Dev Motwani
PRESIDENT & CEO, MERRIMAC VENTURES, FORT LAUDERDALE
Real estate firm Merrimac Ventures focuses primarily on prime resort, apartments and mixed-use development but also has investments in single-family rentals, condominiums, retail and office. Motwani is also founder and managing partner of Ramesh Properties, a distressed real estate investment fund focused on residential and commercial development sites throughout South Florida. He currently oversees nearly $750 million in development projects. He and his family created the R. Motwani Academy for Hospitality Management at Broward College.
| EDUCATION | Duke University (BS), Columbia University (MS) |
| SOMETHING SURPRISING | I’m a little bit introverted. |
| NEW HOBBY | I like to race cars on the track, mainly in Europe. |
| WORRIES ABOUT | Our national debt |
| SABBATICAL TOPIC | I would do my master’s in economic history at the London School of Business. |
| READING | The Bhagavad Gita |