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Indian businessman Born: September 2, 1953 (age 69 years), Chavara, India Spouse: Geetha Ravi Pillai Children: Arathi Ravi Pillai, Ganesh Ravi Pillai Education: Cochin University Ravi Pillai is married to Geetha, and they live in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. They have two children, a son Ganesh Ravi Pillai, and a daughter Dr. Arathi Ravi Pillai. He paid for his daughter Arathi’s wedding with Dr. Adithya Vishnu at Kollam in November 2015, at a total expense of ₹55 crores ($7.5 million). The wedding was organized by the production designer who worked on the film, Baahubali: The Beginning., and is considered the most expensive wedding in Kerala to date. His son Ganesh Pillai married Anjana Suresh, an engineer, in September 2021. B. Ravi Pillai is a Dubai-based Indian billionaire businessman. He is the founder and chairman of the RP Group.
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Indian-born farmer’s son, Ravi Pillai migrated to Saudi Arabia after his small construction business in his native Kerala state went bust. With help from a well-connected local partner, he started over in 1978 and built his RP Group into a $7.8 billion (revenue) construction heavyweight. The construction magnate has used his Gulf riches to invest back home, picking up stakes in banks, hotels and real estate. Source of Wealth construction, Self Made Residence Dubai, United Arab Emirates Citizenship India Marital Status Married Children 2 RP Group is among the biggest employers of Indians in the Middle East. Pillai has several homes around the world, including an apartment in Trump Tower in Pune city. In Their Own Words: My real home is the sky because I’m always travelling. Ravi Pillai is the Chairman and MD of the RP Group of Companies. He is popularly known as the “Ambani of the Gulf”. Mr Ravi Pillai is the founder MD of the construction giant of the gulf, Naseer S Al Hajri Corporation, based at Bahrain. With more than 60,000 people working for him, Mr Pillai has the biggest Indian workforce in Saudi. He has stakes in hotel chains and the petrochemical business, Mr Pillai’s fortune amounts to $2.4 billion, making him the 32nd richest Indian. Ravi Pillai was born on 2nd September, 1953, in Chavara village of Kerela in a family of farmers. He did his Bachelors from a local college. Pillai has a post-graduate degree in Business Administration from Cochin University. Ravi Pillai started his own chit fund company by borrowing Rs 1,00,000 from a local money lender, while he was a student in the Cochin University. He saved and re-invested the money that he earned. Pillai started his own construction company. He hit big times when he bagged a contract from Vellore Hindustan Newsprint Factory. He had to shut down his unit due to labour problems. Pillai moved to Saudi Arabia and started a construction business and a trading company simultaneously. He soon established his own construction company, Naseer S Al Hajri Company (NSH). The construction business flourished manifold as NSH started bagging heavy contracts such as hanger construction for a French aircraft company. Another major assignment was building the Royal Terminal and that contract was worth $50 Million. The NSH saw a new high in the 80s, when it ventured into oil refineries and the petroleum sector. A strategist, Pillai recruited a Korean in his company who helped him bag several oil refinery contracts. Mr Pillai has invested in hospitals, malls and hotel chains. He bought the shares of the Leela Resorts in Kerela. Ravi Pillai is married and has two children. Of a religious bend of mind, he visits the Tirupati temple of Andhra Pradesh every year. Ravi Pillai has been awarded the Padam Shri by the Government of India in 2010 and the Pravasi Bhartiya Samman in 2008. He is a recipient of a doctoral degree from by the Excelsior College, New York. Name B. Pillai Spouse Geetha Ravi Pillai B. Ravi Pillai smiling while wearing a black coat, white long sleeves, and red necktie Born 2 September 1953 (age 67) (1953-09-02) Chavara, Kollam, Kerala, India Children Arathi Ravi Pillai, Ganesh Ravi Pillai B. Ravi Pillai is an Indian billionaire businessman. He is the founder and managing director of RP Group of Companies. Ravi Pillai was born on 2 September 1953 at Chavara, a coastal town in Kollam, in the South Indian state of Kerala in a family of farmers. After graduating from Baby John Memorial Government College, Chavara he continued his studies in Business Administration at Cochin University. During his time at university, he launched his first business, a chit fund in Kollam on reportedly borrowed money. Later, he started an engineering contract business and worked for some of the major industrial houses in Kerala such as Fertilisers and Chemicals Travancore Limited, Hindustan Newsprint Limited, and Cochin Refineries. However, a labour strike forced him to close down his business, after which he went to Saudi Arabia in 1978 where he started a small trading business. Two years later, he moved into construction, and established Nasser Al Hajri Corporation with 150 employees, which has over the years grown to become the flagship company of his business group, RP Group, which is known to employ over 70,000 employees across its businesses. The shopping mall in South Kerala, RP Mall at Kollam city is owned by Pillai. Pillai has expanded his business to other countries including United Arab Emirates, Qatar, and Bahrain, and has interests in construction, hospitality, steel, cement, and oil and gas industries. RP Group is known to hold stakes in hotels such as Leela Kovalam, Hotel Raviz, Kollam, and WelcomHotel Raviz Kadavu, Kozhikode in his home state of Kerala. He is involved in health care through Upasana Hospital and Research Centre, a 300-bed multispecialty hospital in Kollam., Pillai received an honorary doctorate from the Excelsior College, New York, and was awarded the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman by the Government of India in 2008. Three years later, in 2010, the Government of India included him in the Republic Day honours list for the civilian honour of Padma Shri. In 2014, Forbes listed him in the World’s Billionaires at 988 in the world and 30 in India.
