Arun Pudur

Arun Pudur (born 10 October 1977) is an Indian businessman. He is the founder and group president of Celframe, a company that produces office productivity Celframe office. The company is privately held and majority-owned by Pudur.

Arun Pudur
Born (1977-10-10) 10 October 1977
Chennai, India
NationalityIndian
OccupationPresident of Celframe

Early life and education

Pudur was born in Chennai, but his family shifted to Bengaluru, as his father used to stay 7 to 8 months a year there. His father, Sri Ranga, was a cinematographer.[1][2] Pudur is a graduate of the University of Bangalore, majoring in Business Management.[3][4]

Career

Pudur claimed to have made his first $1 million at age 21, and to have become a billionaire at 26.[5] Pudur founded Celframe in 2001.[4] Based in Malaysia, the privately held technology company reported revenue of $3.6 billion in 2010.[6] Pudur told Billionaire.com in August 2015 that Celframe earned revenues of $6.8 billion the previous year.[4]

In 2015, global wealth intelligence and prospecting company Wealth-X ranked Pudur #10 on their list of the richest people under 40 in the world, with an estimated worth of $4 billion.[1][7][8][9][10][11] The ranking made Pudur the richest person under 40 in Asia.[11] Celframe's software package Pudur himself claimed to be the world's second most popular after Microsoft Office.[1][2][6][10][11] In addition to technology, Pudur claims to have various businesses including real estate, gold, and mining.[4][3][5][6]

In July 2016, Forbes Asia published an article stating that it had been unable to verify any of Pudur's claims about his company's earnings, customers, or business associates.[12]

See also
  • List of people from Tamil Nadu

References
  1. Khan, Tarannum (17 March 2015). "Arun Pudur: From Bengaluru to billions". Deccan Herald. Retrieved 1 December 2015.
  2. "Full Show: Arun Pudur on High Flyers". Bloomberg Television. 8 July 2016. Retrieved 26 July 2016.
  3. "Daulton Capital enters into US$105 million forward gold sales contract with Dubai's Salam International". BusinessIntelligence Middle East. 26 June 2012. Archived from the original on 17 August 2016. Retrieved 5 August 2016.
  4. Loader Wilkinson, Tara (6 August 2015). "Arun Pudur: Billionaire Tech Lessons". Billionaire.com. Archived from the original on 8 August 2015. Retrieved 11 August 2016.
  5. Reddy, Sujata (8 May 2015). "Arun Pudur: Meet the only Indian-origin billionaire in the richest under-40 list". The Economic Times. Retrieved 5 August 2016.
  6. Shankar Roy, Kumar (25 May 2015). "India is a rich country, must do what it wants". Financial Chronicle. Archived from the original on 11 September 2016. Retrieved 5 August 2016.
  7. "Reveals: The World's Top 10 Wealthiest People Under 40". Wealth-X. 4 March 2015. Archived from the original on 8 December 2015. Retrieved 1 December 2015.
  8. "Indian-Origin Arun Pudur in Top 10 Under-40 Rich List". NDTV. 4 March 2015. Retrieved 1 December 2015.
  9. Fottrell, Quentin (27 April 2015). "10 wealthiest people in the world under 40". MarketWatch. Retrieved 1 December 2015.
  10. "Rich Asian entrepreneurs under 40". CNBC. 7 May 2015. Retrieved 1 December 2015.
  11. "Indian tech billionaire, Arun Pudur tops Asia's wealthiest under-40 list". Deccan Chronicle. 11 May 2015. Retrieved 1 December 2015.
  12. Chung, Grace; Koppisch, John (6 July 2016). "Wannabe Billionaire: Arun Pudur's Tech Fortune May Be Largely Fiction". Forbes Asia. Retrieved 22 July 2016.
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