It shouldn’t have surprised anyone when, in early 2016, Gunawan Jusuf published a book entitled Blue Gold that documented the relative scarcity and the high value of water as the most important and precious commodity in the world. Given his business background, Gunawan understands better than most how precious and valuable natural resources can be. Not only is water crucial to the lives of humans everywhere, it is also essential to his business model. Also, getting various interests to act together to solve a problem is what he does in business.

Gunawan Jusuf serves as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Sugar Group Companies. From that position, he oversees a varied collection of Indonesia-based companies that grow and refine sugar for the purposes of creating a variety of consumer products, many of which are enormously popular. In addition to a number of plantations and refineries throughout Indonesia, Sugar Group Companies operates from nearly a dozen offices located throughout Indonesia.

As the leader of the Sugar Group Companies, Gunawan Jusuf has helped to create enormous growth of Gulaku, which is a premium, commercial, refined sugar product that is a household name all over Indonesia, as well as a host of other products. The Sugar Group Companies is actually a collection of businesses that operate both independently, as well as part of the larger group in order to reach the goals of the overall company. It has been his proven ability to make sure that every employee, subsidiary and the various plants and offices all work together that marks Gunawan Jusuf’s greatest accomplishment as Sugar Group Companies’ leader.