Micky 'Mukesh' Jagtiani (born 15 August 1952) is an Indian businessman who owns the Dubai

Dubai

Dubai is a city and emirate in the United Arab Emirates . The emirate is located south of the Persian Gulf on the Arabian Peninsula and has the largest population with the second-largest land territory by area of all the emirates, after Abu Dhabi...

-based Landmark retail-stores group, with over 600 stores in the Gulf, India, Pakistan, China and Spain.

Early life and education

He did his schooling in Mumbai

Mumbai

Mumbai , formerly known as Bombay in English, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the most populous city in India, and the fourth most populous city in the world, with a total metropolitan area population of approximately 20.5 million...

 and Beirut

Beirut

Beirut is the capital and largest city of Lebanon, with a population ranging from 1 million to more than 2 million . Located on a peninsula at the midpoint of Lebanon's Mediterranean coastline, it serves as the country's largest and main seaport, and also forms the Beirut Metropolitan...

, before emigrating to London, where he joined a London accounting school from where he later flunked out......

Career

His first company was a family company diversified into leisure, food, hotels and electronics and its own logistics and distribution, today it employs around 24,000 people and has more than 840 stores across the Gulf, India, China Spain and Pakistan.

In 2008, Jagtiani now a billionaire mall developer and the Chairman, Landmark International, Dubai-based retail group, bought six percent stake in UK high-street retailer Debenhams

Debenhams

Debenhams plc is a British retailer operating under a department store format in the UK, Ireland and Denmark, and franchise stores in other countries. The Company was founded in the eighteenth century as a single store in London and has now grown to around 160 shops...

, and also entered the Forbes

Forbes

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list of billionaires in 2008, and the 16th richest Indian with a net worth of USD 2 billion.
Micky Jagtiani a billionaire expanding his business empire from gulf to china.

Philanthropy

In 2000, he established in 2000 s LIFE (Landmark International Foundation of Empowerment), to support underprivileged children in India, through school and healthcare development programmes, homes for destitute children, vocational and non-formal schools, community clinics and medical camps for slum-dwellers and an old age home Chennai

Chennai

Chennai , formerly known as Madras or Madarasapatinam , is the capital city of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, located on the Coromandel Coast off the Bay of Bengal. Chennai is the fourth most populous metropolitan area and the sixth most populous city in India...

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Personal life

He is married to Renuka who oversees "Splash", his company's fashion line, and they have two daughters and a son.

Recognition

He entered the Forbes

Forbes

Forbes is an American publishing and media company. Its flagship publication, the Forbes magazine, is published biweekly. Its primary competitors in the national business magazine category are Fortune, which is also published biweekly, and Business Week...

list of world billionaires in 2008.

External links

• Mukesh Jagtiani Profile