Karan Paul

Karan Paul
Born (1969-11-03) 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.

Early life

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.[1]

Career

Karan Paul joined the Apeejay Surrendra Group in 1992.[2] 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.[3][4][5][6] After working at various levels in the Apeejay Surrendra Group for 12 years, Karan became the Chairman of the Group in 2004.[7][8]

Karan oversees Group’s financial planning, business strategy, diversification into new businesses ventures and operations[9] 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.[10] Group has forward integrated the Tea Plantation business by acquiring an FMCG brand Typhoo which retails in nearly 50 countries globally.[11] 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.[12][13] The Real Estate division has incremented Land Banks and consolidated as well as grown Real Estate commercial developments across India.[14] 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.[9]

Board Memberships

Karan has been on the Executive Committees of various Chambers of Commerce like CII, FICCI, ICC, Bharat Chamber of Commerce, Bengal Chamber of Commerce; he is actively involved with reputed trade organizations and professional forums like YPO, YLF, INSA, ITA, etc. as well as West Bengal industry forums.[15]

Awards

In 2006 Karan Paul was awarded one of Italy's highest honour 'Order of the Star of Italian Solidarity' Hon.Gianni Vernetti, Minister of State of the Ministry of External Affairs, presented the decorations of the 'Order of the Star of Italian Solidarity' in New Delhi. Italy confers this award annually on Italian and Foreign nationals residing outside the country who have significantly contributed to the stature of Italy. It could either be by way of promoting Italian culture and language or by any other voluntary activity or humanitarian service.[16] In 2012, International Confederation of NGO s felicitated Karan with its coveted ‘Karmaveer Puraskaar, 2012 Corporate Citizen for Holistic CSR Initiatives’ award.[17] The award was given to him for his work in the field of social service and for interpreting his responsibilities as an individual and as the leader of the Apeejay Surrendra Group adjudicated by processes created by the international HR audit firm Mercer and Grant Thornton. Some of the initiatives created by him:-

Personal

Karan is a sports enthusiast[56] and loves the sport of cricket. He is the co-owner of the Kings XI Punjab (KXIP) team of the Indian Premier League (IPL)[57] along with Preity Zinta, Ness Wadia and Mohit Burman. KXIP is a franchise cricket team with its headquarters in Mohali, Punjab. Karan has been reading serious literature from a very young age and his first love and abiding interest remains Philosophy and literature.[58] He expresses views on issues he feels strongly about in occasional columns he writes for.[59][60][61][62] Karan Paul is married to Indrani Dasgupta.[63][64][65][66][67]

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