13 Facts About Ronnie Screwvala

Rohinton Soli "Ronnie" Screwvala was born on 8 September 1956 and is an Indian entrepreneur.

Ronnie Screwvala has been named on Esquire's List of the 75 Most Influential People of the 21st Century and ranked 78 among the 100 most influential people in the world on the Time 100.

Ronnie Screwvala was listed amongst 25 Asia's Most Powerful people by Fortune Magazine.

Ronnie Screwvala was born in Bombay into a Parsi family.

Ronnie Screwvala schooled and went to college in Mumbai at Cathedral and John Connon School and Sydenham College.

Ronnie Screwvala had a keen interest in theatre while in school and acted in professional plays with Bombay theatre as a hobby.

Ronnie Screwvala played notable roles in Shakespeare's Othello and Death of a Salesman.

Opportunistic in the early days of his entrepreneurship, Ronnie Screwvala founded a toothbrush manufacturing company.

Ronnie Screwvala's is credited with pioneering Cable TV in India at a time when there was a single terrestrial channel and grew that to multiple cities and most of the hotel chains in India.

Ronnie Screwvala hosted a quiz show Mashoor Mahal in Doordarshan in 1985.

Ronnie Screwvala founded UTV and over the period grew it into a media conglomerate spanning a leading movie studio, a Games Studio and creative content company that went public and listed on stock exchanges in 2005 and into which Disney gradually took a substantial stake until he divested the whole company to them in 2012.

Ronnie Screwvala co-founded upGrad, which is one of the largest Online Education companies in India - focused on the higher Education and Specialization sector.

Ronnie Screwvala co-founded U Sports with a focus on three sports, Kabaddi a popular sport in India and around Asia, E Sports and in Football where under the brand U Dreams the focus is to train and manage talent under various years of age for a sustained duration, and then manage their careers for the long term to play professionally in India and globally.