Bhanu Choudhrie is an accomplished entrepreneur who hails from Delhi. He pursued International Business and Marketing at the University of Boston. He served as executive director at C&C Alpha Group Ltd, a group that has a wide portfolio of investments. He has shared a lot of insights for aspiring entrepreneurs.
Move to the US
After finishing his degree in London, Bhanu Choudhrie moved to the United States to do an internship in 1999 at JP Morgan. It was an interesting phase of his life as new businesses and opportunities came up in London.
Winner of the 2008 Asian Entrepreneur of the Year Award
Mr. Choudhrie was excited to receive the award keeping in mind it is an Asian award and he hails from India. It is an exciting experience for him to learn, develop businesses and meet people in the country where he wasn’t born. He didn’t saw it coming and if he can do it, everyone else out there trying to be successful can do it.
Investment interests
While C&C Alpha Group invests in many areas, investing in the real estate as well as hospitality is pretty exciting for Mr. Bhanu Choudhrie. He likes the healthcare sector because he gets to interact with many people in the area from around the country. Another exciting investment that he has been involved in is in the aviation sector. His company invested in Air Deccan, an Indian airline that grew to fly over seven million people as well as have over 200 flights a day.
Taking risks
Bhanu Choudhrie and three others came together to invest in the airline in India. The investment turned out to be a fateful development with the company growing to become the largest airline India has ever had. The dotcom boom was a risky industry but the entrepreneur invested in www.ebookers.com anyway. The venture also became very successful.
A role at the board of New Century Bank in the US
After Mr. Choudhrie’s great grandfather’s Punjab National Bank, a leading bank in India, was taken away, the entrepreneur felt it is time to get back to the financial sector. They get into the financial sector to solve the problems America and the World faces with finance.
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