Stephen Bradley Saad (born June 1964) is a South African billionaire businessman, who is the founder and chief executive of Aspen Pharmacare (JSE: APN), the largest producer of generic medicines in Africa.
Stephen Bradley Saad was born in June 1964 to Lebanese parents,[1] and raised in Durban, South Africa.
[2][4][5] He started his career at Quickmed, a prescription drug distribution company in black townships during apartheid.
[6] In 1997, together with Gus Attridge, he co-founded Aspen Pharmacare, a public company traded on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange.
[4] In 2014, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University for the positive role of Aspen in the city of Port Elizabeth [11] He resides in Durban and spends time at his private reserve in the Sabi Sand Game Reserve near the Kruger National Park.