Rajeev Samant is the entrepreneur, founder and CEO of Sula Vineyards. It is a wine producer company. He is from Mumbai, India. His net worth is more than 1000 crores.
EDUCATION
Rajeev completed his Industrial engineering and economics studies at Stanford University. After that, he studied at Wine and spirit education trust for level 3.
AWARDS AND HONORS
- He featured in Forbes India magazine
- India's largest wine producer company's owner
SUCCESS STORY
After completing his studies he joined Oracle Corporation as one of the youngest managers there. After passing a couple of years, he quit that job and decided to come to India and start his own startup.
After coming to India, he started farming mangoes, rose, teak wood, and table grapes at his family's land located in Nashik. After some years he realized that Nashik had the perfect climate for growing wine grapes. His thinking run when he returned to California and met with Kerry Damskey, He is an eminent winemaker. Rajeev told him about his wine-making idea. He agreed to help him start a winery.
In 1997, he took the revolutionary steps for growing wine grapes and he got good results. So, In 1998, Rajeev established Sula Vineyards and launched the release of their first wine in the year 2000. He invested 3 crores and some more in that startup.
Currently, His company becomes India's largest wine producer company. It is also the only Indian wine company in all price and product segments, including red, white, rose, and sparkling wine. Sula has the best wine distribution network in India over 160 of our own sales executives in key marketers nationwide.
Over 10,000 fest-goers had a weekend to remember, which depicts why Sulafest is the country's most awarded vineyard music festival.
