Asian Power Couples Hot 100 - 2013 | Page 28

Asian Power Couples Rami & Renu Ranger Rami & Renu Ranger Raminder (Rami) Singh Ranger MBE is a successful entrepreneur and social and political reformer. He founded Sun Mark Ltd in 1987 and it is now one of Britain’s fastest growing companies with an annual turnover in excess of £150 million per annum. Rami is active in the British Asian community. He co-founded the British Asian Conservative Link and served the organisation for over a decade as its General Secretary. He is the founder member of the Hindu Forum Britain and set up the Pakistan, India & UK Friendship Forum. He is the Chairman of the British Sikh Association and founded the Shaheed Nanak Singh Foundation in memory of his father. In November 2012, Rami Ranger was asked to join the Princes Trust Enterprise Fellowship. Renu Ranger studied at the Lady Shri Ram College for Women, one of the well known arts colleges of University of Delhi. She currently works at Sunmark Ltd and undertakes philanthropic work in her spare time. Asif & Shakiba Rangoonwalla Asif Rangoonwalla Asif Rangoonwala is a successful entrepreneur involved in philanthropic activities through the Rangoonwala Foundation established by his late father. Asif founded UK-based Eurobuns Limited, a successful venture in the industrial baking sector, with a turnover of £40 million per annum and employing over 400 people, for which he received the Queens Award. He is also a key player in the South Street property business - a rapidly growing provider of student accommodation and recently launched the Swanbourne property fund with a portfolio of rental assets approaching £1bn. He runs the World Championship for Powerboat P1 Grand Prix series, the top class of speedboat races, in which he is reported to have invested a sizeable proportion of his £100 million estimated fortune. A native of Pakistan, Asif is a fellow of the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award, Trustee of the Whitefield Development Trust, Director of The Indus Entrepreneurs UK, Board Member of The British Asian Trust and Chairman of the World Memon Foundation. Shakiba Rangoonwala is a philanthropist serving as a board member of The Lily Foundation, which works against human trafficking, and as Trustee of The Rangoonwala Foundation. She is also qualified nutritionist and homeopath with a practice in Mayfair. 28