B Ravi Pillai is a Dubai-based Indian Billionaire Businessman from Kerala, India. He holds the position of the RP Group’s founder and chairman. In 2015 Arabian Business ranked him as the fourth most powerful Indian in the Middle East.
B. Ravi Pillai Profile
Real Name | Ravi Pillai |
Full Name | B Ravi Pillai |
Known as | “Ambani of the Gulf” |
Date of Birth | 2 September 1953 |
Age | 69 |
Birth Place | Chavara, State of Travancore–Cochin |
Residence | Kollam, Kerala |
Occupation | Founder, Chairman, RP Group |
Educational Qualification | Business Administration |
College | Baby John Memorial Government College Cochin University |
Parents | Mr. Pillai & Mrs. Pillai |
Marital Status | Married |
Spouse | Geetha Pillai |
Children | Ganesh Ravi Pillai & Dr. Arathi Ravi Pillai |
Daughter in Law | Anjana Suresh |
Sister(s) | Mohamallika Pillai (Mallika Sukumaran) |
Net Worth (approx.) | US$2.5 billion |
Zodiac sign | Virgo |
Religion | Hindu |
Nationality | Indian |
Gmail | info@rpgroup.org (Copmany Mail) |
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B Ravi Pillai Biography, Family, and more
B Ravi Pillai was born on 2nd September 1953 in Chavara, Kollam, Kerala, India. Now he is 69 years old and belongs to the Hindu religion. His zodiac sign is Virgo.
He got married to Geetha Ravi Pillai and the couple has two children named Ganesh Ravi Pillai and Arathi Ravi Pillai. He currently lives in Dubai, which is located in the United Arab Emirates.
Ganesh is hitched to Anjana Suresh and she worked in an IT firm in Bangalore. Arathi got married to Adhithya Vishnu and both of them are doctors.
Education and Qualification
B Ravi Pillai completed his education at Cochin University of Science and Technology.
Career Path
B Ravi Pillai started his career by launching a business, a chit fund in Kollam. Later Ravi Pillai started an engineering contract business and worked in industrial firms in Kerala like Fertilisers and Chemicals Travancore Limited, Cochin Refineries, and Hindustan Newsprint Limited.
In 1978 he went to Saudi Arabia a started a trading business there. In 1980 he moved into the construction sector and established Nasser S Al Hajri Corporation with fifty employees.
Till now RP Group gave jobs to more than 70,000 people across the world. B Ravi owned a shopping mall named RP Mall at Kollam.
B Ravi established business centers in the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Qatar, including the fields like hospitality, construction, cement, gas, steel, cement, and resorts.
B Ravi Pillai owns hotels and resorts such as Hotel Raviz, Kollam, Raviz Kadavu, Kozhikode, and Leela Kovalam and runs a multispeciality hospital at Kollam named ‘Upasana Hospital and Research Centre.
Awards and Honours
B Ravi Pillai achieved an honorary doctorate from ‘Excelsior College, New York. In 2008 B Ravi received the ‘Pravasi Bharatiya Samman’ from the Indian Government.
In 2010 he won the ‘Padma Shri Award from the Government of India.
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