Given his track record in establishing strong businesses, one would think he comes from an illustrious family of seasoned entrepreneurs. His surname — a common Indian portmanteau that combines an ancestral profession with the word wallah, meaning vendor — hints at an industry that his family could have dabbled in. “I have spoken to my dad and grandfather [about this] and we guess at some stage, we used to sell screws,” he chuckles.
An outsider in the media industry with a lower-middle class background and no start-up experience, Ronnie Screwvala feels he had zero right to win. But the veteran entrepreneur’s track record tells a different story
Ask any fan of Bollywood movies and chances are, they would have heard of Ronnie Screwvala. One of India’s most prominent media entrepreneurs, the 65-year-old was an early pioneer in the country’s nascent cable TV industry. He subsequently built a series of businesses in television production, making movies and even toothbrushes, before moving into the education space recently.
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