The Indian entrepreneur Joy Alukkas has a net worth of $2 billion.
Joy Alukkas, who is the Managing Director of Joyalukkas India Limited and the Chairman of Joyalukkas Jewellery LLC, a gold and diamond retail jewelry chain in Dubai, is among the wealthiest individuals in India.
In 1987, he made the decision to leave school and start a jewelry business in the Gulf as a teenager, where he opened the family’s first jewelry store in Abu Dhabi.
After more than a decade, he expanded his business by launching the Joyalukkas, a self-titled jewelry chain worth $1.35 billion. The company has 85 stores in India and the Middle East, with its headquarters in Cochin, South India.
Alukkas is also involved in a luxury air charter, currency exchange, and Jolly Silks, a Silk firm that is well-known within the Joy Alukkas Group of companies.
According to reports, he recently acquired an Embraer Phenom 300, which is meant for his Joy Jets, a highly sought-after air charter aircraft among India’s politicians and tycoons.