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Ashok Sewnarain: Business Personality of the Year 2021

Ashok Sewnarain: Business Personality of the Year 2021

Date: 2021-06-14

Ashok Sewnarain is the founder and chairman of International Bank Vaults (IBV), the first and most sophisticated, privately owned safe deposit vaults in South Africa, earlier this month he was awarded the Standard Bank Business Personality of the Year 2021.

Sewnarain subscribes to the philosophy that says one should persevere and be determined to pursue one's dreams in whatever business chosen. He says, "Business is full of risk and challenges that we must confront on a daily basis." He added that over the years, he had experienced many failures in his business career, but all of these had made him more knowledgeable and humbler. "Life is about dreaming big. Dream to make a million dollars, rather than a million rand. The most successful people in the world dream big. Ifs free. It has no boundaries and borders."