This morning's newspaper brought news of another Indian acquisition of a Finnish facility, the largest Biotechnology facility in our region. The Indians have acquired 90% stake in the facility, the remaining 10% being with the City of Oulu.
Mentioned in the article was the Indian representative on the spot, Dr. Asheesh Kumar and the Chairman of the organisation based in London, Jaswant Shah. The company has deep roots in India in this sector. Asheesh did his masters and Doctorate from Roorkee University and has worked on several projects including ones in Mumbai and Bangalore. His wife, Indu, is an Analytical Chemist and is looking forward to spending some creative years in Finland.
As usual, Jacob rang and spoke with Asheesh soon after he read the news in the paper. They decided to have dinner together, along with me and Asheesh's wife, Indu. Jacob inquired and found both of them to be vegetarians. So he rang Michelle, the Indian owner of the Royal Garden, a Chinese Restaurant in Oulu, and asked her to organise the food.
We were pleasantly surprised to find their 3-year old son, Karthik, very clever and smart kid, also joining us for dinner. Michelle, although she does not normally stay in late, was on hand as our hostess along with Noushad, who is going to run the new Indian Restaurant adjacent to the Chinese Restaurant.
The meal was great and we spent a lot of time finding about each other Indu is a Punjabi, Asheesh is from Rajasthan and Karthik loves to eat meat!
Indu and Asheesh are a pleasant couple. They will find it easy to settle down in Finland.
We are on the lookout for an apartment and a car for them - which should not be difficult to organise.
We look forward to welcoming in Oulu Mr. Jaswant Shah, the 70 year old brain behind this venture, who resides in London.
Which company is it ?
ReplyDelete