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  • Sanjay S. Lalbhai

    Sanjay S. Lalbhai

    (Chairman and MD, Arvind Ltd)

    Sanjay Lalbhai is the Chairman and Managing Director of Arvind Ltd, a US$1.5 Billion Indian conglome....

    Sanjay Lalbhai is the Chairman and Managing Director of Arvind Ltd, a US$1.5 Billion Indian conglomerate. It was under his leadership that Arvind has become one of the largest manufacturers of woven textiles in India, and one of the largest denim fabric manufacturers in the world. He was also responsible for acquiring India’s first denim brand – Flying Machine – in 1981 and for guiding the process of building Arvind’s current impressive apparel brand portfolio. He also serves on the board of several premiers educational and research institutes. He is the President of Ahmedabad Education Society and Ahmedabad University, Chairman of Council of Administration of Ahmedabad Textile Industry’s Research Association and a member of the Council of Management of the Physical Research Laboratory. Mr. Lalbhai believes that addressing societal concerns and creating a long-lasting benefit to society is integral to the business strategy and a duty of every business leader. He provides strategic leadership to Arvind’s CSR initiatives as Trustee to SHARDA Trust ─ the CSR arm of the company. His date of appointment to the Board was the 17th March 1979 and his tenure as on 31st March 2023 is 44.07 Years
  • Punit Lalbhai

    (Vice-Chairman & Executive Director, Arvind Ltd)

    Punit Lalbhai is Vice-Chairman & Executive Director of Arvind Limited and leads Arvind's Advanced Ma....

    Punit Lalbhai is Vice-Chairman & Executive Director of Arvind Limited and leads Arvind's Advanced Materials, Engineering, and Agribusinesses. He also spearheads initiatives in sustainability, CSR, and Innovation at Arvind. He has an MBA from INSEAD and a Masters of Environmental Science from Yale University. His date of appointment to the Board was the 27th July 2012 and his tenure as on 31st March 2023 is 10.68 Years
  • Kulin

    Kulin Lalbhai

    (Executive Director, Arvind Ltd)

    Mr. Kulin Lalbhai is the Executive Director of Arvind Limited. He is driving new initiatives in the ....

    Mr. Kulin Lalbhai is the Executive Director of Arvind Limited. He is driving new initiatives in the consumer businesses of the group. He has been instrumental in setting up several new retail concepts and also spearheads the group’s digital initiatives. He also plays an active role in the overall Corporate Strategy. Kulin holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School, and a BSc in Electrical Engineering from the Stanford University. Prior to his current role, he has also been a management consultant at Mckinsey & Co. His date of appointment to the Board was the 27th July 2012 and his tenure as on 31st March 2023 is 10.68 Years
  • Jayesh Shah

    (Whole Time Director and Group CFO)

    Mr. Jayesh K. Shah is the Director and Chief Financial Officer of Arvind Limited, the flagship compa....

    Mr. Jayesh K. Shah is the Director and Chief Financial Officer of Arvind Limited, the flagship company of the Lalbhai Group, having an annual turnover of US.$ 1133 million. He was working with the group in its various business divisions since 1985 and in the year 2002, he became Director on the Board. Mr. Shah has distinguished academic career and has extensive administrative, financial regulatory and managerial expertise with his vast experience in the field. He started his career in Garment division of the Lalbhai Group, and then textile division and also looked after all the financial aspects of the group companies, viz. Textiles, branded garments, electronics, and telecom. He was also actively involved in merger, acquisition, expansion, diversification, project funding and Euro issue of the company. Being a dynamic professional, he has always been exploring new business opportunities and challenges. He successfully undertook a financial restructuring of the company during the period 2000 to 2002. He is also a director of Adi Finechem Limited and e-Infochips Limited. Mr. Shah is a member of the Governing Council of Ahmedabad Management Association. Mr. Shah is an Associate member of ICAI and a Commerce Graduate from Gujarat University. His date of appointment to the Board was the 20th November 2002 and his tenure as on 31st March 2023 is 20.37 Years
  • Dr. Bakul H. Dholakia

    (Independent Director)

    Dr. Bakul Dholakia is the former Director of IIM, Ahmedabad. He was also the Director General of In....

    Dr. Bakul Dholakia is the former Director of IIM, Ahmedabad. He was also the Director General of International Management Institute, Delhi. Prior to joining IMI, he was the Director of Adani Institute of Infrastructure Management & Gujarat Adani Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhuj. Dr. Dholakia is a Gold Medalist from Baroda University and holds a Doctorate in Economics. He has 47 years of professional experience including 33 years at IIM, Ahmedabad. During the course of his long tenure at IIM Ahmedabad, Dr. Dholakia occupied the Reserve Bank of India Chair from 1992 to 1999, served as the Dean from 1998 to 2001 and as the Director of the Institute from 2002 to 2007. He had received Best Professor Award for his teaching in Postgraduate Programme at IIMA. He has guided 20 Ph.D. students specializing in Economics, Finance, Business Policy and Public Systems at IIMA. He has been a consultant to various national and international organizations. In 2007, Dr. Dholakia was awarded Padma Shri by the Government of India in recognition of his distinguished services in the field of education. In 2008, Dr. Dholakia was conferred the coveted Bharat Asmita National Award for his contribution to management education and teaching by the Hon’ble Chief Justice of India. In 2017, Dr. Dholakia received the prestigious AIMA Award for Excellence in Academic Leadership for his outstanding contribution to management education in India. Dr. Dholakia has been a major guiding force behind the numerous initiatives and expansion of activities at IIMA contributing to its enhanced international image and global recognition. His achievements in institution building have been nationally and internationally acclaimed. Dr. Dholakia had been a Board Member of Reserve Bank of India Western Area Board from 1993 to 2001. In recognition of his efforts to improve the quality of management education, the Government of India had appointed Dr. Dholakia as the Chairman of the National Board of Accreditation for Technical Education in India (2005 to 2008). He has also served as External Director on the Board of several public & private sector companies. He has an extensive experience of conducting executive development programmes for top management of leading companies and also for senior bureaucrats in India and abroad. He has also served as a member of the Jury for various Corporate Excellence Awards and Selection Committees for CEOs. Over the last two decades, Dr. Dholakia has worked on numerous government committees, the recent ones being the Rangarajan Committee on Pricing and Taxation of Petroleum Products (2006) and the Expert Group on Pension Fund constituted by the Government of India (2009). The Competition Commission of India has appointed Dr. Bakul Dholakia as a Member of the Eminent Persons Advisory Group (EPAG), which serves as a think tank to give broad inputs and advice on larger issues impacting markets and competition. Dr. Dholakia is the author of 12 books, 28 monographs and more than 50 research papers published in professional journals in India and abroad. His date of appointment to the Board was the 21st July 2010 and his tenure as on 31st March 2023 is 12.70 Years
  • Ismet Khambatta

    (Independent Director)

    Ms. Ismet Khambatta is an architect, urban designer and furniture designer with over thirty years of....

    Ms. Ismet Khambatta is an architect, urban designer and furniture designer with over thirty years of professional experience in India and U.S.A. She is the founder and Managing Director of TDW Furniture Pvt. Ltd., a furniture design, manufacturing and Retail Company specializing in contemporary solid timber furniture, based in Ahmedabad. She also heads Façade Applications for Conservation of Energy (FACE), a Division of TDW that develops and manufactures exterior shading systems for buildings. Apart from her professional work, Ms. Ismet Khambatta contributes regularly as an external examiner or jury member on student design projects at the National Institute of Design (NID) Ahmedabad and at CEPT University, Ahmedabad. She has twice served as a jury member for the Indian Institute of Interior Designers’ annual design awards. Ms. Ismet Khambatta has Masters in Urban Design (M.U.D.) from Rice University, Houston, USA and Diploma in Architecture (Dip. Arch.) from School of Architecture, Center for Environmental Planning and Technology, Ahmedabad, India. She is a Registered Architect, Council of Architecture, India and a Member of the Indian Institute of Architects and the Institute of Urban Designers, India. She is a visiting faculty at School of Architecture, Center for Environmental Planning and Technology, Ahmedabad, India and was a visiting faculty at Basic Design I & II and Faculty of Design, CEPT University, Ahmedabad. Ms. Ismet Khambatta is on the board of various companies. She was also an Associate Architect, Partner and project Architect with various Institutes. Ms. Ismet Khambatta’s projects were published in “An Emancipated Place – Women & Architecture, 2000 Plus and Indian Architect & Builder. Ms. Ismet Khambatta’s paper on "The Meaning of Residence in Traditional Hindu Society" was first presented at an international conference on Traditional Dwellings and Settlements held at the University of California, Berkeley, in November 1988. This paper was published in the book of Bourdier, J. and Allsayad, N. (eds.) on Dwellings, Settlements and Tradition: Cross Cultural Perspectives, Lanham: University Press of America, 1989. Her date of appointment to the Board was the 01st August 2022 and her tenure as on 31st March 2023 is 0.66 Years
  • Dileep Choksi

    (Independent Director)

    Mr. Dileep C. Choksi is a Chartered Accountant by profession and has been in practice for over 40 ye....

    Mr. Dileep C. Choksi is a Chartered Accountant by profession and has been in practice for over 40 years. His areas of specialization include business succession, tax advisory and litigation, structuring of collaborations and joint ventures and corporate restructuring, turnaround and change management strategies. He also advises some of India’s largest business houses on various strategic matters, including family succession and on wills and trusts. Mr. Choksi was the former Joint Managing Partner of Deloitte in India till 2008, before the setting up C.C. Chokshi Advisors Pvt. Ltd. of which he is the Chief Mentor. Mr. Choksi is on the Board of well-known companies including as a member of their committees. Mr. Choksi is a member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP). He is also a trustee of the A.D. Shroff Memorial Trust and member of Council of Forum of Free Enterprise. Mr. Choksi has contributed various papers on Professional matters relating to Tax and Business reorganization. He has been a speaker at various seminars and conferences of professional interests organized by the Reserve Bank of India, the Institute of Chartered Accountants, Bombay Chartered Accountants’ Society, etc. Mr. Choksi contributed in the preparation of Kanga and Palkhivala’s The Law and Practice of Income Tax (Eighth Edition) – the last edition written by late Mr. N.A. Palkhivala and Mr. B.A. Palkhivala. His date of appointment to the Board was the 12th May 2014 and his tenure as on 31st March 2023 is 8.89 Years
  • Nilesh Shah

    (Independent Director)

    Nilesh Shah is Managing Director, Kotak Mahindra Asset Management Co. Ltd. He has over 25 years of e....

    Nilesh Shah is Managing Director, Kotak Mahindra Asset Management Co. Ltd. He has over 25 years of experience in capital markets, having managed funds across equity, fixed income securities and real estate for local and global investors. In his previous assignments, Mr. Shah has held leadership roles with Axis Capital, ICICI Prudential Asset Management, Franklin Templeton and ICICI Securities. He was the recipient of the inaugural Business Standard Fund Manager of the Year – Debt award in 2004. He also was part of the teams that received the best fund house of the year awards at Franklin Templeton as well as at ICICI Prudential. Mr. Shah is a gold medallist chartered accountant and a merit ranking cost accountant. His hobbies include reading and educating investors on financial planning. He has co-authored A Direct Take, a book on Financial Planning. His date of appointment to the Board was the 06th May 2015 and his tenure as on 31st March 2023 is 7.91 Years
  • Arpit K. Patel

    (Independent Director)

    Mr. Arpit Patel is a senior Chartered Accountant with broad experience in handling assignments rangi....

    Mr. Arpit Patel is a senior Chartered Accountant with broad experience in handling assignments ranging from statutory audit to corporate advisory involving interplay of various laws. He has contributed as a Partner at M/s Kantilal Patel & Co. and M/s S. R. Batliboi & Co. LLP (a member firm of EY Global). At present, he is a Partner at M/s Arpit Patel & Associates, Chartered Accountants. He has been appointed as a Technical Reviewer of Financial Statements by ICAI, empanelled as a Technical Reviewer with the Quality Review Board established by the Government of India under the Chartered Accountants Act, 1949 and has authored various books in his field.His date of appointment to the Board was the 17th May 2019 and his tenure as on 31st March 2023 is 3.87 Years.

  • Susheel Kaul

    (President & CEO - Textiles & Apparel)

    Mr. Kaul has been working with Arvind Ltd, since 1993. He joined Arvind group as a Management Traine....

    Mr. Kaul has been working with Arvind Ltd, since 1993. He joined Arvind group as a Management Trainee after completing Post Graduation in Textiles from The Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. His assignments included Quality Assurance and Product Development, Operations and Business Process Reengineering. In 2002, Susheel took over independent charge of Khakhis Business division. In 2007, he took over as the CEO of Shirting & Khakhis Businesses. He is presently the President & CEO - Textiles & Apparel, Arvind Limited.
  • Ashish Kumar

    (President & CEO - AMD & Essentials)

    An IIFT graduate with formal qualifications in Management, Mr. Kumar is an acknowledged domain exper....

    An IIFT graduate with formal qualifications in Management, Mr. Kumar is an acknowledged domain expert with a professional career spanning over 21 years mostly in Textiles & Apparel. Mr. Kumar has worked at all levels from the retail outlet to being the Chief Executive, on both sides of the business - Demand & Supply - in companies like DCM Shriram Industries, Kaybee Group and had incubated apparel start-up Integra Apparels. He has exhaustive leadership experience managing small & large businesses, facilitating major initiatives for a superior client experience as well as internal transformations.
  • Abhishek Tikmani

    (CEO, Arvind Envisol)

    Mr. Abhishek Tikmani is Chief Executive Officer of Arvind Envisol, a subsidiary of Arvind Limited. M....

    Mr. Abhishek Tikmani is Chief Executive Officer of Arvind Envisol, a subsidiary of Arvind Limited. Mr. Tikmani carries 15+ years of diversified leadership experience across multiple sectors ranging from automotive, pharmaceuticals, textiles, infrastructure, metals, insurance and banking. He has been associated with Arvind Limited since 2015. Before his current role at Arvind, he has been instrumental in leading the group corporate strategy and has been driving reformative and growth led initiatives across various business units of Arvind. Mr. Tikmani is an MBA (Finance and General Management) from XLRI Jamshedpur. He is also a gold medallist Company Secretary and a merit ranking Chartered Accountant. Before joining Arvind, he was Engagement Manager with McKinsey & Company, India office where he led large scale transformation programs for diverse clientele besides advising them on various strategic agendas.
  • Anurag Badal

    (CEO – Ankur Textiles, Division of Arvind Ltd)

    Mr. Anurag Badal, CEO Ankur textiles is associated with Arvind since 2019. Mr. Badal is a Textile Te....

    Mr. Anurag Badal, CEO Ankur textiles is associated with Arvind since 2019. Mr. Badal is a Textile Technology Graduate with a Master’s in Business Administration from DAVV Indore. He has strong leadership experience in managing supply chain of Textile business along with key role in Sales & Marketing. He has 22 years of vast experience in various leadership roles in Textile sector having worked with M/s Sintex Industries Ltd, J.K Cement Ltd (Textile Division) & E-land Inc
  • Dinesh Yadav

    (CEO, Solid Waste Management, Arvind Envisol)

    Dinesh Yadav is Chief Executive Officer, Solid Waste Management, Arvind Envisol Ltd., a subsidiary o....

    Dinesh Yadav is Chief Executive Officer, Solid Waste Management, Arvind Envisol Ltd., a subsidiary of Arvind. Mr. Yadav has over three decades of experience in energy and environment solutions and has been with Arvind since 1997. He has been instrumental in shaping the company’s strategy in energy and environment space. A mechanical engineer with a Master’s degree in Business Administration, Mr. Yadav has been chairing the energy and environment panel of Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) –Gujarat for more than a decade. He has worked on many initiatives and brought transformational changes in the field of energy and environment. These initiatives include power trading through open access and promotion of water recycling technologies and renewable energy.
  • Kamal Singal

    (MD & CEO, Arvind SmartSpaces Ltd)

    Mr. Kamal Singal is the Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer of the Arvind SmartSpaces Limite....

    Mr. Kamal Singal is the Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer of the Arvind SmartSpaces Limited (formerly Arvind Infrastructure Limited). He holds an Executive Post Graduate Diploma in Management (EPGM) from the Indian Institute of Management, Indore. He has been associated with the Lalbhai Group since 2001 in various capacities. Prior to joining the Lalbhai group, he worked for 9 years in different capacities with DCM Textiles Limited. He was elevated to head the real estate business of the Lalbhai Group in 2008. He is responsible for giving strategic direction to the real estate business and also identifying new business opportunities and to further expand the product portfolio of the real estate business.
  • Reginaldo D’Souza

    (CEO, Anup Engineering Limited)

    Mr. Reginaldo D’Souza is a 1997 batch Mechanical Engineer and a PGPX from Great Lakes Institute, C....

    Mr. Reginaldo D’Souza is a 1997 batch Mechanical Engineer and a PGPX from Great Lakes Institute, Chennai. In his career spanning 25 years, he has held multiple roles at Godrej and Boyce Manufacturing Company Limited. Mr. Reginaldo comes with strong experience around sales and marketing, operations and supply chain, information technology and business excellence for the process equipment division of Godrej. In his last role, he was leading the Sales and Marketing, Estimations and IT functions for the business. He has proven P&L experience and was responsible for leading the new business initiatives at Godrej.
  • Sailesh Chaturvedi

    Shailesh Chaturvedi

    (MD & CEO, Arvind Fashions)

    Shailesh Chaturvedi is Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Arvind Fashions Limited. Mr. C....

    Shailesh Chaturvedi is Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Arvind Fashions Limited. Mr. Chaturvedi has over 15 years’ experience in the branded apparel industry. He is an engineering graduate with a Master’s in Business Administration.
  • Vipen Malhotra

    (President, Arya Omnitalk Wireless Solutions Pvt.Ltd. President & CEO, Arvind Ltd)

    Vipen Malhotra is the President of Arya Omnitalk, a JV between the Lalbhai & J M Baxi Groups and the....

    Vipen Malhotra is the President of Arya Omnitalk, a JV between the Lalbhai & J M Baxi Groups and the President & CEO of Syntel Telecom, a division of Arvind Ltd. Vipen holds an Electronics Engineering & MBA degree from Chandigarh, Punjab University. He was appointed Vice President, Arvind Ltd. in 1991. The Telecom Operation under his leadership has now become a dominant player in the chosen business of Mini-EPABXs for the SOHO, small and medium business enterprise known to the customer as SYNTEL. Today Syntel is partnering NEC, Alcatel Lucent Enterprise, Cisco & Polycom for India & is now offering Unified Communication, Collaboration & Video Conferencing solutions for the SMBs and large enterprises. The newest business in Arya Omnitalk’s portfolio is Toll Automation & Highway Traffic Management Systems where the Company has established a track record of implementing Toll automation solution for over 300 traffic lanes.

Punit Lalbhai 3

(Executive Director)

Mr. Sanjay Lalbhai is the Chairman and Managing Director of Arvind Limited, a 1 Billion Dollar Indian conglomerate. It was under his leadership that Arvind has become one of the largest manufacturers of woven textiles in India and one of the largest denim fabric manufacturers in the world.

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