How much is Nav Bhatia worth?
| Net Worth: | $50 Million |
|---|---|
| Profession: | Businessman |
| Date of Birth: | July 9, 1951 (age 71) |
| Country: | Indian-born Canadian |
| Height: | 5 ft 4 in (1.65 m) |
About Nav Bhatia
Nav Bhatia is also known as Raptors Superfan. He’s an Indian-Canadian businessman, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and superfan of the Toronto Raptors basketball team. He rose to prominence in the 1990s when he established the Superfan Foundation as a way to connect and unite people that share the same love for basketball. Since 1995, he has attended every home game of the Toronto Raptors, which is what declared him a Superfan.
Bhatia is famous for his association with the Toronto Raptors. He was born on July 9, 1951, in New Delhi, India. During his time in his home country, Nav attended one of the government schools in Delhi, from which he graduated in the late 1960s. He then moved to Canada in the early 1970s as a way to escape from the violent persecution of Sikhs in India but later found himself in the United States.
After his immigration, he struggled to find a job for a couple of years. In his twenties, he attended a university in California (it’s still not disclosed which one) and eventually earned a degree in mechanical engineering. A few months after earning his engineering degree, he moved back to Canada where her began working as a mechanical engineer. Simultaneously with that, he was given a job as a salesman at a car dealership. Thanks to his impressive work as an engineer, he was later promoted to finance manager. Towards the late early 1990s, he found employment scarce in Canada because he was wearing a turban.
What made this businessman so rich are his diverse business ventures. Spending half a decade selling cars as a Hyundai dealership in the Rexhale suburb of Toronto really paid off for Bhatia who was able to achieve the record of 127 car sales in just 3 months. Thanks to his analytical and business skills, he was able to find his own Hyundai car dealership in Canada, which became one of the top-selling dealerships that enabled him to achieve an estimated net worth of $50 million.
Concurrently with his work as a car dealership owner, in the mid-1990s, Nav also found passion in basketball and became a fan of the team Toronto Raptors. Starting the year 1995, he began attending every home game of the Toronto team, which eventually earned him the monicker Raptors Superfan and boosted his popularity on a national level. For the past twenty years, this entrepreneur and philanthropist has also taken part in multiple events associated with the team.
For the past two decades, Bhatia has been a media and television sensation that has been in the spotlight on almost every game of the Toronto team. Besides the games, he has taken part in two films – Bollywood/Hollywood from 2002 and Beeba Boys from 2015. During the 2018-19 seasons, after his favorite team won the NBA Championship, he became the first fan to receive a championship ring. Most recently, Bhatia was honored by the Basketball Hall of Fame and became one of the first fans to be memorialized in the new super fan gallery.
Being a basketball fan and attending multiple games is what makes Nav Bhatia so successful. Ever since he became a fan of the Toronto Raptors, he has also transitioned into an entrepreneur and philanthropist. He has spent a lot of money on buying tickets for the games not just for himself (an estimated $300,000 annually) but for children that are avid fans of the team and can’t afford it. It is reported that he has spent a couple of millions in total for tickets of games and events associated with the Raptors.
Summing-Up
Nav Bhatia is one of the most popular owners of a car dealerships in North America. He’s the owner and founder of Missauga Hyundai and, with an estimated net worth of approximately $50 million, he is undoubtedly one of the wealthiest car dealers not just in Canada but all over the world.
In addition to his prosperous career as a businessman and entrepreneur, in the late years of the 20th century, he became a super fan of the Toronto Raptors, which helped him achieve international popularity.
