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Bhadresh Shah
Overview
- Source of Wealth
- Engineering
- Industry
- Manufacturing
- Residence
- Ahmedabad
- Education
- Indian Institute of Technology (Bachelor of Science in Engineering)
- Marital Status
- Married
- Children
- 2
Assets
- AIA Engineering54,588,000 shares @ --532683-IN
Biography
Bhadresh Shah founded and runs AIA Engineering, a niche metallurgical company in Ahmedabad city.
Shah started a small foundry in 1978 and parlayed it into a $540 million (revenue) company.
AIA is the world's second largest manufacturer of high chromium grinding parts (by sales) for the cement, mining and power industries.
Shah is a metallurgy engineer from the premier Indian Institute of Technology (Kanpur).
Shah also sits on the Board of Zydus Lifesciences, controlled by pharma billionaire Pankaj Patel.
About
Shah hails from a family of doctors but chose to study engineering rather than medicine.
Shah is a wine connoisseur.