Charu Modi is an Indian entrepreneur and the promoter and shareholder of the K.K. Modi group. She is the granddaughter of the late Rai Bahadur
Gujarmal Modi
Gujarmal Modi (9 August 1902 – 22 January 1976) was an Indian industrialist and philanthropist, who co-established the Modi Group of companies and the industrial city of Modinagar in 1933, along with his brother Kedar Nath Modi. A sugar mill ...
and the daughter of
Krishan Kumar Modi
Krishan Kumar Modi (27 August 1940 – 2 November 2019), also known as K. K. Modi, was an Indian businessman and the President of Modi Enterprises. Among his three children is Lalit Modi.
Background
Modi was born in August 1940 in Patiala, the ...
and Bina Modi. Modi is the co-founder and chancellor o
KK Modi University (KKMU, an educational institute offering internationally accredited courses on Indian campuses. Modi is also the elder sister of
Lalit Modi, the former Indian cricket administrator and the founder of the
Indian Premier League (IPL) and
Samir Modi
Samir Modi (born 15 December 1969) is an Indian businessman, and the younger son of K.K. Modi and Bina Modi. He is an executive director at Modi Enterprises, which was founded by his grandfather, Gujarmal Modi, in 1933. He is also an executiv ...
, who manages the
Modi Group
Modi Enterprises is an Indian business conglomerate based in New Delhi, India. The US $2.8 billion group, consisting of Godfrey Phillips India, Indofil Industries Ltd., Modicare Limited, has a diversified business portfolio including cigarettes ...
's retail, network marketing and cosmetics ventures.
Personal life
Born in
New Delhi, Modi went to St. Mary’s Convent in
Nainital and completed her bachelor's degree in commerce from
Lady Shri Ram College in the Indian capital. In 1996, at the age of 33, she left India to attend an
MBA program at American Graduate School of International Management in
Arizona (later renamed as
Thunderbird School of Global Management) and then worked for
Kaiser Permanente and
Estée Lauder in the U.S. for three years.
Business career
Modi entered into business in the U.S. after noticing manpower shortages in critical areas of business during her employment with Kaiser Permanente. She is the founder and promoter of Modi Healthcare Placement, a nurse recruitment organisation in the U.S. She also serves as executive director at Modi Enterprises and Indofil Industries.
In March 2015, Modi and her father laid the foundation stone for K.K. Modi University in
Mahmara
Mohammadeh ( fa, محمده, also Romanized as Moḩammadeh and Muhammadeh; also known as Maḩmara) is a village in Khav and Mirabad Rural District, Khav and Mirabad District, Marivan County, Kurdistan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its pop ...
; Modi serves as the chancellor.
References
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Businesspeople from Delhi
People from Modinagar
Charu
1962 births
Living people