Prabhat K Bezboruah was born in Madras to Sharada Nair and Nil Kamal Bezboruah. While he spent his early childhood in Madras and Calcutta, he later moved to Jorhat, Assam, where he went to school and college, topping his School Boards, and then the University in his Pre Degree and Chemistry Honours courses. After a short stint as a trainee in J Thomas, renowned tea brokers, he joined IIM Calcutta, and after the two-year course, joined Bank of America, where he worked in Bombay, Madras, Calcutta and Manila. He left the Bank to pursue a PhD in Finance at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he taught Options and Futures to BBA students for a while. Returning to India in 1988, he got caught up in his family’s tea business which he started managing from around 1990. Under his leadership, the business has grown from a base of 5 lakh kilos, both organically and through acquisitions, and today produces around 12 million kilos of black tea. A tea planter himself – as managing director of Bokahola Tea Company in Assam – Bezboruah was instrumental in initiating a revamp of the old electronic auctioning system for the tea industry in India. During the course of his tea career, he has been Chairman of Assam Tea Planters’ Association for two terms, Director of Assam Tea Corporation Ltd., Economic Adviser to the Chief Minister, Assam, Member Board of Governors Indian Institute of Plantation Management for five terms, Member Tea Board for two terms, Member SN Menon Committee on Plantation Sector Reforms, Member Tea Advisory Committee under Commerce Ministry, Director Assam Power Distribution Company Ltd., Chairman Tea Research Association (Tocklai) for two terms, Chairman Tea Board India for two terms, and President National Tea Research Foundation. He is a member of several Clubs in Assam and Kolkata, and served as President of Jorhat Gymkhana Club. He is an avid reader, conservationist and animal lover, and also a golfer.