Karan Bilimoria
Karan Bilimoria is the founder of Cobra Beer and chairman of Cobra Beer Partnership Limited.
He became a crossbench member of the House of Lords on 24 July 2006.[1]
Career
Bilimoria founded Cobra Beer in 1989 and is currently the chairman of the Cobra Beer Partnership Limited and of Molson Coors Cobra India - both ventures with the global brewers Molson Coors.[2]
He is the founding chairman of the UK India Business Council; the chancellor of Birmingham University; and a founding member of the Prime Minister of India's Global Advisory Council.[3]
Support for the Conservatives
On the 1 April 2015 Bilimoria was one of the 103 business leaders who wrote to the telegraph praising the Conservative's economic policies and claiming a Labour government would 'threaten jobs and deter investment' in the UK.[4]
Education
- Chartered accountant, Ernst & Young
- Degree in Law, Cambridge University
- Cranfield School of Management
- London Business School
- Harvard Business School.[3]
Political donations
Recorded by the Electoral Commission:[5]
| Date | Name of donor | Amount | Donated to | Subsidiary (parties only) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30/09/2003 | Cobra Beer Ltd, 72 Fielding Rd | £1,392.00 | Conservative Party | Central Party |
| 15/05/2003 | Cobra Beer Ltd, 72 Fielding Rd | £384.00 | Conservative Party | Central Party |
| 15/05/2003 | Cobra Beer Ltd, 72 Fielding Rd | £7,480.00 | Conservative Party | Central Party |
Notes
- ↑ Parliament.UK Lord Bilimoria, accessed 1 April 2015.
- ↑ Cobra Beer About, accessed 1 April 2015.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Lord Bilimoria Biography, accessed 1 April 2015.
- ↑ Peter Dominiczak, 100 business chiefs: Labour threatens Britain's recovery, Telegraph, 1 April 2015.
- ↑ Electoral Commission, Donation Search, accessed 2 April 2015.
