Karan Bilimoria

Karan Bilimoria left India for his higher education in the United Kingdom and founded Cobra Beer when he was a 27-year-old Cambridge law graduate with £20,000 in student debts. His mission: To brew the finest-ever Indian beer and to make it a global beer brand. Today, Cobra Beer is one of the fastest-growing beer brands in the UK; it exports to nearly 50 countries around the world and has a retail-value turnover of £126 million. Karan is Chairman of the UK India Business Council and Chancellor of Thames Valley University. He was awarded the CBE in 2004 and was appointed The Lord Bilimoria, of Chelsea, in 2006.