JULY-AUGUST 2018 | ASIA ONE | 65his greatest legacy, “My dream is to have Damac towers
in gateway cities around the world. We have one in the
UK [Aykon London One] and I’d like to see another half a
dozen in other major hubs including Asia and America.”BUILDING A BETTER WORLD
One of his attempts towards giving back to the society is
his sponsorship of Dubai Future Foundation’s One Million
Arab Coders Initiative. He says he talked about this with
Bill Gates in Davos after speaking there on the Digital
Skills Imperative” and says he admires the Microsoft
founder’s commitment to stepping down as CEO to focus
100 percent on charity. “I wish I could do that. I’m not the
best in the world but I do my best.”
Following his passion has certainly worked out well for
Mr. Sajwani, the long journey from a trading shop in Deira
to the throne of the realty empire is really commendable.changing market scenario, as he puts it, “One of the
key things that makes me and makes the company
very different and has contributed heavily towards our
success is our ability to see the changes and react to the
changes very quickly and accept any realities of markets
and life and deal with it.” He further adds, “After the 2008
crisis, out of the dormant companies we were the only
survivor because we saw the crisis at the early stage and
immediately took severe actions to fix things.”
EXPANDING FRONTIERS
Mr. Sajwani is now looking “very aggressively” for
opportunities overseas, notably in Europe. Recently, his
company was chosen as the developer for Oman’s $1bn
Port Sultan Qaboos redevelopment, and will build a
resort in the Maldives. Throwing light on the grand vision
he has for his own company, and what would perhaps be