1. Dilip Shanghvi was born on 1 October 1955 and is an Indian billionaire businessman.
11 Facts About Dilip Shanghvi
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Dilip Shanghvi was born in the small town of Amreli in the Indian state of Gujarat, the son of Shantilal Shanghvi and his wife Kumud Shanghvi.
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Dilip Shanghvi earned a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Calcutta.
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Dilip Shanghvi spent his childhood and college life with his parents in the Burrabazar locality of Kolkata.
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Dilip Shanghvi is an alumnus of JJ Ajmera High School and Bhawanipur Education Society College, where he did his schooling and graduation, respectively.
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Dilip Shanghvi started by helping his father in his business, which was a wholesale dealership of medicines, mainly generic drugs, in Kolkata.
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In 1982, the 27-year-old Dilip Shanghvi finally opened his first manufacturing unit with a capital of INR 10,000.
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Dilip Shanghvi stepped down as chairman and CEO in 2012 and chose Israel Makov, formerly CEO of Teva Pharmaceuticals, as his successor; Dilip Shanghvi became managing director.
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Dilip Shanghvi is chairman of the board of governors at IIT Bombay.
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Dilip Shanghvi was made a trustee of the Rhodes scholarship programme at Oxford University in 2017.
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Dilip Shanghvi is a devotee of Shrinathji and makes regular pilgrimage with his family to the deity's abode in the city of Nathdwara in Rajasthan.