Ravi Bhusari Managing Director & Co-Founder, DUPLAYS

Ravi co-founded DUPLAYS with his friend and now business partner in 2007. DUPLAYS builds sport communities in emerging markets and now has over registered 80,000 members, 20 full-time staff, operations in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Gurgaon, Doha, Amman, Riyadh and Jeddah. It has raised over $1.2M in investment from the region’s leading investors: MENA VI, Wamda, and Beco Capital.

Prior to starting DUPLAYS, Ravi was employed as a Development Advisory Manager in Colliers International’s real estate practice and as a consultant at Investment Boutique LLC, both based in Dubai. Prior to Dubai, he worked as a Project Engineer at Halliburton in Canada.

Ravi’s passion has always been for sports. He was awarded the Greater Montreal Athletic Association’s medal for Sportsmanship and was twice selected to Montreal’s All-Star Football team representing Lower Canada College, one of Canada’s most prestigious preparatory schools for boys.

Ravi holds a Bachelor of Applied Science in Mechanical Engineering from Queen’s University and an MBA from the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management. Ravi was selected as an Endeavor entrepreneur in 2013.