Twenty seven years ago, Anand Kapoor left an MBA course in India to take up a job on a treasury and forex desk at a Ugandan bank. After 18 months on the job, the entrepreneurial Kapoor considered his salary increase for the following year and concluded that being employed was not worth it. He quit the job to set up his own business, Midcom Group which dealt in forex. “I opened up a foreign exchange bureau because that was my experience; I used to manage risk and treasury. It made me a lot of money,” said Kapoor in a previous…
Billionaires: Anand Kapoor quit his job to set up a forex bureau. Now he owns Pearl Dairies that manufactures Lato Milk

Anand Kapoor took a gamble when he left his job to start a forex bureau. Today he is a household name in the dairy sector in Uganda


