Vinod Goenka
| Vinod Goenka | |
|---|---|
| Born | 2nd July 1959 (age 57) Kolkata |
| Residence | Mumbai |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Occupation | Chairman and Managing Director, DB Group |
| Net worth | US$1.18 billion |
| Spouse(s) | Aseela Lookmanji |
| Children | 2 |
| Website | Official Website |
Vinod Goenka is an Indian billionaire real-estate developer, Chairman and Managing Director of DB Realty Ltd, one of the largest real estate development companies in India, based out of Mumbai. Having started his career at the age of 23, Vinod Goenka has over 35 years of expertise as a real estate developer, hotelier and industrialist, with over 20 million sq. feet of development to his credit.
His net worth is estimated at US$1.18 billion by Forbes magazine as of 2010. He started off by joining his father’s interior design and furniture company in Mumbai and helped expand it to form the Dynamix Group. Later, he partnered with the Balwa family to form DB Realty Ltd and build Le Royal Meridien Hotel Mumbai, near Mumbai’s International Airport.
Mr. Vinod Goenka resides in Mumbai, he is married to Aseela Lookmanji and has two children, a son and a daughter. He was an active member of the Young Presidents' Organization (YPO), graduating to become a member of the World Presidents Organisation (WPO) in 2009.
Born in 1959 in Calcutta (now Kolkata), he moved to Bombay at the age of 6 with his family beginning his education at Green Lawns High School. He then attended Jamnabai Naree School and Campion School in Fort later. He was national level athlete with a 100-meter sprint of 11.5 seconds, 200 meter sprint of 23.5 seconds and a long jump distance of 6.31 meters. Following a muscle injury, and unable to return to the track, Goenka began taking up other sports.
At the age of 23, Vinod Goenka started a tailoring shop with a group of his childhood friends in Juhu but soon moved on to looking after his father’s business of interior design and furniture as his father had then moved on to Real Estate and Construction. At the age of 23-24, Goenka’s father, Mr. K.M. Goenka bought Crystal Granite, a sick company on the verge of closing shop, and handed it over to his son to run and revive.
Goenka started his career at 23 years old by joining Conwood Constructions, the real estate business run by his father, expanding and transforming it into the Dynamix Group. The Dynamix Group has developed Gokuldham and Yashodham in Goregaon, Vasant Vihar in Thane, Mahavir Nagar in Kandivali and Shristi at Mira Road, in the Mumbai suburbs and 140- acre sea-side hill-station, Aldeia de Goa, at Bambolim Beach, Goa.
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