Sudhir Choudhrie
| Sudhir Choudhrie | |
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 sudhir choudhrie.jpg Sudhir Choudhrie, Executive Director of Magnum International Trading Company | |
| Born | September 1949 Delhi |
| 🏡 Residence | London, United Kingdom |
| 🏳️ Nationality | Indian |
| 🏳️ Citizenship | Indian/British |
| 🏫 Education | University of Delhi |
| 💼 Occupation | Executive Director |
| 👔 Employer | Magnum International Trading Company |
| Notable work | "From My Heart - A Tale of Life, Love and Destiny" |
| 🏡 Home town | Dehli, India |
| 🏛️ Political party | UK Liberal Democrats |
| 🏅 Awards | Asian Business Lifetime Achievement Award 2013 |
| 🌐 Website | http://www.ccalphagroup.co.uk/our-team/ |
| https://www.facebook.com/Frommyheartthebook | |
Sudhir Choudhrie is a London-based successful entrepreneur, businessman, art collector, vintage car collector, and philanthropist.[1] He was raised in Delhi, India living but suffered throughout his life with heart disease, culminating in a heart transplant in 1999.[2]
Early Life & Education[edit]
Sudhir Choudhrie was born in September 1949. He and his brother were raised in Delhi, India by their mother who took them all to live with their paternal grandparents after their father’s death in a car accident. At the time of his father's death, Sudhir was only 4 1/2 years old. Choudhrie calls his mother his “role model in life.”[3]
When Sudhir was 8 years old, his doctor discovered he had a rare heart condition that would cause him a lifetime of health problems.
Despite his health issues, Choudhrie graduated from the University of Delhi with a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Delhi.[4] He passed up the opportunity to join his grandfather’s real estate business and decided instead to start up his own business.[5]
Career[edit]
After college graduation, Choudhrie began his own business buying TV equipment from the United Kingdom and selling it to the Indian government to develop the country’s growing television network in the 1960s and 1970s. He expanded his business and began to do the same buying and selling transactions with consumer goods.[6]
In 1975, he founded the Magnum International Trading Company, where he focused on export markets.[7]
He worked with Taj Hotels and Resorts to create Taj Kerala, local Indian resorts that catered to both locals and tourists.
He interacted with Adidas to create a branch called Adidas Indian Trading Company, which now has over 180 stores and manufacturing facilities in India.
From 1992 to 2004, he served as Latvia’s Honorary Consul General to India.
Theresa May awarded him with the “Asian Business Lifetime Achievement Award 2013.”
Author[edit]
In 2017, Choudhrie’s book “From My Heart: A Tale of Life, Love and Destiny” was published.[8] The book chronicles his early life and the advantages of growing up in a privileged household in India. He also discusses the knowledge he had from an early age that his heart would one day fail him. This inspired him to write about his 1999 heart transplant. As of 2019, he is one of the longest surviving heart transplant patients in the world.[9]
His book details his life long after the completion of the surgery. It was a number one international best-seller on Amazon in its first week of release.
Collector of Indian Arts & Vintage Cars[edit]
Sudhir Choudhrie is an avid collector of Indian art and vintage cars.[10]
In 2008, he and his wife founded the Stellar International Art Foundation, which has collected more than 600 pieces of Indian art. The Foundation held its first exhibition in 2015 in London, featuring the art of M.F. Husain who has been called “the Picasso of India.”
Also included in the Art Foundation’s collection are works by one of Delhi’s most accomplished contemporary artists, Paresh Maity. Other works are by artists Tracey Emin, Damian Hirst, Andy Warhol, and Anish Kapoor, among others.
Choudhrie’s interest in car collecting began when he was a child when he collected more than 100 Dinky cars.[11] He now has vintage car collections from many different countries. He has seven mechanics working on their restoration, which he calls a labor of love. Some restorations take up to 10 years due to the difficulty in finding parts. He has one of the finest private car collections in India.[12]
Politics[edit]
Choudhrie has been a long-time supporter of the Liberal Democrat Party in the United Kingdom. In 2015, Liberal Democrat leader, Tim Farron, appointed Choudhrie to be an advisor in developing relationships with the British-Indian community as well as business relationships with India.
Philanthropy[edit]
In 2009, Choudhrie became a benefactor of the University of Columbia establishing the Sudhir Choudhrie Professorship of Cardiology.[13]
The Choudhrie Family Foundation was established in 2010. The purpose is to fund medical, health, and educational projects in the United States, the United Kingdom, and other countries. The Foundation supports research in cardio-vascular medicine, and one of its goals is to encourage people to sign up to be organ donors.
Sudhir Choudhrie is also a Radcliffe Fellow of Green Templeton College at the University of Oxford.[14]
Personal Life[edit]
Choudhrie is one of the longest surviving heart transplant recipients in the world. He and his wife Anita have two sons, Bhanu and Dhairya. Anita shares her husband's love of Indian art and vintage cars and is herself an avid collector of both.
Press[edit]
https://www.theexeterdaily.co.uk/news/local-news/sudhir-choudhrie-featured-dr-oz-show
https://healthtian.com/sudhir-choudhrie-still-going-strong-20-years-after-heart-transplant/
https://neconnected.co.uk/the-gift-of-life-provides-sudhir-choudhrie-with-a-new-passion/
References[edit]
- ↑ https://www.f6s.com/sudhirchoudhrie
- ↑ https://peoplepill.com/people/sudhir-choudhrie/
- ↑ http://professionaltales.com/sudhir-choudhrie/
- ↑ https://uk.linkedin.com/in/sudhirchoudhrie
- ↑ http://www.ccalphagroup.co.uk/our-team/
- ↑ https://www.crunchbase.com/person/sudhir-choudhrie
- ↑ https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/person/5174074
- ↑ https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sudhir-Choudhrie/e/B01N4QXTYV%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share
- ↑ https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/author/sudhir-choudhrie/
- ↑ https://www.varsity.co.uk/sponsored/sudhir-choudhrie-businessman-philanthropist-and-vintage-german-car-collector
- ↑ https://realwealthbusiness.com/sudhir-choudhrie-vintage-car/
- ↑ https://www.autoworldnews.com/articles/39654/20200131/french-cars-featured-in-sudhir-choudhries-vintage-collection.htm
- ↑ https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sudhir_Choudhrie
- ↑ https://www.gtc.ox.ac.uk/about/fellows/sudhir-choudhrie/
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