He’s suddenly part of a family that controls businesses worth nearly $12 billion - it’s the equivalent of an almost inter-galactic leap ahead of his former course mates at Mumbai’s Thadomal Shahani Engineering College. He can thank Cupid’s arrow which struck some years ago after meeting a young lady who was involved in helping stray animals in Mumbai. They later collaborated on an NGO called Youth Organization in Defence of Animals, and their love story blossomed finally in September this year, Akarsh Hebbar tied the knot with
Priya Agarwal, daughter of mining baron
Anil Agarwal and heir to the Vedanta Group. The changes in lifestyle had begun even before he got engaged to her in April five months prior to the ring ceremony, the birthday gift he got from his then girlfriend was a shiny yellow Lamborghini. It was shipped all the way to Japan, since at that point he held a modest desk job with software solution firm in Tokyo. Things have come a long way for Akarsh post marriage the first step of course was quitting his job and relocating to London, where his father-in-law is based. While the Warwick University educated Priya is already on the board of Cairn, now Anil Agarwal is personally grooming his son-in-law so that he can formally inducted into the family business.
Your diarist has learnt that Akarsh was recently enrolled for the MBA programme at the prestigious London Business School, presumably to arm him with the skills required to steer a global conglomerate. While his new life brings new learnings, time also perhaps to unlearn old lessons he’s unlikely to need again like creating batch file formats for Flexcube.
