Ashish Thakkar
| Ashish J. Thakkar | |
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| Born |
5 August 1981 Leicester, United Kingdom |
| Residence | Dubai, United Arab Emirates |
| Nationality | BritishUgandan |
| Occupation | Founder, Mara Group |
| Years active | 1996 - present |
| Organization | Mara Foundation |
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| Parent(s) | Jagdish Thakkar |
| Awards | Base Leadership Award at the MTV Africa Music Awards 2014 |
| Website | https://mara.com/leadership/ashish-j-thakkar/ |
Ashish J. Thakkar (Arabic: أشيش تاكر) is a Fourth Generation Indian, and an entrepreneur. He is the founder of Mara Group and Mara Foundation, and he is a co-founder of Atlas Mara. Thakkar was born in the United Kingdom, but he moved to East Africa as a teenager before founding Mara Group, a Pan-African conglomerate, at the age of 15.Mara Group's operations and investments span 22 African countries. He is the author of The Lion Awakes: Adventures in Africa's Economic Miracle.
Thakkar is a member of the World Economic Forum's Young Global Leaders,and was featured on Fortune Magazine's list of the top "40 Under 40" in 2013. He was awarded the Base Leadership Award at the 2014 MTV Africa Music Awards event.
Thakkar was married to Meera Menak a travel and food writer and in summer of 2014 she filed a divorce case against him. Thakkar claimed his assets were valued at £445,432 while Manek claimed Thakkar was being dishonest and that documents showed a Panamanian foundation was formerly at the helm of the Mara Group structure, a structure of which he was the primary beneficiary. She was a secondary beneficiary, it was claimed. The foundation was dissolved shortly after she issued divorce proceedings in summer 2014, according to her argument in court.
Thakkar’s family emigrated from the Indian state of Gujarat to Africa in the 1890s. Thakkar, however, was born in Leicester in 1981, after his parents had moved to the United Kingdom in 1972 when Idi Amin enforced the expulsion of Asians from Uganda. Thakkar and his family returned to Africa to live in Rwanda before they were again forced to leave due to the Rwandan Genocide in 1994. The Thakkar family then fled to Burundi before settling in Uganda as refugees. At 15 years old, Thakkar dropped out of school to start his own business with a $5,000 loan.
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