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

Business Development Executive, Engineering & Healthcare Services Group

Rohan Valrani is the first third-generation member of the Valrani family to join the Al Shirawi Group.

After graduating with honours in Philosophy, Politics, Economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 2020, Rohan joined the Engineering & Healthcare Services cluster of Al Shirawi Group as a Business Development Executive. During university, Rohan was an Executive Board Member of the Student Federal Credit Union, offering banking services to Penn students and alumni.

Since joining the Group, he has focused on digital transformation and innovation across the cluster, and filled in the role of Acting General Manager of Al Shirawi Interiors. Rohan is pursuing a full-time MBA at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania beginning Fall 2022 and is keen on improving his managerial capabilities to enable future growth in the Group.