Darshan Hiranandani is a prominent Indian businessman best known for his role as CEO of real estate giant Hiranandani Group. He is also Chairman of Yotta Data Services, H-Energy, Tarq Semiconductors and Tez Platforms. His father Niranjan Hiranandani is the co-founder of the Hiranandani Group, which is headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
Wiki/Biography
Darshan Niranjan Hiranandani was born on Tuesday, October 13, 1981, in Mumbai, Maharashtra (42 years old; as of 2023). His zodiac sign is Libra. He received his MBA (Entrepreneurship and Finance) and BA (Management Information Systems) degrees from the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York.
appearance
Hair color: black
Eye color: black
family
Parents and siblings
His father Niranjan Hiranandani is the co-founder of the Hiranandani Group in Mumbai.
Darshan Hiranandani poses with his father
His mother, Kamal Hiranandani, is a businesswoman.
Photos of Darshan Hiranandani’s parents
Darshan Hiranandani’s sister Priya Vandrevala is an entrepreneur living in London.
Photos of Darshan Hiranandani’s sister Priya Vandrevala
Priya Hiranandani is married to London businessman Cyrus Vandrevala.
Priya Hiranandani and her husband
wife and children
Darshan Hiranandani married writer Neha Jhalani on March 18, 2009. Neha Jhalani is the daughter of Delhi-based businessman Pradeep Jhalani and his wife Shabnam Jhalani.
Darshan Hiranandani on her wedding day
Photos of Darshan Hiranandani wife Neha J Hiranandani
The couple has two children.
Relationships/Affairs
Darshan Hiranandani was in a relationship with Neha Jhalani before marrying her in 2009.
other relatives
His grandfather, Lakhumal Hiranand Hiranandani, was an Indian otolaryngologist, social activist and philanthropist who died in 2013.
Photos of Raghumar Hiranand Hiranandani
His grandmother Kanta Lakhumal Jamnadas Hiranandani passed away in 2014.
Lakhumal Hiranand Hiranandani photo with Kanta Hiranandani
His uncle Surendra Hiranandani is the co-founder of the Hiranandani Group in Mumbai.
Photos of Surendra Hiranandani
His other uncle, Navin Hiranandani, is a renowned otolaryngologist in Mumbai. He died in 2006.
Photos of Naveen Hiranandani
Profession
Darshan Hiranandani is known for his efforts to expand the Hiranandani Group’s real estate business globally and into emerging sectors such as data centers, cloud computing, energy, and industrial warehousing and logistics. According to him, his goal is to meet the country’s infrastructure needs and contribute to its economic growth. Darshan Hiranandani founded H-Energy Group of Companies in April 2009 in Mumbai. He was appointed CEO of Hiranandani Communities, Mumbai in February 2014. He started working as Managing Director at Nidar Group in Mumbai in January 2016. He founded “Greenbase, an industrial and logistics park in Mumbai in December 2018.
Mumbai Industrial Logistics Park Greenbase Pictures
Hiranandani Group is a prominent real estate development company headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, with projects spread across Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai and Hyderabad. The group is also involved in other sectors such as healthcare, education, energy and hospitality. In July 2020, a notable achievement of the Hiranandani Group under the leadership of Darshan was the inauguration of Yotta Infrastructure Solutions, the world’s second largest data center.
Darshan Hiranandani with his father at Yotta Enterprises
Darshan Hiranandani is an active member of various committees of ASSOCHAM, India’s oldest apex chamber of commerce with over 450,000 members. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of his alma mater, Rochester Institute of Technology, and of RIT Dubai. He is an advisory board member of the Sindh National University Council, Hyderabad, a Mumbai-based non-profit organization. As a member of the Hiranandani Group Board of Directors, he was instrumental in establishing Dr LH Hiranandani Hospital, a non-profit organization under the Hiranandani Foundation, which was awarded the Order of Merit in February 2004. The coveted Ramkrishna Bajaj Award for Best Hospital in India.
Photos of Dr. LH Hiranandani Hospital
Darshan Hiranandani founded the entertainment website Tez Platforms in February 2022.
Tez platform logo
dispute
sibling rivalry
In 2009, Darshan Hiranandani’s sister Priya Vandrevala accused him and his father of breaching the development agreement. The London Court of International Arbitration ruled in her favour, asking them to pay Rs. Rs 360 crore was provided to Priya in 2016.
Bribery charges
In October 2023, BJP’s Lok Sabha MP Nishikant Dubey alleged that Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra accepted “cash and gifts” from Darshan Hiranandani to raise issues in Parliament. Dubey said he received a letter from lawyer Jai Anant Dehadrai containing evidence of such bribery between Moitra and Hiranandani. Dolby said,
It appears that the representativeist Dehadrai has done meticulous research on the basis of which he has concluded that around 50 of the 61 issues raised by Moitra in Parliament recently were, shockingly, not related to Protect business interests related to Darshan Hiranandani and his companies. “
Photos of Mahua Moitra, MP Nishikant Dubey and Jai Anant Dehadrai
Awards, Honors, Achievements
- In 2015, Darshan Hiranandani’s hospital “Dr. LH Hiranandani Hospital”, a non-profit enterprise under the Hiranandani Foundation, won the Ramakrishna Bajaj Award for Best Hospital in India.
- In 2016, he won the Asia Pacific Quality Organization’s Best in Class Award for Global Performance Excellence.
- In 2021, Darshan Hiranandani received the National Award for Excellence in Business and the Business Tycoon of the Year Award.
Facts/Trivia
- According to his wife Neha J Hiranandani, she met Darshan during her visit to UNICEF.
Neha J Hiranandani posing at her home
- In 2004, Darshan Hiranandani founded the Hiranandani Group’s first overseas enterprise, 23 Marina, in Dubai.
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