Bharat Gaurav Mr Ankur Rana - The troubleshooter of business - USA
Mr Rana gradually fused his entrepreneurship and management experience with operational expertise, utilizing his abilities to optimize growth for several companies he got involved. He is known as an expert consultant, business strategist and trouble-shooter for a variety of business and management-related challenges.
Started their early professional life in the software industry and migrated with his big dreams to America in 1998. The initial years after moving to the land of opportunities was a great learning time of his career. After spending a long tenure in Software sales in 2004 started a Software development company “Knowledge Momentum”. With the initial quick success, the business expanded in North America, Latin America and Asia, gaining exposure to the international market and clientele.
In 2008 US Small Business Administration has awarded him with the “Emerging Leader” award. In 2013, 2014 and 2015 USPAAC (US Pan Asian American Chamber of Commerce) has awarded his businesses in Fast 100 growing businesses in the USA. In 2013 he went to Kellogg’s School of Business for executive advance management and in 2014 he attended Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth for “Building a high performing Minority business” program.
Community Services :
Mr Rana firmly believes that every individual has a social responsibility towards society. Especially when he looks back in India where basic education is still not available to most of the rural and tribal areas. Mr Rana has collaborated with SEWA International for their “Sponsor a child” program and currently sponsoring 125 tribal girls in the northeast state of Assam for their entire lodging, meals, education etc. to take this initiative forward Mr Rana has a goal of achieving sponsorship of 1000 tribal and rural girls education up to high school by the end of 2017.
As a big proponent of education, Mr Rana has framed another program along with SEWA international to educate and train rural youth in India on computer literacy and awareness through the “Computer Haat” program. Under the “Computer Haat” program where labs have been built and operate in remote and rural areas of Uttrakhand. These labs have an objective to build and train technical competency among rural unemployed youth.
Bharat Gaurav Atul Pathak - United Kingdom
After 16 years of opening his first restaurant in 2003, he employs 3,000 staff who between them serve well over 28 million customers this year. He arrived in Britain as a graduate in the mid-1980s and settled with his wife in west London. He has two grown-up children.
Atul was awarded the OBE for Service to Entrepreneurship in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List of 2015 and among other awards for his achievements received the Leader of the Decade Creating a Better World for All from The Women Economic Forum in 2017.
Emphasizing the Importance of his Employees
Atul places a strong emphasis on each member of staff’s development and training as he believes they are key to the success of the business. As a McDonald’s franchisee, he is committed to recognizing great customer service and loyalty but adds to this by always trying to promote from within the company and to emphasize that everyone in each of the teams understands and values the importance of honesty, integrity, and hard work.
It is not always what qualifications they have, but their attitude towards working which matters as Appt Corp helps to advance their careers.
For example, nearly 200 members of Atul’s staff have successfully completed his Apprenticeship Scheme, securing City & guild qualifications; and over 400, who were not fortunate enough to recognize the importance of education during their school years have taken GCSE Maths and English exams.
Charitable Work
Atul is also actively involved in the communities where his restaurants operate and he looks to lend his support whenever and wherever he can, ranging from supporting many youth football teams to carrying out regular litter clean-up campaigns.
Further, in the last 10 years, Atul and Appt Corporation have raised and donated more than £1 Million for Ronald McDonald House Charities, providing a home from home for parents of hospitalized children, by donating both a percentage of the annual sales and setting up other fund-raising activities.
Bharat Gaurav Mr Jitendra Matlani - UAE
A businessman by birth successful by passion and writer by choice. Living my legacy & living life in every moment.
Born with a golden spoon, Dr. Jitendra Matlani has his style and standard of living, a Very confident personality, and carries an excellent attitude.
A visionary entrepreneur, endowed with unfailing business acumen, Jitendra Matlani is the Chairman of JM Global Group of Companies, a diversified global business entity that has proven its competencies in consumer and has met with much success Award-winning prestigious organization carries on with multiple trades in India, UAE and African sectors with Imports & Exports, FMCG, Health & Fitness, Real Estate, Investments, Garments, Travelling goods, Furniture and Metals & Commodities and Events & Promotions.
Enthusiastic and humble, a business leader is committed to the task of building a strong organization, guided by steadfast ethical values. A resident of Dubai for over 20 years, Dr. Jitendra Matlani is a father figure to many young entrepreneurs and is one of the most prominent entrepreneurs in the UAE. Truly multi-faceted, he is a community leader, spokesperson of the non-resident Indians, writer, cultural ambassador, and social organizer.
· Leading a team of several hundred employees at present. Dr. Jitendra Matlani started managing his Father’s industry when he was just 16 years old. Took it to a different level of success and fame.
· On his own, Dr. Jitendra Matlani started a Logistics company in 1991.
· Entered the Real Estate business in 1993 and soon became a king of real estate and a well-known investor.
· 1994 started a finance company on a very big level.
· In 1996 entered the construction and built up an excellent commercial complex.
· In 1997 he moved ahead with international opportunity by opening up a Garments exports house in Dubai.
· With more opportunities and multiple businesses, he moved to Dubai in 2000
· Now he is a successful businessman in the gulf with connections all over the world
· Very influential and powerful, successful business with experience of more than 25 years of International Trade. His award-winning spirit never ends.
· He won the Best buyers award 2015 in Dubai.
· Dr. Jitendra Matlani along with his business chairs many organizations
· Global Ambassador of Peace
· Ex-Chairman & Founder FOMP
· Overseas Indian Department.
· Government of Madhya Pradesh.
· Brand Ambassador of Madhya Pradesh
· President Dubai
· International Human Rights Organisation
· President Dubai
· World Book of Records London UK
Very famous personality, a true Visionary leader, and very well connected all over the world. He has a long list of achievements in life as he has been awarded Multiple Awards and certificates all throughout his fantastic journey of life.
He got married to a very simple girl Meena Matlani with very high family values in 1990. His marriage was his turning point and his wife proved to be a lucky charm for him. He is blessed with three children Sacheen Matlani, Khushbu Matlani, and Prasan Matlani.
Mr. Matlani is a true Visionary leader with loyal followers and is much loved by all his friends for his loving and caring nature towards his friends and family.
He recently, during the Covid-19 crisis came forward for help and went out of his way to book a chattered flight in his name to airlift stranded Indians in UAE and repatriated almost 350 people from UAE to India. Along with that kept on serving the motherland by sending oxygen concentrators and many other essentials during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Bharat Gaurav Rizwan Sajan Dubai
A visionary in its true sense, Rizwan Sajan is a business leader who raised his business empire from a two-member husband-wife team way back in 1993 to a multi-billion-dollar sustainable diversified business conglomerate with 9 businesses spread across 50 locations in 10 countries employing more than 3,600 people.
Ranked 7th among the ‘Top 100 Indian leaders in the UAE’ List by Forbes Middle East, as well as all other media, Rizwan Sajan is one of the most prominent UAE businessmen, who is a strong voice of the private sector and an advocate of the UAE’s economy. He has been on the Forbes Middle East list for the sixth consecutive time. With multiple awards to the company’s credit, including the prestigious Dubai Quality Awards, and MRM Business Awards, the company has created a benchmark point of reference for success amid challenges for others to follow.
He has transformed a building materials trade — a very traditional business — into a popular household brand and has paved way for the strongest conglomerate brand in the GCC, reflecting his acumen in marketing and branding.
Danube Group owns a number of companies namely:
* Danube Building Materials — its flagship business with 25,000 types of building materials under one roof.
* Danube Home, its home-furnishing division.
* Danube Properties — its real estate development division.
* Milano, an Italian bath and bathroom solutions provider.
* Alucopanel an American aluminium composite panel division.
* Danube Hospitality Solutions, it's turnkey hotel solution provider division.
* American Aesthetic Medical Centre which is a holistic aesthetic laser clinic for skin and hair.
* Starz Media which is the Publishing division of the brand and carry’s the famous Filmfare brand in the Mena region.
* Danube Home and Danube Home Express are the franchise business models in West Africa and CIS countries. The Group’s annual turnover has been estimated to be over 1.5 Billion USD.
Over the course of the last 28 years, his company has grown from strength to strength amid multiple regional conflicts, wars, and economic and financial crises including the Gulf War, Global Financial Crisis of 10–2008, Arab Spring in 2012–2011 as well as global health crises including SARS, H1N1 Bird Flu and the latest COVID19- global pandemic, making it the most resilient business in the GCC region.
As a businessman, Sajan is known for picking up the best people, training them, empowering them, monitoring them and creating a fool-proof enabling system to help the business grow — to ensure success. Today, he remains a relaxed businessman while his people and processes deliver good results year after year, even in crises and pandemics — making it a good case study for business management students.
Despite running such a large group of businesses, Rizwan Sajan remains a family man, enjoying his life, and meeting with family friends — always wearing a smile. His mantra is to be happy and make others happy — his family, friends, colleagues, customers and other stakeholders.
Bharat Gaurav Subrato Saha — Engineer, Entrepreneur & Social Enthusiast Director of AquaChemie
Subrato, a chemical engineer from IIT Kharagpur, is currently a Dubai-based entrepreneur. He has built one of the largest chemical manufacturing and distribution companies in the Middle East, along with his business partner Anand Kumar.
Born in Kanpur, Subrato grew up in a defence environment in multiple cities in India. Father retired as an officer from the Indian Airforce, and Mother dedicated her life to raising the two boys.
Today he is blessed to have complete family support of a talented Wife Nivedita (a professional Artist) and a gifted daughter Muskaan (Pursuing Music, Literature & Psychology)
Other than a quality education in IIT, the biggest reward from the institute has been — knowing a bunch of highly talented and successful guys in their field, who are friends forever. They still share the same warmth & closeness, built over four years of hostel life.
After a long stint of 18 years in a senior position in several multinationals, he plunged into business with his GE colleague Anand. In late 2008, AquaChemie was born to serve the oil and gas sector of the region. The company has grown over 30% year on year and is considered one of the major corporates in the region, with around 200 professionals. There is hardly a state-owned or large corporate like Aramco, or Sabic. Adnoc, Qatar Petroleum, Shell,
OQ, Kuwait Petroleum etc., in the Middle East, which AquaChemie does not serve.
AquaChemie has currently taken on an ambitious project of creating a large petrochemical terminal in Jebel Ali Port, with an investment of around 45 M$. This would help create a petrochemical hub for the industry in the region and beyond.
AquaChemie managed to qualify the stringent lens & thorough due diligence process of a Japanese Multinational Kurita before they partnered AquaChemie for a Joint Venture in speciality Chemicals manufacturing and sales in the GCC region.
Through keen interest, involvement & investments in Real Estate & Technology Sector, Subrato could enrich his financial journey. Besides, he passionately participates in & guides several start-up ventures and wannabe entrepreneurs. Many of such Entrepreneurs are his juniors from the local PAN IIT community. His analytical skills and objective (often quantified) thinking have served him and his associates well. He selflessly believes in giving back to society and arduously supports individuals and social organizations, serving the weaker section of society.