Vikas Oberoi
Vikas Oberoi wiki, age, net worth, wife, father, family, siblings, education, religion, caste & more
| Biography | |
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| Name | Vikas Oberoi |
| Full Name | Vikas Ranvir Oberoi |
| Nickname | Vicky Oberoi |
| Profession | Indian entrepreneur CEO, Oberoi Realty Chairman & Managing Director at Oberoi Realty Ltd. Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of Oberoi Constructions Ltd. Trustee & Trustee-Employees Group Gratuity at Oberoi Foundation |
| Famous for | Being Gayatri Joshi‘s husband |
| Date of Birth | 1969 1 |
| Age (In 2023) | 54 Years |
| Birth Place | Mumbai, Maharashtra, India |
| Residence | Mumbai, Maharashtra, India |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Religion | Hinduism |
| Caste | Khatri |
| Mother Tongue | Punjabi |
| Height | in centimeters- 180 cm in meters- 1.80 m in Feet Inches- 5ft 11in |
| Eye Colour | Black |
| Hair Colour | Black |
| Family and Marriage Details | |
| Marital Status | Married |
| Wife/Spouse | Gayatri Joshi (Former Actress) |
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| Marriage Date | August 27, 2005 |
| Children | |
| Son(s) | Vihaan Oberoi Yuvaan Oberoi |
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| Parents | |
| Father | Ranvir Oberoi |
| Mother | Santosh Oberoi 2 |
| Sibling(s) | |
| Sister(s) | Bindu Oberoi |
| Other Relative(s) | |
| Grand Father (Paternal) | Din Dayal Oberoi |
| Father-in-law | Ramniwas Ji Runthala |
| Mother-in-law | Nootan Joshi |
| Sister-in-law(s) | Ahana Joshi |
| Education Details | |
| School | Not Known |
| College | Jai Hind College, Mumbai, Maharashtra Harvard Business School, Boston, MA |
| Educational Qualification | Owner/President Management programme at Harvard Business School Graduation from Jai Hind College, Mumbai |
| Companies | |
| Oberoi Realty Limited (Chairman & Managing Director, 1998-Present) Oberoi Constructions Ltd. (Managing Director, 1993-Present) Astir Realty LLP (Director, 2012-Present) Oberoi Foundation (Trustee & Trustee-Employees Group Gratuity, 2011-Present) Pinnacle Aviation Pvt Ltd. (Director, 2012-Present) Kingston Property Services Ltd. (Director, 2007-Present) | |
| Contact/Social Media Details | |
| linkedin.com/in/vikas-oberoi-a4a720104/ | |
| Website | oberoirealty.com |
| Email id | [email protected] |
| Other Details | |
| Favorite Food | Biryani 3 |
| Net Worth (Approx) | ₹24687 Crores ($3 Billion) 4 |
| Vikas Oberoi is an Indian Billionaire businessman. He is the chairman & managing director of Oberoi Realty Limited, one of India’s largest publicly listed real estate development companies headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra. Vikas is married to former bollywood actress Gayatri Joshi. | |
| He is also the founder of the ‘Oberoi Foundation’ which focuses on the development of educational institutions and other social infrastructure. The Oberoi International School which opened in 2008 in Mumbai is such an initiative by the Foundation that aims to provide a world-class education for children. | |
| He was born in the year 1969 to Ranvir Oberoi and his wife Santosh Oberoi in Mumbai, Maharashtra. He also has a sister, Bindu Oberoi. | |
| His father, Ranvir Oberoi started off as an investor and broker in Mumbai’s real estate market in the 1970s and the 1980s and operated from a 300 sq. ft office in Maker V in Nariman Point. He used to book flats in advance sales, putting down 10% of the cost & sold them at a profit later on after the prices rose. Ranvir Oberoi then decided to turn developer himself and liquidated all his investments in realty and started purchasing land instead. 5 | |
| Vikas Oberoi graduated from Mumbai’s Jai Hind College and after attending classes, he used to join his father by afternoon at his Nariman Point office. He is an alumnus of the Owner/President Management programme at Harvard Business School, Boston, USA. 5 | |
| In 2002, he acquired pharma company Novartis’s 60-acre campus in Goregaon, Mumbai for ₹107 crore and converted the plot into a residential-cum-commercial township that houses residential towers, a mall, two office buildings, a school, and a five-star hotel. Oberoi Realty also acquired another four-acre land parcel in Worli from pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline in 2003. | |
| Vikas Oberoi tied the knot with former bollywood actress Gayatri Joshi at the Grand Hyatt Hotel on 27 August 2005. His elder son, Vihaan Oberoi was born on 1 September 2006 and the younger son, Yuvaan Oberoi was born in 2008. | |
| In 2010, he was felicitated with the True Entrepreneur Of The Year Award at the Economic Times ACETECH Awards in Mumbai. 6 | |
| In 2013, he landed in trouble after Mohit Bhardwaj, a resident of Oberoi Splendour, one of his own projects lodged an FIR against him and 3 others accusing them of duping flat owners by delivering smaller flats with lesser ceilings than what was promised. According to his complaint, the developer had cheated the flat buyers to the tune of ₹142.56 crore. 7 | |
| He was also involved in the Stamp paper Controversy in 2014. According to the reports, 20 stamp papers of ₹100 each were purchased from Bombay High Court premises in May 2014. Originally the stamp papers were on the names of A A Lale but Oberoi and his accomplices applied a whitener on the names of A A Lale and changed it to Ajit Rajnikant Pancholi and also changed the stamp paper purchase date using the whitener. After that, the accused personated as Ajit Rajnikant Pancholi before the Notary and got the power of attorney notarised. Oberoi however denied all the claims. | |
| He was honoured with the “Best Successor – 2nd Generation” award at the HT Mumbai Real Estate Awards in 2018. 8 | |
| In 2020, he was ranked 1196th on Forbes World’s Billionaires list and 63rd on India’s Billionaires list. | |
| He holds 67.7% shares in Oberoi Realty Ltd. and was listed as the 65th richest Indian and 951st richest among the world’s billionaires with an estimated net worth of around $3 Billion or ₹24687 Crores by Forbes as of 30th October 2022.9 1 | |
| He has a passion for flying and skiing & holds a pilot’s license. | |
| Vikas Oberoi owns a Westin hotel in suburban Mumbai and is building the city’s first Ritz-Carlton hotel and residences. | |
| He is not related to the family behind the Oberoi hotel chain. | |
In October 2023, Vikas Oberoi and Gayatri Joshi met with a car accident in Sardina, Italy which left an elderly couple dead. The couple was on a vacation there and they were driving their dark blue Lamborghini during the Sardinia Supercar Tour. The collision took place when their Lamborghini and a red Ferrari tried to overtake a camper van at the same time, resulting in the overturning of the van and the Ferrari catching fire and the couple inside the Ferrari died. 10
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