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Role Players 2020


Cherag Ramakrishnan

Founder & Managing Director
Ceear Realty

Cherag Ramakrishnan founded CR Realty in 2013, an integrated platform that captures the entire value chain and investment cycle of real estate, from managing capital to land acquisition; to building and eventually managing the assets.

In past, he has been instrumental in building Equinox Realty (formerly known as Essar Realty) from scratch. He came on board as CEO of Equinox Realty in 2007. Under his energetic leadership Equinox Realty had created a portfolio of nearly 16 million sq. ft. of projects across India which are under different stages of development. These projects are located in states such as Maharashtra, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand and Gujarat.

An entrepreneur at heart, one of his prominent ventures was Kheladi.com which he co‐founded along with Geet Sethi in the year 2000, which was subsequently sold off to Satyam Infoway (SIFY).

Cherag is a Post Graduate in Business Management from the University of Mumbai and also has a certificate for the Global Advance Management Course from ISB Hyderabad & KELLOGG University Chicago. He is an eminent member of RICS (Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors).

Along with his professional success, Cherag has excelled in sports and also represented the country in two world championships in snooker. He has been amongst the top 8 snooker players in the country for over a decade.