Karan Bilimoria, Baron Bilimoria

Karan Faridoon Bilimoria, Baron Bilimoria CBE (* November 26, 1961 in Hyderabad, India) is a British businessman and life peer, who is best known as the founder and CEO of Cobra Beer.

Life and career

Bilimoria was born in Hyderabad, India, the son of a Parsi family. He studied at the Osmania University, graduating in 1981 with a Bachelor of Commerce. Subsequently, he worked for Ernst & Young before he studied law at Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge, and this study ended with a Bachelor of Arts.

He founded Cobra Beer in 1989, its goal the creation of a lager that is suitable for consumption by its taste with curry and other dishes was. Because of its economic merits he was awarded in 2004 as a Commander of the British Empire.

Bilimoria is the deputy president of the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry and exercised the office of Deputy Lieutenant (DL ) in the London Borough of Hounslow from. He was appointed to the British Board of the Indo British Partnership ( IBP) in 2003 and is a founder of the India British Council ( UKIBC ). He became the youngest Chancellor of Thames Valley University in 2005.

Bilimoria was appointed Baron Bilimoria, of Chelsea in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea for life peer on 16 June 2006. He was the first parse the House of Lords and is there a Cross Bencher. In 2008 he was the Indian President Pravasi Bharatiya Samman from the.

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