Yusuf Hamied
Mumbai, India
Doctorate, University of Cambridge
India
pharmaceuticals
$1,300,000,000
1717
#1717 Billionaires 2019
#28 India's Richest 2015
Yusuf Hamied is the non-executive chairman of $2.1 billion (revenue) generics maker Cipla.Cipla was founded in 1935 by his father Khwaja Abdul Hamied, a disciple of Mahatma Gandhi.After the patriarch passed away in 1972, Cambridge-educated Hamied and his brother Mustafa inherited the business.Hamied took on big pharmaceutical companies, offering low-cost generic drugs for diseases such as AIDS, earning the label of drug pirate.
His niece Samina Vaziralli is now Cipla's executive vice chairman.Renowned music conductor Zubin Mehta is Hamied's childhood pal.
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