PNC Menon The 71-year-old real estate tycoon has a track record of building billion-dollar companies. His UAE-based Sobha Realty’s operation is scheduled to become a billion-dollar operation within the next 3-5 years – thanks largely to its 8-million-square-foot gated community in Dubai’s Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum City. The Indian division of Sobha Realty, managed by his son, is also on course to becoming a billion-dollar company within the same timeframe. Menon says his legacy real estate deal is a proposed 60-storey project on Sheikh Zayed Road. The Middle East veteran is also set to start up another venture that he hopes will scale to a $1bn business – but he won’t reveal the nature or location of that business just yet. Related Stories Is now a good time to invest in Dubai property? Sobha reports strong first-half sales UAE’s Sobha Group founder and chairman: Taking the long view Sobha Group’s chairman on building a real estate brand Developer Sobha Group plans Oman project, to expand outside real estate Developer Sobha to soon launch mega affordable project in Dubai You might also like Sunil John Dr. Thumbay Moideen Vidya Chhabria Mohan Valrani K. Rajaram Dr. Adnan Chilwan Sanjiv Kakkar Ram Kumar Thota Raghu Malhotra Sunil Kaushal Atif Rahman Amit Jain Rishi Kapoor Vasu Shroff Anil Pillai Bal Krishen Rohit and Sharad Bachani Raju Ramesh and Sunil Paul Ayesha Depala John Paul Joy Alukkas Geet Bhalla and Digvijay Pratap Snehal and Sunita Hadani Nisha Jagtiani Kunal Kapoor Dino Varkey Ashish Panjabi Joy Alukkas Yogesh Mehta Yusuff Ali M.A. Ravi Pillai Micky Jagtiani Sunny Varkey Sunil Vaswani Shamsheer Vayalil Firoz Merchant Rajen Kilachand Azad Moopen Tony Jashanmal Paras Shahdadpuri Dr. Zulekha Daud Adeeb Ahamed Dhananjay Datar Rizwan Sajan Sima Ved Shaji Ul Mulk Ramesh Prabhakar L.T. Pagarani Ram Buxani Surender Kandhari Sohan Roy Shyam Bhatia