In an industry that has spent the past two decades consolidating into public companies and private equity portfolios, Pavan Agarwal has done something that is increasingly rare: he kept his company independent, kept it in the family, and kept building it on his own terms.
Sun West Mortgage Company was founded in 1980 by his father, Hari Agarwal, who had immigrated from India seven years earlier and built his way into California real estate from scratch. Pavan grew up inside the business, absorbed its operations at every level, and eventually took over as CEO in 2008. He has led it since.
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