Nawab Shaji Ul Mulk hails from the aristocratic family of Nawabs of Kurnool and is the founder and chairman of Mulk Holdings, a global business powerhouse with diversified interests in the manufacture of building facades, facade contracting, healthcare, plastics and sports assets. The company employs a workforce of more than 7,000 globally and has operations and manufacturing bases in the US, Europe, India, the UAE, Oman and Ghana.
He chairs the Mulk Foundation, the active CSR wing of the group, and is responsible for various philanthropic initiatives in UAE and India, offering free medical clinics, free libraries, support for disabled children and an orphan marriages programme.
The flagship product of the group is the manufacture and distribution of the A2 fire-rated aluminium composite panel under the brand name of Alubond A2. The brand has grown into the world’s largest aluminium composite panel manufacturer with an installed capacity of 25m square metres and installations in more than 100 countries.
The company under Mulk has won numerous national awards such as Sheikh Mohammed’s MRM Excellence Award in 2009 for the Largest Foreign Manufacturer in UAE, a Sharjah Excellence Award in 2011 for the Largest Manufacturer in Large Scale Industry, and an Ajman Chamber of Commerce Award as Ajman’s Largest Manufacturer in 2010 and Power Brand in GCC.
An avid cricket enthusiast, he is the only Indian member of the Emirates Cricket Board, headed by Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan. Mulk’s latest passion is the T10 cricket league, which has created history and become a global phenomenon.
He told Arabian Business earlier this year that his biggest coup would be taking the game to a market where it could resonate like no other: the United States.
“That’s the real market to believe in,” he says. “90-minute cricket and the US are a perfect fit. We’re already talking to the US Cricket Board. And if we get into the US, then the whole world will play ball.”
Mulk was also invited by the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan to be a part of a delegation of UAE businessmen to accompany the UAE leader during his visit to India.
Family comes first to Mulk and he is vocal about the harmony and peace it brings him. His wife Farha Mulk and son Adnan Ul Mulk, with fiancée Noorie, and daughter Nida Mulk and son-in-law Bilal Khan with grandchildren Hazza and Hassan and youngest daughter Sania Mulk, are his biggest treasures, he says.
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