[3] His investments are mainly in the banking, insurance, education, broadcasting, real estate, floriculture and hotels and resorts sectors.

[4][5][6][7][8] Ruparelia was born in Kabatoro, Kasese District in the Western Region of Uganda to an upper-middle-class Indian Gujarati family.

[2] His great-grandfather reached Mombasa, Kenya in 1897 from India and set up a trading store there before coming to Uganda in 1903.

Ruparelia fled to the United Kingdom with his parents in 1972 at the age of 16, when then Ugandan president Idi Amin expelled all Asians from Uganda.

[11] Ruparelia returned to Uganda in 1985, with US$25,000 earned from several casual jobs including working in supermarkets, factories, and butcheries.

[13][14] Sudhir started Ruparelia Group as a small trading firm in 1985 at 29 years of age with US$25,000 he returned with as savings accumulated from several jobs in the UK where his family had sought asylum after expulsion of Indians from Uganda.

[15][16][17] As a result of the 5-year civil war, the breweries of Uganda had been ruined which made it rewarding to import beer, with household goods, from Kenya.

Sudhir opened a wholesale store, in Kampala’s central business district, dealing in imported beer, salt and wine In December 1986 and struck a coup when he acquired the sole rights to distribute Kenya’s most premium beer brands in Uganda along with importing alcoholic beverages, Ruparelia also capitalized on importing commodities like salt, sugar and cigarettes from traders at the Mombasa ports.

It was then unexploited market in Uganda and although the sector then operated informally the demand was overwhelming and the business became an immediate success from which Sudhir was making daily profits of about $10,000.

Sudhir’s Crane Forex bureau became the first to be licensed in Uganda and within 6 months, he had started making more money than the commercial banks in the country .

[22]  The said banks were operating incompetently with arrogance as if they were doing customers a favour, on top of charging exorbitant interest rates yet there were limited choices.

[51][52] He owns the largest domestic residence in East Africa with 130,000 square metres (1,400,000 sq ft).

She is a member on Board of Trustees of the Ruparelia Foundation and her interest is wildlife and environment conservation, a passion she shares with her father.