Ronnie Screwvala

Co-Founder

Maharashtra, India36 yrs 3 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Founded India's largest online higher education platform.
Empowered over a million people through social initiatives.
Established a successful media conglomerate with multiple awards.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned entrepreneur and investor in EdTech, Non-Profit, and Media sectors.

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Skills

Core Skills

EntrepreneurshipBusiness DevelopmentSocial EntrepreneurshipLeadership DevelopmentVenture CapitalInvestment StrategyMedia ManagementFilm Production

Other Skills

AdvertisingAnalyticsBrand ManagementBroadcastBroadcast ManagementBusinessBusiness StrategyCommunity DevelopmentCommunity EngagementCompetitive AnalysisContent CreationData ScienceDigital MediaEducationEntrepreneurial Guidance

Experience

Upgrad.com

Chairperson & Co-Founder

Mar 2015 – Present · 11 yrs · Mumbai Area, India

upGrad was founded in early 2015 by me, Mayank Kumar, Phalgun Kompalli and Ravijot Chugh, with the aim of providing formal education online. In a short span of 4 years, upGrad on-boarded over 18K paid learners and impacted more than 363K individuals globally, making it India’s largest online higher education company, basis gross revenue generated from the Indian market.
upGrad provides programs in the areas of Data Science, Technology and Management to college students, working professionals and enterprises. These programs are designed and delivered in collaboration with top-notch universities like IIT Madras, IIIT-B, BITS Pilani, MICA, Cambridge Judge Business School Executive Education and others. To further enhance the learning experience, a comprehensive ecosystem has been built which includes one-on-one mentoring, peer-to-peer learning, industry networking and most importantly an expert career guidance, in order to provide learners a holistic support to elevate their careers to the next level.
The company has been awarded the ‘Best Tech for Education’ by IAMAI in 2019. The company received the ‘Best Education Brands’ award by Economic Times and has made it to LinkedIn’s ‘Top 25 Startups’ two years in a row in 2018 and 2019.

EntrepreneurshipBusiness DevelopmentStrategic PlanningLeadershipOnline Marketing

Unilazer ventures

Founder

Jan 2012 – Present · 14 yrs 2 mos · Mumbai Area, India

It’s the brand and arm that Screwvala is active as a VC/PE Investor and has made
investments in the Indian new economy companies and start ups, with early stage investments with
significant minority stake as also bringing with him his entrepreneurial experience to the founders.
The sectors in which Unilazer has invested range from e commerce to the leading online eyewear
company in India, and from AI and Bots to Agriculture to Microhousing Finance.

Venture CapitalInvestment StrategyMarket Research

Swades foundation

Founder

Jan 2004 – Present · 22 yrs 2 mos · Mumbai Area, India

Along with his wife Zarina, who is full time engaged with the Foundation
(Screwvala spends a quarter of his time on it as well), the Swades Foundation is committed to
empower and lift out of poverty a million people. Presently Swades is active in the state of
Maharashtra in a 3000 sq kms concentric geography in Raigad (4 hour drive from Mumbai) - in 2000
villages and half a million people - working on Water, Sanitation, Health, Education and the main
focus is on Livelihood opportunities.

Rural DevelopmentSocial EntrepreneurshipLeadership DevelopmentCommunity Engagement

Utv

Founder

Jan 1990 – Jan 2014 · 24 yrs · Mumbai Area, India

Screwvala founded UTV in the early days when Media and Entertainment was
not a sector or industry and over the period grew it into a media conglomerate spanning a leading
movie studio that created over 70 movie titles, won 350 Awards and another 20 National Awards - a
Broadcast network of 8 channels - a Games studio and a creative content company that got Listed in 2005 and into which Disney gradually took a substantial stake until he divested the whole company to them in 2012.

MediaBroadcastFilm ProductionContent CreationMedia Management