This illustrious Indian-born real estate developer began working as an interior designer in Oman in the 1970s on projects such as the Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque and Al Bustan Palace Hotel. He later moved to Dubai and founded the Sobha Group of Companies, which has a footprint across India and the GCC.
Today, the billionaire property developer is the man behind the $4bn Sobha Hartland community project in Dubai’s Mohammed Bin Rashid City, and District One with Meydan Group.
As India and the rest of the world reels from the economic effects of the lockdown, a recently-published list of 500 High-Growth Companies Asia-Pacific by the Financial Times said around 140 Indian companies will “assist in the revival of the Indian economy” – one of which it named as Sobha.
Since its inception, Sobha has delivered real estate projects and contractual projects covering about 100 million sq ft of area. No wonder Menon is among the region’s wealthiest businessmen.
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