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The Finalists
Business in community Naynesh Desai Naynesh Desai is a partner and solicitor with Ellis Taylor LLP at Chancery Lane, London. He is also a shareholder in a Sports Management Agency, Mission Sports Management Limited in partnership with Sir Ian Botham who represent a number of high profile cricketers including Kevin Pietersen and a number of other athletes. Naynesh has represented a number of leading cricketers throughout the world including Wasim Akram, Mohammed Azharuddin, Devon Malcolm and Mark Ramprakash. He is involved with the celebrity cricket club The Bunbury’s and chaired their Annual Dinner for the last three years. Over these last three years they have raised over £650,000 which have benefited charities like The Leukaemia Research Fund, The English Schools Cricket Association and The Crossroads Clinics and have put money into developing grass roots cricket by sponsorship of The English Schools Cricket Association.
Satish Parekh Satish Parekh is the Managing Director of EducationNOW, which is a trading name of Hema.Com Limited. He is a pioneering entrepreneur, who is not afraid to venture outside his comfort zone. Having established a successful business in the Importing and Exporting of Solid Wood floors across the world, he has opened avenues into his passion for helping children of the ethnic community with their studies. His lifetime ambition is to make the education available to families from all walks of life! His motto is “ It’s not if, It’s when … and when is NOW! ” His business achievements have been recognised by industry leaders in the past. He has received a few highly respected awards such as Harlow Business Awards and many more.
Narendra Patel Narendra Patel established the “Meera Catering” at a unit in Wembley Trading Centre in 1997. Due to the high demand of its services, Meera Catering moved to Meera Complex in Stanmore within a year. Since then, Meera Catering has successfully catered for many major events such as Ram Khatha by Morari Bapu in 1999, 2004 and 2009 as well as Bhagwat Khatha by Indira Betijiji in 2006 at the Wembley Exhibition Hall and Wembley Arena respectively. In 2007 and 2008, Meera Express retail branches opened on Streatfield Road and in Finchley respectively. Meera has always been keen on maintaining the Indian culture as the establishment of Meera Village in Queensbury Parade, which serves traditional Indian Thali among other things, demonstrates.
Paramjit Kang Paramjit Kang was born in Punjab, arrived in the UK at the age of 15, with no formal education or qualifications. Working first in a factory in Wolverhampton, he joined a family travel business in 1983 and founded Moresand Limited in 1986 with two staff in London. He now heads a major UK Travel Company with an annual turnover in excess of £46 million. Moresand's 90 staff in the company have arranged 120,000 passengers flights in the past 12 months and trade in all travel sectors including retail wholesale, leisure and business travel. Outside business, Paramjit works diligently for the Indian community and is the Vice President of the Indian Overseas Congress.
Asian Voice & Gujarat Samachar Asian Achievers Awards 2009
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