From veggie tacos to healthcare: Dabur's Gaurav Burman opens up on his bets

When the pandemic hit, Gaurav Burman knew he had to move fast.

Burman, 48, runs his family office, which oversees about $1.5 billion in assets. The firm is the controlling shareholder of Dabur India Ltd., one of the nation’s largest consumer-goods companies, which Burman’s great-great-grandfather founded in 1884. The family is worth an estimated $9.8 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

“We introduced a number of Covid-related products,” he said in a phone interview from his home in the small Greek island of Antiparos, where he escaped to from London with his wife and two kids during the pandemic. “And we