Dr. Navin Valrani

Vice Chairman and Managing Director

As Managing Director of the Al Shirawi Group and CEO of Arcadia Education, Dr. Navin Valrani pursues lifelong learning as a personal goal. After graduating from the Wharton School, he completed his MBA at London Business School, obtained a Master's in Education Entrepreneurship at Penn, and attained a doctorate degree in education after publishing research on the relationship between teachers' cultural backgrounds and their use of technology in the classroom. He also holds a College Counseling certificate from UCLA.

Dr. Valrani has started and run several companies across multiple industries, including HVAC, Building Services, Education, Healthcare, and Vending. He also sits on the board of the Oasis Investment Company, the holding company of Al Shirawi Group of Companies, a group that also has interests in Printing, Oil and Gas, Logistics, Electronics, Heavy Equipment, and Manufacturing Industries.

Dr. Valrani’s commitment to education extends beyond his professional life. He founded and taught the renowned Junior MBA program at Arcadia School, an entrepreneurship curriculum that prepares students for the business world. His dedication to service and teaching has been recognized with the William B. Castetter Award and a position on the Board of Advisors at Penn's Graduate School of Education. He also serves on the Advisory Council of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at the Harvard Kennedy School. He is a former board member of The Wharton School and a former International Alumni Council member at London Business School.

Sumeet Valrani

Senior Vice Chairman

Sumeet Valrani is the Senior Vice Chairman of Al Shirawi Equipment and Arabian Oasis Industry, and has also served as the Director at Al Shirawi Group since 1989. Prior to joining the industry, he earned his Bachelor's degree in Bachelor of Science and economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Kabir Valrani

Vice Chairman

Kabir Valrani is the Vice Chairman of Al Shirawi Group and CEO of Aswan International Engineering and Modern Plastic Industry.

Kabir completed his undergraduate degree from Boston College in Business Management & Marketing and OPM Executive Education from Harvard University.

Kabir’s passion for entrepreneurship has led him to become an active Endeavor Catalyst Investor for fast-growing and high-impact entrepreneurs and he has created an ignition fund for innovation and entrepreneurship for new student start-ups.

Since 1997, when Kabir joined the business, he has been instrumental in several joint ventures, and technical license partnerships with leading companies in Europe, the UK, and the USA. Today, Modern Plastic Industry and Aswan International Engineering are state-of-art-facilities with a high degree of automation and advanced technology. He believes that our enterprises should be ‘the one-stop facility for our customer’s needs and provide our customers reliability, quality and value’.

Rohan Valrani

Deputy CEO

Rohan Valrani is the first third-generation member of the Valrani family to join Al Shirawi Group, bringing with him a combination of academic distinction, entrepreneurial drive, and operational experience.

Rohan holds a Bachelor's degree with honours in Philosophy, Politics & Economics from the University of Pennsylvania, and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (2024).

He joined Al Shirawi Group in 2020 as a Business Development Executive within the Engineering & Healthcare Services cluster, and was appointed Deputy CEO upon completing his MBA. He now oversees 20+ business units across manufacturing (HVAC, joinery), distribution (HVAC, plumbing, firefighting, healthcare), contracting (MEP, fitout, infrastructure, civil, waterproofing), and services (facilities management, parking, retrofit) — operating across the GCC, Egypt, and India.

Since assuming leadership, Rohan has spearheaded the Group's entry into Saudi Arabia through Leminar Global, expanding its HVAC distribution and manufacturing footprint into one of the region's most dynamic markets. He has also founded two new business units — Unibor, a specialist microtunneling company serving the UAE's growing infrastructure sector, and ChillCore, a chiller services company — reflecting his commitment to identifying and building businesses in underserved niches.

Rohan has driven significant revenue and profitability growth across the cluster while leading a forward-looking technology agenda - including factory digitizations, human capital management, and generative AI applications across back office functions.