Property developer PNC Menon hails from Kerala, southern India. He has built up his reputation over decades, since working as an interior designer in Oman in the 1970s on projects such as the Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque. He then moved to Dubai and founded Sobha Group, which is building two of Menon’s biggest projects yet, the $8.5bn Mohammed Bin Rashid District One development, and the $4bn Sobha Hartland scheme.
Today his son Ravi primarily runs the company while Menon focuses on expanding his group’s Middle Eastern operations, which span the UAE, Qatar, Oman and other Gulf countries. For example, Sobha recently signed a joint venture with the government of Umm Al Quwain to develop a $6.8bn tourism scheme in the UAE’s less well-known emirate.
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