Rajesh Goenka is a London based entrepreneur and businessman, and is well known
in the UK, Indian and International business circles. A chemical engineering graduate from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay(1980), he started his career in a family industrial venture in Saudi Arabia in 1981. In the early 90s he ventured out and set up a business in the CIS (Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan) in the area of turnkey project supply and execution in the packaging and processing industry. This venture went on to become a leader in its business segment having handled a large number of contracts in different parts of CIS. Rajesh made a successful exit from this venture
in 2003 by selling it at a profitable valuation. In 2001, Rajesh also set up a steel handling and distribution network headquartered in Dubai
for the Middle East and CIS markets. This was a successful venture and the distribution network was bought out by Principal in 2006 when the company decided to pursue the policy of owning all their distribution networks giving Rajesh a profitable exit. Rajesh forayed into Indian Real Estate development in 2006 and set up Urban Infra Nirmaan(UIN).
UIN invested in Palolem Hills project in 2009-10 and bought out Eclectic, the land holding
SPV from the previous owners. Apart from Palolem Hills at Goa, UIN also undertook a major project - Mayavan, a 140 acre residential resort in Vrindavan near Delhi. As this became a larger project progressively, UIN brought in other partners namely Infinity Group, Poddar Heritage and the recently inducted Zuari Group, all of are well known, highly respected and trusted Groups.
The other project conceived and implemented by UIN is Zuari Garden City, a 75 acre
integrated township in Mysore. This project is well progressed with first phase comprising 250 villas sold and to be delivered by December 2013. UIN is the Development Manager for the project.
Besides India, Rajesh is active internationally, and in the UK, in technology sector, including platofrm and app development, digital marketing and a range of related areas.
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