Arun Pudur

Arun Pudur (born October 10, 1977) is an Indian origin Billionaire,[1][2] Businessman, Serial Entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist. His operations headquarters are in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and New York, USA. Pudur started his career fixing scooters in his garage at age 13, he then started breeding champion dogs before venturing into technology.[3] He is the Founder and Group President of Celframe, the world’s second largest Office Productivity Suite software company after Microsoft Office,.[4][5] In his tenure, Celframe rose from a backend support company to a Multi-Billion Dollar Technology company with businesses around the Global while it is privately held and majority owned by him. He is consistently ranked in lists of Billionaires. Arun Pudur is Asia's richest,[4] under 40 person with wealth more than $4 billion [6] and is also ranked 10th among World’s Richest in the list published by Bloomberg, CNBC, WSJ, Wealth-x,[7] Market Watch,[8] and CNN [9] among other major publications worldwide. Pudur is the only Indian Billionaire to make the list which includes Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook among other billionaires.[10]

Early life

Pudur was born in Chennai, but his family shifted to Bengaluru, as his father used to stay 7 to 8 months an year there. His father, Sri Ranga, was a cinematographer, known for his 16mm movies. He had chosen commerce as field of interest in college, as opposed to science, despite everyone around him telling him to take science. He is an alumni of Bangalore University. He started his career starting a scooter garage to fix Kinetic Honda and soon franchised the garage all over Karnataka state. He says that he learned all the marketing skills, problem solving, customer handling, during his time at the garage.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Indian-Origin Arun Pudur in Top 10 Under-40 Rich List". Ndtv.com. 2015-03-04. Retrieved 2015-12-01.
  2. ↑ "The 10 Wealthiest People Under 40". Wsj.com. Retrieved 2015-12-01.
  3. 1 2 Tarannum Khan (2015-03-17). "Arun Pudur: From Bengaluru to billions". Deccanherald.com. Retrieved 2015-12-01.
  4. 1 2 "Rich Asian entrepreneurs under 40". Cnbc.com. Retrieved 2015-12-01.
  5. ↑ "Indian tech billionaire, Arun Pudur tops Asia's wealthiest under-40 list". Deccanchronicle.com. 2015-05-11. Retrieved 2015-12-01.
  6. ↑ "Wealth-X Reveals: The World's Top 10 Wealthiest People Under 40". Bloomberg. 2015-03-04. Retrieved 2015-12-01.
  7. ↑ "Reveals: The World’s Top 10 Wealthiest People Under 40". Wealth-X. 2015-03-04. Retrieved 2015-12-01.
  8. ↑ Fottrell, Quentin (2015-04-27). "10 wealthiest people in the world under 40". MarketWatch. Retrieved 2015-12-01.
  9. ↑ Harrison, Virginia (2015-03-04). "Young and super rich: Top 10 billionaires under 40 - Mar. 4, 2015". Money.cnn.com. Retrieved 2015-12-01.
  10. ↑ "Mark Zuckerberg tops world’s wealthiest people under 40 list; India’s Arun Pudur at No 10". The Financial Express. 2015-03-05. Retrieved 2015-12-01.


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