PNC Menon

Puthan Naduvakkatt Chenthamaraksha Menon or PNC Menon is an Indian-born Omani billionaire businessman hailing from Thrissur in Kerala. He is the Founder and Chairman of Sobha Ltd. (Formerly Sobha Developers Ltd).& Sobha LLC

Biography

Menon was born on 12 December 1948 . As his father was doing business in Thrissur, he grew and studied there. At the age of 10, he lost his father. Afterwards, he dropped out of Sree Kerala Varma College, Thrissur, to do interior decoration business without completing his education At the age of 26, he left Kerala for Oman, where over the years he developed his interior decoration business into a profitable venture. In 1995, he started Sobha Ltd. in Bangalore named after his wife. He is married to Sobha and has two daughters, Bindu and Revathi, and one son Ravi Menon.

Philanthropy

P.N.C. Menon, established the Sri Kurumba Educational & Charitable Trust in 1994, a year before he founded Sobha Developers. The trust adopted Vadakkenchery and Kizhakkenchery - two Panchayats each consisting 2 villages in Palakkad district, Kerala, his native state, in 2006. In the adopted villages, the trust helps families with very low monthly income and provides education to children from 2,500 poor families (about 11000 people). PNC Menon and his wife Sobha joined The Giving Pledge list a philanthropic initiative started by Warren Buffett, former Microsoft chairman Bill Gates and his wife Melinda.

Awards and honours

• 2015: Arabian Indian Czar Award from News Channel Times Now
• 2015: Management Leadership Excellence Award from Calicut Management Association
• 2014: Golden Peacock Lifetime Achievement Award for Business Leadership from Golden Peacock Awards
• 2014: Dhanam Lifetime Achievement Award from Business Magazine Dhanam
• 2014: Malayalee Business Achiever Award from Pegasus Group
• 2014: Excellence in Business Award for corporate Social Responsibility by The Times of India
• 2013: Business Man of the Year from State Forum of Bankers Clubs Kerala
• 2013: 4th Rank in Top 100 Indians in UAE by Forbes
• 2013: Lifetime Achievement Award, from NDTV
• 2012: Special Recognition for "Dedicated Service to Civil Engineering and the Construction Industry" - Civil-Aid Techno Clinic Pvt. Ltd.
• 2009: Pravasi Bharatiya Samman, by the Government of India