1. Ajay Gopikisan Piramal was born on 3 August 1955 and is an Indian billionaire businessman, and the chairman of the Piramal Group, a conglomerate with interests in pharmaceutical, financial services, real estate, healthcare analytics and glass packaging.
Ajay Piramal was born to Gopikisan Piramal and Lalita Piramal in Rajasthan, India on 3 August 1955.
In 1977, at age 22, Piramal started out in his family's textile business, founded in 1934 by his grandfather Piramal Chatrabhuj.
Ajay Piramal holds a bachelor's degree in Science from the Jai Hind College and Basantsingh Institute of Science, University of Mumbai, a master's degree in management studies from Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies, University of Mumbai, and in 1992 attended the six-week Advanced Management Programme at Harvard Business School.
Ajay Piramal has received an honorary doctorate by Amity University, India and Honorary Doctor of Science from IIT Indore.
In 1988, Ajay Piramal bought Nicholas Laboratories, an Australian multinational corporation.
Ajay Piramal is ranked fifth among pharma companies in India, having made a string of overseas acquisitions like the Indian subsidiaries of Roche, Boehringer Mannheim, Rhone Poulenc, ICI and Hoechst Research Centre.
Ajay Piramal announced in 2019 he planned to resign as chairman of Shriram Capital Ltd.
The Ajay Piramal Foundation is the philanthropic arm of the Ajay Piramal Group.
Ajay Piramal is among the Advisory Committee Members of Annamrita, ISKCON Food Relief Foundation that serves 1.2 million meals through its 20 kitchens across India every day.