Sunil Vaswani

While going archives of Forbes Middle East you are bound to notice that for two consecutive years 2015 & 2016 Sunil Vaswani is there on first Rank on list of Top Indian Leaders in the Arab World. Sunil Vaswani cannot claim for being Indian Sindhi though he was born at Jaipur Rajasthan on 11 July 1963 but was migrated to Nigeria with father Sundar D Vaswani and other family members. After the childhood Sunil Vaswani went to UK for the education and become Graduate with economics and accounting as the principal subjects.
Dubai based Sunil Vaswani is Nigerian and British passport holder and working as chairman of the Stallion Group. If we look at life Sunil Vaswani, he strongly proves myth truth that one need not to teach swimming to young fishes and Similarly Sindhi kids didn’t need business training, business run with Sindhi blood. He was just of 21 years of age when he took over charge of family business from father in Nigeria. Sunil Vaswani is also illustration of cosmopolitan presence of Sindhi people. Sunil Vaswani was born in India, brought up in Nigeria, educated in London and doing business in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
If one look at the products list of Stallion Group might get surprised how this fellow Sunil Vaswani is managing business of this group. Some of the key products handled by group are – rice, fertilizers, fish, edible oil, sugar, building materials etc. Even the automobiles are there as an exclusive brand portfolio and list is inclusive of Nissan, Honda, Hyundai, Porsche, Volkswagen, Audi, Skoda, Changan and Ashok Leyland. So, if we wish to summarize, we can say Stallion Group’s business bag contains commodities trading, frozen foods, auto assembly and dealerships.
He opted to shift to Dubai, as due to a tax dispute or rather alleged duty evasion a legal dispute arose between Government of Nigeria and Sunil Vaswani. In the Nigeria Vaswani was involved mainly with trading business. Fortunately, this dispute didn’t end to any wrong doing but he was asked to leave the country and family was allowed to return.
In the April 2016 net worth of Sunil Vaswani was $2 billion, so no question why he is Gulf’s richest Indian since successive four years. Many wonders about success and growth of Sunil Vaswani but here is answer, in his own words –

I just never give up. If I set my mind on something, I just go for it and keep trying until I get it.

He is expanding his business reach to Africa also in steel, petrochemicals and agriculture sector with an investment of $9 billion. 
On the family side Sunil Vaswani is married with Ria and couple is blessed with three children. Sunil Vaswani lives in Dubai’s tony Emirates Hills in an opulent mansion, with facilities like indoor aviary, a nightclub, an automatic car wash and even casino around. His two younger brothers Haresh and Mahesh Vaswani are working with him in the same company.