Swades foundation ronnie screwvala biography

Indian entrepreneur and film producer (born 1956)

Rohinton Soli Screwvala (born 8 September 1956), known professionally as Ronnie Screwvala, is an Indian entrepreneur, investor and film producer.^[2][3]

He has been named on Esquire's List of the 75 Most Influential People of the 21st Century^[4] in 2008 and ranked 78 among the 100 most influential people in the world on the Time 100 (compiled by Time Magazine, 2009).^[5] He was also listed amongst 25 Asia's Most Powerful people by Fortune Magazine.^[6]

Based in Mumbai, India, Ronnie pioneered cable television, built a media and entertainment conglomerate (UTV Software Communications) that partnered with News Corp, 20th Century Fox, The Walt Disney Company, and Bloomberg, and later in 2012, he divested the company to Disney for an enterprise value of US$1.4 billion.^[7]

From 2013 onward, he and his wife scaled their non-profit, The Swades Foundation, w