Ronnie Screwvala
Co-Founder & Chairperson · upGrad
📍 Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Ronnie Screwvala co-founded upGrad to build career-focused online higher education for working professionals.
Bachelor's degree in Economics from Sydenham College of Commerce and Economics.
Built businesses in cable television, media and entertainment and became strongly associated with UTV.
The founders saw growing demand for flexible higher education that working professionals could pursue without leaving their jobs.
Building trust in online degrees, proving career outcomes, creating credible university partnerships and scaling learning quality.
Expansion from early professional courses into broader university-linked programs and global markets became a major growth stage.
Co-founded upGrad and helped build it into a large higher-education and workforce-development platform.
Continue expanding lifelong learning, university partnerships, career services, enterprise programs and international reach.
Understand the learner deeply and build a brand around long-term outcomes rather than short-term acquisition alone.