#49: Rizwan Sajan, Danube

Established in the year 1993, Danube Group was founded and cultivated under the leadership of Rizwan Sajan, who is the known to be the founder and chairman of the group. Starting off as a small trading firm, the company has moved from strength-to-strength, expanding its foothold in the region, and has established itself as one of the leading building materials company along with other branches under its vast umbrella. In 2015, the company recorded a turnover of AED5.14bn and has been growing ever since. The developer has a pipeline of six more projects under construction of which two are scheduled for delivery later this year while it intends to deliver two more in 2019 and the remaining two in 2020.