Samir Mehta
$7.55B
$184.8M (2.5%)
as of 12/03/24
About Samir Mehta
Samir Mehta gets the bulk of his wealth from Torrent Pharmaceuticals, flagship of his family's Ahmedabad-based Torrent Group.
The 65-year-old company was founded by his late father Uttambhai Nathalal Mehta, who was a salesman for Swiss pharma giant Sandoz.
He also has a stake in Torrent Power, which provides electricity in his home state of Gujarat and two other states.
While Samir Mehta runs the pharma unit, his older sibling Sudhir's son,Jinal, oversees the power firm.
In 2022 Torrent Group forayed into the diagnostics business by setting up Torrent Diagnostics.
Personal stats
Citizenship
IndiaSource of wealth
Pharmaceuticals, powerResidence
Ahmedabad, IndiaMarital status
MarriedBirth date
09/18/63 (age 61)Number of children
2Self-made
inherited and growingSamir Mehta’s fortune is worth
126K
troy ounces of gold
116K
median U.S. household
75K
median U.S. income
0.151%
U.S. credit card volume
0.03%
GDP of the United States
0.022%
United States debt
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Did you know?
To mark the birth centenary of their late father, he and his billionaire brother Sudhir committed over $600 million to the family's UNM Foundation in March 2024.
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BSE INDIA | 500420-IN
Torrent PharmaceuticalsBSE INDIA | 532779-IN
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