Dilip Shanghvi
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Dilip Shanghvi Dilip Shanghvi is the founder and managing director of Sun Pharmaceutical Industries, India's largest and the world's fifth-largest generic pharmaceutical company. He started the company in 1983 with just five products and two employees, building it into a global pharma powerhouse.
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Dilip Shanghvi is an Indian billionaire businessman. Shanghvi is the founder of Sun Pharmaceuticals, a pharmaceutical company. The Government of India awarded him the civilian honor of the Padma Shri in 2016. India Today magazine ranked him 8th in India's most powerful people of 2017 list. According to Forbes, as of May 2025, Shanghvi is the fifth richest person in India with an estimated net worth of US$28.9 billion.
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