 Onkar Singh Kanwar is the eldest son of Raunaq Singh (1922-2002), the co-founder of Apollo Tyres in 1976, and his first wife.After his undergraduate degree in business administration and industrial engineering, Onkar worked as a salesman in Riverside, California working on estimates for different government contracts for about six months.He then worked for Abbey Etna Machine Company in Perrysburg, Ohio on the shop floor.