“My philosophy is always to look at the long-term opportunity. Take a business with potential, put in a management team you trust and give them a stake in its future.”
Bhanu Choudhrie
BIOGRAPHY
“EVERY ENTREPRENEUR IS A HERO TO ME”
EXPERIENCE
Achievements
Alpha Hospitals
Bhanu helped set up Alpha Hospitals, a specialist provider of psychiatric care, and was a board member from its inception. The business enjoyed strong growth, employing more than 1000 staff across three sites. It was incubated successfully by C & C Alpha Group for 13 years before its sale to an American firm, Cygnet Healthcare in 2015.
Alpha Aviation
Bhanu provides strategic direction to Alpha Aviation, which he founded in 2011. It has since become one of the leading pilot training facilities both in south east Asia and the Middle East. It was hailed by the UK Prime Minister’s Trade Envoy to the Philippines Richard Graham MP for its role in training female cadets. The Academy in the UAE was recently awarded “Training Provider of the Year 2018” at the Aviation Business Awards.
Alpha Utilities
Bhanu is involved in the UAE-based Alpha Utilities, a leading water technology firm, which in 2017 won a major contract from Sharjah Electricity and Water Authority to build a seawater reverse osmosis desalination plant in the emirate, with a capacity of 2.2 million imperial gallons per day giving Alpha Utilities in combination with its initial plant an output of 3.7 million gallons per day.
Customers Bancorp
Bhanu is a former director and sat on the Executive and Risk Committees of Customers Bank in Philadelphia, which has won widespread acclaim for its BankMobile division, America’s largest and fastest-growing mobile-first bank, whose chairman and CEO Jay Sidhu has been honoured as a 2018 Change Agent.
Commonwealth Games
Bhanu was appointed chairman of the Business Advisory Board for Commonwealth Games England in 2010 to raise money for a team of more than 500 athletes who represented the country at the Delhi Games that year. In 2012, he joined the board as a non-executive director of Commonwealth Games England.
Awards
Bhanu was named Entrepreneur of the Year at the 2008 Asian Voice Political and Public Life Awards. The award was made in recognition of his wide-ranging business successes and for his philanthropic work with charities and other enterprises.
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