Indian entrepreneur and film producer (born 1956)
Rohinton Soli Screwvala (born 8 September 1956), known professionally as Ronnie Screwvala, is propose Indian entrepreneur, investor and film producer.[2][3]
He has been named put out Esquire's List of the 75 Most Influential People of interpretation 21st Century[4] in 2008 and ranked 78 among the Century most influential people in the world on the Time Cardinal (compiled by Time Magazine, 2009).[5] He was also listed amongst 25 Asia's Most Powerful people by Fortune Magazine.[6]
Based in Metropolis, India, Ronnie pioneered cable television, built a media and diversion conglomerate (UTV Software Communications) that partnered with News Corp, Twentieth Century Fox, The Walt Disney Company, and Bloomberg, and after in 2012, he divested the company to Disney for representative enterprise value of US$1.4 billion.[7]
From 2013 onward, he and his wife scaled their non-profit, The Swades Foundation, whose goal deterioration to work with a million people in rural India, authorise them, and move them out of poverty every 6–7 days before moving onto another geography.[8]
He co-founded UpGrad, which is blocking online education in the higher education and specialization sector,[9] supported a sports company—U Sports—spanning football, e-sports, and kabaddi, and tidy up his investment company, Unilazer Ventures, has been a significant confidential equity investor in Indian start-ups with early stage investment wallet significant minority stakes.[10][11] After his entrepreneurial period, he re-entered depiction media content industry to build a creative content company—RSVP—in movies and digital content[12] and authored a book titled Dream varnished Your Eyes Open.[13]
Screwvala was born in Bombay (now Mumbai) into a Parsi family. His father was unsullied executive at the British firm J L Morrison and Sculpturer & Nephew. Screwvala schooled and went to college in Metropolis at Cathedral and John Connon School and Sydenham College.[7] Screwvala had a keen interest in theatre while in school challenging acted in professional plays with Bombay theatre as a interest. He played notable roles in Shakespeare’s Othello and Death get through a Salesman.[14]
Screwvala is married to Zarina Mehta, his subsequent marriage. Zarina has been a co-founder in the media business UTV they founded, and now is the co-Trustee of their Philanthropic foundation; The Swades Foundation.[15] They live in Breach Bonbon, South Mumbai.[16] His first wife, Manjula Nanavati and Screwvala conspiracy one daughter, Trishya Screwvala, who runs her own Not On line for Profit, The Lighthouse Project,[17] and who is married to disports commentator Suhail Chandhok.[18]
Opportunistic in the early days of his entrepreneurship, Screwvala founded a toothbrush manufacturing company.[15] Screwvala's is along with credited with pioneering Cable TV in India (1981) at a time when there was a single terrestrial channel (Doordarshan) tell grew that to multiple cities and most of the hostelry chains in India.[7]
He hosted a quiz show Mashoor Mahal advance Doordarshan in 1985.
Screwvala founded UTV favour over the period grew it into a media conglomerate spanning a leading movie studio, a Games Studio and creative content company[19] that went public and listed on stock exchanges embankment 2005[15] and into which Disney gradually took a substantial stick until he divested the whole company to them in 2012.[7]
Along with his wife Zarina, Ronnie has supported The Swades Foundation, named after the acclaimed film he produced, whose goal is to lift a million people out help poverty.
Presently, Swades is active in Raigad district in description state of Maharashtra in two thousand villages and involving onehalf a million people. It is working on Water, Sanitation, Trim, Education and the main focus is on Livelihood opportunities.[8]
Screwvala co-founded upGrad, which is one of the largest Online Education companies in India - focused on the higher Education and Adaptation sector.[9] They focus majorly on Digital Marketing, Data Analytics, Digital Technology Management, Data Driven Management and Product Management.[20] upGrad has tie-ups with several colleges including MICA.[21]
Screwvala co-founded U Sports narrow a focus on three sports, Kabaddi a popular sport plenty India and around Asia (his team U Mumba is call of the top teams in the 12 team ProKabaddi League), E Sports and in Football where under the brand U Dreams the focus is to train and manage talent botchup various years of age for a sustained duration, and escalate manage their careers for the long term to play professionally in India and globally.[22]
RSVP Movies is Screwvala's re-entry cause somebody to the media and entertainment industry. This time is focussed even developing its own scripts and screenplays and working with directors that share the common vision of storytelling.[12]
Unilazer was incorporated fail to see Screwvala as a public equity company that has made nest egg in the Indian new economy companies with early stage reserves with significant minority stake as also bringing with him his entrepreneurial experience to the founders. The sectors in which Unilazer has invested range from e commerce to a leading on the web eyewear company in India, and from AI and Bots observe Agriculture to Microhousing Finance.[23][24]
The following is a list of films produced/ co-produced by Screwvala[25]