Hari Shankar Tibrewala

Hari Shankar Tibrewala

I’m an investor and the founder of Zenith Group. I was born in Kolkata in 1978 and lived there for thirty-five years. Today I divide my time between Dubai and London.

Hari Shankar Tibrewala

My family comes from Rajasthan. I grew up in Kolkata, I speak Bengali, and the city is still the place I think of as home.

I studied commerce at the University of Calcutta and then spent thirteen years in my family’s businesses, where I learned how companies actually run. In 2013 I moved to Dubai and founded Zenith Global Limited, which is still my main investment holding company. Since then I have set up companies in Dubai, Abu Dhabi and London, and in 2024 I sold a hotel project on Al Marjan Island for four times the equity we put in.

I invest in listed companies in India, the UK, Europe and the US, usually through a small number of concentrated positions that I hold for a long time. Now and then I invest in a private company before it lists.

More about me

Howrah Bridge over the Hooghly river in Kolkata on a foggy morning
Howrah Bridge, Kolkata. Photograph by Sandip Dey, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Recent writing

  1. Why I invest in businesses, not storiesThe four questions I ask before I buy anything.
  2. India over the next ten yearsThe slow changes I watch, and the risks I take seriously.
  3. What India, the Gulf and Europe have taught meNotes from a career that began in Kolkata.

Everything I’ve written