Manilal Premchand Chandaria is a Kenyan businessman of Indian descent born in Nairobi on March 1, 1929.
Chandaria attended various schools in Nairobi and Mombasa in Kenya from where he proceeded to India for his undergraduate studies. He graduated from Jamnagar India University, Bombay in 1949 with a Bachelor of Science from whence he proceeded to Oklahoma in the US.
He graduated in 1950 with a Bachelor of Science in Engineering and continued with his masters, which he obtained in 1951 from the University of Oklahoma.
Manilal Chandaria Business Career
Manu Chandaria rise to wealth is not the typical rags to riches story because he was from a well to do family and an industrious one for that matter. His family already had shares in the Kenyan Aluminum company, however, it was under his care the Comcraft Group of Companies became a multi-billionaire dollar company.
Today, he is a senior member and the chairman of the Comcraft Group of Companies. He is equally on the executive boards of many companies in Kenya and East Africa.
Manilal Chandaria Net Worth
According to gluesea.com, Chandaria is worth $1.7 billion.