Robert Viswanathan Chandran (31 May 1950 – 7 January 2008)[1] was an Indian-born Singaporean business executive, and the founder and CEO of the Chemoil company.
Following the death of his mother, Chandran left India in 1972 and lived in the Philippines where he attended the Asian Institute of Management and earned his MBA.
[citation needed] Chandran first made his fortune in California, investing in real estate in the San Francisco Bay Area.
In 1981, he was naturalized as a U.S. citizen, and in the same year, he founded Chemoil, a chemical and oil trading company specializing in ship-fueling.
[2][3] Chandran died on 7 January 2008 from injuries sustained when the helicopter in which he was travelling crashed in the Riau province of Indonesia.