JIMMY MISTRY

The man who never stops! That’s Jimmy Mistry! Looking at his multimillion-dollar business empire, it’s hard to fathom that 50-year-old Jimmy Mistry, the indefatigable chairman and managing director of the Della Group, is a first-generation entrepreneur with his fingers in several business pies.

The award-winning, not-formally-trained designer, hotelier and developer dived into his first business, that of providing pest control services at the young age of 19 with just INR 20,000 in 1991, after selling off his motorbike. The man was sure he did not want to work for someone else. Instead of being a job seeker, he wanted to be a job creator. The feisty Jimmy Mistry started his hustle then with just two employees. Today, Della Group has a workforce of over 2000 employees spread across the world.

With his diverse businesses, Jimmy Mistry has created an impact and more importantly touched the lives of those working with the Della Group and even those outside of the group with the company’s relentless social impact activities.

Inspired by the unparalleled and humanitarian values of entrepreneurs such as JRD Tata and Ratan Tata, the social entrepreneur is forever on a mission to make a difference. At a time when several businesses have either shut shop or have scaled down operations Jimmy Mistry, with his...