foundation and Founder & Advisor: at Unilazer Ventures Ltd., (a privately held PE/VC & Business Company). He has also founded UpGrad (UEducation Pvt. Ltd.), an online education company.
In January 2014, Ronnie exited the company he founded and in the process he also exited media and entertainment sector.
He has been named on Esquire's List of the 75 Most Influential People of the 21st Century (September 2008) and ranked 78 among the 100 most influential people in the world on the Time 100 (complied by Time Magazine, 2009). He was also listed amongst 25 Asia’s Most Powerful by Fortune Magazine, titled the Jack Warner of India by Newsweek, and named Entrepreneur of the year by Ernst & Young.
Screwvala was born in Mumbai in a Parsi family. His father was an executive at the British firms J L Morrison and Smith & Nephew. Screwvala studied at Cathedral and John Connon School and Sydenham College.
Screwvala also had a keen interest in theatre while in school and acted in professional plays with Bombay theatre greats like Pearl and Alyque Padamsee. He portrayed the roles of Harold ‘Happy’ Loman in Death of a Salesman and Cassio in Othello. Screwvala’s theatre career ended when he stopped going for rehearsals to start his own toothbrush business.
Screwvala is married to Zarina Mehta, his second marriage. They live in Breach Candy, South Mumbai. His first wife's father was Suresh Nanavati, Chairman of Nanavati Hospital in Mumbai and owner of Western Outdoor Advertising which at the time was one of India's largest post-production studios.
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