Narendra Raval (born 1962) is a Kenyan industrialist, entrepreneur and philanthropist of Indian Gujarati origin. Raval serves as the executive chairman of the Devki Group of Companies, a conglomerate in East Africa that manufactures steel, aluminum and cement.
He is estimated to have a net worth of US$400 million as of 2015, ranking him as the 46th richest African, and 2nd richest Kenyan based on the 2015 Forbes list of Africa's richest in Kenya.[1]
Early life and education
Raval was born in India, c. 1962. He became a priest at the temple of the Lord Narnarayandev in Bhuj at age 11, while still in India. As a teenager, Raval came to Kenya to work as an assistant priest at a temple in Kisumu, western Kenya, on the shores of Lake Victoria. In 1986, he abandoned his priesthood, married a Kenyan woman and with his wife started trading in building materials, starting out in the open marketplace (Gikomba), in Nairobi.[2]