S. P. Hinduja

[3] His successful businesses in his early career included the sale of food commodities (onions and potatoes) and iron ore from India to Iran.

[5] In 2012, the Group acquired the US firm Houghton International, the world's largest metal fluids manufacturer, for $1.045 billion, forming a consortium with the help of Ghouse Mohammed Asif, (Director of Private Equity of JP Morgan) and Henry Paulson, former United States Secretary of the Treasury and formerly of Goldman Sachs.

[18][19] On 19 May 1992, Dharam Hinduja, his youngest son,[20] died a few days after receiving 70% burns from self-immolation in a hotel room in Mauritius, as part of a suicide pact with his wife, who survived.

He had secretly married Ninotchka Sargon, a Roman Catholic Australian, at Chelsea Register Office in January that year.

[21][22] In 2001, Hinduja was involved in the UK's "cash-for-passports" scandal, where he donated money for the Millennium Dome while applying for British citizenship, leading to the resignation of Peter Mandelson.