Industry Titans Cyrus Poonawalla Chairman and Managing Director, Poonawalla Group Cyrus Poonawalla founded the Serum Institute of India in 1966 and built it into the world’s largest vaccine maker by number of doses produced and sold globally (more than 1.3 billion doses). Under the leadership of his son Adar Poonawalla, the global biotech firm invested $800m to build a new factory to make Covid-19 vaccines. Pune-based Poonawalla Group has business interests in pharmaceuticals and biotechnology, finance, renewable energy, hospitality, real estate, and aviation. Son of a horse breeder, Poonawalla’s family has been breeding and racing thorough-breds in India since 1946 and is the leading stud farm in India. With a fleet of three aircraft, the group’s aviation unit, Poonawalla Aviation, is a non-scheduled operator that has been providing chartered flight services since 2005. His assets include a majority stake in listed financial services firm Poonawalla Fincorp, which provides loans to consumers and small businesses, and a stake in The Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Pune. You might also like Sunil John Dr. Thumbay Moideen Vidya Chhabria Mohan Valrani K. Rajaram Dr. Adnan Chilwan Sanjiv Kakkar Ram Kumar Thota Raghu Malhotra Sunil Kaushal Atif Rahman Amit Jain Rishi Kapoor Vasu Shroff Anil Pillai Bal Krishen Rohit and Sharad Bachani Raju Ramesh and Sunil Paul Ayesha Depala John Paul Joy Alukkas Geet Bhalla and Digvijay Pratap Snehal and Sunita Hadani Nisha Jagtiani Kunal Kapoor Dino Varkey Ashish Panjabi Joy Alukkas Yogesh Mehta Yusuff Ali M.A. Ravi Pillai Micky Jagtiani Sunny Varkey Sunil Vaswani Shamsheer Vayalil Firoz Merchant Rajen Kilachand Azad Moopen Tony Jashanmal Paras Shahdadpuri Dr. Zulekha Daud Adeeb Ahamed Dhananjay Datar Rizwan Sajan PNC Menon Sima Ved Shaji Ul Mulk Ramesh Prabhakar L.T. Pagarani Ram Buxani Surender Kandhari Sohan Roy Shyam Bhatia