KIRA is the world's largest grower of CVD laboratory grown diamonds, run by more than eight thousand people across Surat, Mumbai, Hong Kong, New York and Dubai. Our teams grow, cut, polish, grade, design and sell lab grown diamonds and lab grown diamond jewellery under one roof.

The KIRA team, leaders and 8,000+ artisans behind our lab grown diamonds in Surat
People

The people behind every grown diamond.

Machines grow the diamond. People do the rest. KIRA is 8,000+ of them, in five cities, doing every job it takes to get a stone from seed to your client.

One team, many hands.

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Growing, cutting, polishing, grading, designing and selling all happen inside KIRA. Nothing is farmed out. That takes a lot of different people, doing very different jobs, and treated the same way while they do them.

Highest Employment on Company Roll GJEPC · IGJA Award, 2025 to 2026
On the floor, at the desk

AI can't cut and polish a diamond like our artisans can.

Some of our people grow crystals and run reactors. Some read a stone under a loupe. Some sit at a bench with a wheel, others at a screen with a client. Research, manufacturing, grading, design, sales, service. White collar and blue collar, paid fairly, kept safe, given room to grow. That mix is the company.

craft one roof family together
KIRA cutting and polishing floor in Surat, hundreds of diamond artisans at workSurat · the polishing floor
Diamond polishers at the benchPolishing
Senior artisan reading a grown diamond through a loupeThe loupe
Technician at a CVD diamond growing reactorGrowing · CVD
Women on the KIRA service team at their desksService desk
Research team running diamond growth equipmentResearch
Setter working on a piece of diamond jewellerySetting
Grader inspecting a lab grown diamond under a microscopeGrading
The KIRA client desk at workClient desk
KIRA sales team member at his screenSales
Senior grader examining a grown diamondQuality
Design team at KIRADesign
Guiding hands

The people who steer it.

A family business, run by family and the people they trust.

Vallabhbhai Lakhani, founder of KIRA
Vallabhbhai Lakhani

The founder. His belief that a diamond belongs in every home is what started KIRA.

Mehul Vaghani, KIRA North America
Mehul Vaghani

Leads KIRA in the United States, close to the market and closer to the client.

Rajesh Lakhani, KIRA strategy
Rajesh Lakhani

Thirty years in the trade. Shapes KIRA's business, brand and growth.

Shanay Parekh, KIRA sales and innovation
Shanay Parekh

Drives sales across India, and keeps KIRA moving first on what is next.

Ashish Lakhani, KIRA manufacturing
Ashish Lakhani

Runs the Surat facility and its 8,000+ workforce, and holds the line on precision.

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