Karan Paul
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| Born | 3 November 1969 |
| Residence | Kolkata, West Bengal – India |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Alma mater | Brown University |
| Occupation | Chairman of Apeejay Surrendra Group |
| Spouse(s) | Indrani Dasgupta |
| Parent(s) | Late Surrendra Paul and Shirin Paul |
| Family | Priti Paul, Priya Paul (sisters) Late Anand Paul (brother) |
Karan Paul is the Chairman of the Apeejay Surrendra Group, one of India’s oldest and largest privately owned family businesses. Established in Jalandhar in 1910, the Apeejay Surrendra Group has more than 43,000 employees across rapidly expanding businesses of Tea, Hospitality, Shipping, Retail, Real Estate, and has diversified into new business initiative, Marine Cluster, Logistics and Knowledge Parks.
Born on November 3, 1969, Karan Paul is the grandson of Shri Pyare Lal, founder of Apeejay Surrendra Group, and son of the late Chairman of the Group, Mr Surrendra Paul. He was born and brought up in Kolkata and New Delhi. He studied at La Martiniere for Boys, Kolkata and Modern High School, New Delhi. He went to Brown University, United States, for his undergraduate studies in philosophy and literature and majored in Politics.
Karan Paul joined the Apeejay Surrendra Group in 1992. His first businesses as an entrepreneur were Apeejay Finance, a finance company and Apeejay Securities, a stock-broking company, which he ran for about 10 years and sold them off in 2006-07. After working at various levels in the Apeejay Surrendra Group for 12 years, Karan became the Chairman of the Group in 2004.
Karan oversees Group’s financial planning, business strategy, diversification into new businesses ventures and operations as well as management of Apeejay Tea, Apeejay Shipping and Apeejay Schools. Under his leadership, Apeejay Surrendra Group has made very large business investments and expanded across various business verticals, especially its core businesses of shipping and hotels. Group has forward integrated the Tea Plantation business by acquiring an FMCG brand Typhoo which retails in nearly 50 countries globally. The Group also diversified into new business ventures of Marine Cluster and Logistics Parks which has backward and forward integrated the Group’s Shipping business. The Real Estate division has incremented Land Banks and consolidated as well as grown Real Estate commercial developments across India. Karan is director and member of Apeejay Surrendra Park Hotels Limited, K.P.H.Dream Cricket Private Limited and Director of Apeejay Tea Limited, Apeejay Shipping Limited, Apeejay Infralogistics Private Limited, Bengal Shipyard Limited amongst others.
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