The corporate governance mechanism at ANAND is overseen by the Deep C. Anand Foundation, the Group Supervisory Board of ANAND and a set of independent directors. The Deep C. Anand Foundation, formed on 11th August 2003, is rooted in the well-established and tested beliefs of ANAND and the ANAND Way of work. The Foundation has created a successful working model for executing succession planning and grooming new professional managers. It acts as a bridge between the promoter entity and the professional management. The Group Supervisory Board of ANAND, on the other hand, aims at achieving the core vision of ANAND, strengthening relations with overseas partners and safeguarding the interests of shareholders. Independent directors are the key integrators of the Group, offering their expertise in the management and mentorship of senior managers. The management structure of corporate governance at ANAND comprises the ANAND Executive Board, the ANAND Management Forum, ANAND Automotive Private Limited (the corporate entity) and the respective company boards and managements.
Mr. Mahendra K. Goyal, Group President, is one of the two Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the ANAND Group. He is a member of the ANAND Executive Board. Mr Goyal is also the Managing Director of Dana Anand India, a joint venture between ANAND and Dana Incorporated, USA. He is directly responsible and accountable to the ANAND Executive Board for the following Group companies: HL Mando Anand India, a joint venture with Mando Corporation, part of the HL Group, Republic of Korea; Dana Anand India; ANAND I-Power; Haldex ANAND India; and MAHLE ANAND Filter Systems and MAHLE ANAND Thermal Systems, ANAND’s joint venture companies with MAHLE GmbH, Germany.
He is the chairman of HL Anand Automotive Parts Pvt. Ltd., which is a joint venture between HL Holdings Corporation and ANAND. In addition, he is responsible and accountable for the Group’s Aftermarket and Human Resource. He is also a member of the ANAND Management Forum, which oversees operational issues for the Group.
Mahendra is a chartered accountant, company secretary, and cost accountant with an Advanced Management Programme Certificate from Oxford University. He has dedicatedly served ANAND for over 28 years and handled positions of increasing responsibility in the areas of general management/operations, finance, treasury, corporate governance, board, and legal matters, among others. From his first assignment in 1995 with ANAND as Assistant Manager –Internal Audit, Mahendra has risen up the ranks swiftly to his position today. Mr. Goyal became Group Co-COO in 2021, in addition to serving as Group CFO, and played a key role in enhancing the financial systems, compliance, corporate governance, and relationships with joint venture partners.
Mr. Deepak Chopra, Group CEO, heads the executive management structure at ANAND. A trustee of the Deep C Anand Foundation, Deepak chairs the ANAND Executive Committee and ANAND Management Committee besides overseeing the entire operations for the Group and key corporate functions including human resources, finance, corporate strategy and stakeholder relationships.
Deepak is also the Executive Chairman of Spicer India Private Limited, a prestigious JV with Dana Holding Corporation of USA. He also chairs the Boards of Mando Automotive India Private Limited and Takata India Private Limited and a few other ANAND companies. A veteran with >40 years of leadership experience at ANAND, Deepak is a chartered accountant, company secretary and an alumnus of the advanced management course, Oxford University, UK. He began his career at ANAND in 1976 and has held various positions of increasing responsibility over the years.
After heading the Finance function at Purolator India, ANAND corporate headquarters, Perfect Circle Victor and Gabriel India, Deepak took on the responsibility of handling new projects and operations and successfully established the large sized and thick walled bearings project in 1993 with a German partner BHW, then part of Federal Mogul Corporation of USA. He was subsequently appointed COO of Purolator India (the current MAHLE ANAND Filter Systems) between 1994 and 1996, after which he moved to Chennai to establish and head ANAND’s operations in South India with three new joint ventures: Mando India for brake systems with Mando of Korea, Arvin Exhaust India (currently Faurecia Emission Control Technologies India) with Arvin Meritor, USA originally and now with Faurecia, France and Valeo Friction Materials India with Valeo, France. In 2002, Deepak took over the role of Group CFO at ANAND corporate headquarters where besides overseeing finance, treasury and legal functions of the Group, he was also responsible for mergers and acquisitions and overseas partner relationships. From 2006, Deepak was also assigned the additional responsibility as Group President to oversee the operations of five ANAND companies before taking over as Group CEO in September 2009.
Mr. Sumit Bhatnagar is President and Head – Group Human Resource Development and Group Infrastructure at ANAND. He has been associated with ANAND for almost two decades now.
Prior to taking over the current responsibility, Sumit was COO of Passenger Car Business Unit (PCBU) for Gabriel India. He led Gabriel (PCBU) towards successfully transforming its performance.
Sumit had joined MAHLE ANAND Thermal Systems in 1999 as Senior Engineer – Manufacturing. At MAHLE ANAND Thermal Systems, he successfully managed roles in Customer care, business development, supply chain, production and logistics and established the Visco fan drive business in India. He subsequently moved to ACYM, as Business Head in 2008 and sustained ACYM as preferred vendor for its customers through consistent performance improvement. In 2011, he joined Gabriel India initially as Plant Head, Khandsa and later became the COO of PCBU.
Sumit has a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Production and has completed Executive Post-Graduate Diploma in Business Management from IIM Kozhikode. He has also completed Advanced Management Program from MIT Sloan, USA.”
Mr. Sunil Kaul,Group President – Technology, Innovation & Automation, ANAND, is also a member of the ANAND Executive Committee, responsible for directing all policy matters at ANAND. He is also a member of the ANAND Management Committee which oversees operational issues for the Group.
Sunil is also responsible for overseeing operations for MAHLE ANAND Thermal Systems Private Limited, MAHLE ANAND Filter Systems Private Limited, Haldex India Limited, ANAND CY Myutec Automotive Private Limited and CY Myutec ANAND Private Limited as a member of the ANAND Executive Committee. Additionally, he is the chairman of the boards of Haldex India Limited, ANAND CY Myutec Automotive Private Limited and CY Myutec ANAND Private Limited and is a member on the Board of Takata India.
As Group President – Technology, Innovation and Automation, Sunil is responsible to direct and steer the technological prowess and innovation focus of the Group as a whole, ensuring ANAND is aligned and adequately equipped to face the challenges of the future. An extremely able and dynamic leader, Sunil has been an integral member of ANAND for the past 27 years and has held various positions of increasing responsibility through his tenure.
Sunil holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering and a Certificate in Management Education Networking from the Stuttgart Institute of Management & Technology. Sunil joined ANAND in 1985 at Purolator India. He subsequently moved to MAHLE ANAND Thermal Systems in 1996, right at the inception of the Joint Venture. Between 1999 and 2004, Sunil spent five years on deputation to Mahle Behr, Germany, where he spent the initial two years being actively involved in the Product and Process engineering of EGR technology. Subsequently, he spent the next three years heading production at Pforzheim, besides also being responsible for the transfer of the oldest line (condensers and evaporators) from Pforzheim to what was back the plant in East Germany. Sunil returned to India in 2004 to re-join MAHLE ANAND Thermal Systems, and was subsequently appointed managing director from 2009 till 2016, where he undertook several challenging projects.
MR. MANOJ KOLHATKAR
Group President and Co-Chief Operating Officer
Manoj Kolhatkar, Group President, is one of the two Co-Chief Operating Officers of the Group, as well as a member of the ANAND Executive Board. He is also the Managing Director of the Group’s flagship, Gabriel India. Manoj is directly responsible and accountable to the ANAND Executive Board for the following Group companies: Gabriel India; Faurecia Clean Mobility—a joint venture between ANAND and Faurecia Clean Mobility France; Valeo Friction Materials India—ANAND’s joint venture with Valeo France; both the joint venture companies with CY Myutec, Korea, namely ANAND CY Myutec Automotive and CY Myutec ANAND; as well as Anchemco and Ansysco and the newly formed sunroof joint venture Inalfa Gabriel Sunroof Systems.
In addition, he is Head, Business Development and Corporate Materials for the Group.
He is also a member of the ANAND Management Forum, which oversees operational issues for the Group.
Additionally, he is an Executive Committee Member of the Automotive Component Manufacturers Association of India (ACMA) and serves on the Governing Council of the Automotive Skills Development Council (ASDC).
Prior to joining ANAND in 2011, Manoj was with the TATA Group for 22 years and has more than three decades of experience in the automotive industry.
He first joined Tata Motors in July 1989 as a Graduate Engineer Trainee, and then in July 2006 moved to Tata Auto Components (TACO) as the CEO for the Interiors & Plastics Division. In 2009, he became the CEO of a TACO JV, Tata Yazaki, before coming to ANAND in May 2011.
Mr. Kolhatkar is a Mechanical Engineering graduate from REC Nagpur (now VNIT) and has a diploma in Business Management from the University of Pune.
Mr. Jagdish Kumar is Group President and Chief Financial Officer of ANAND Group. He is responsible for financial planning and controls, legal and taxation matters, treasury and risk management, operating performance management, governance and Board matters, M&A and joint venture relationships at the Group-level. Additionally, he is responsible for Henkel ANAND India Limited, Ansysco ANAND LLP and Anchemco ANAND LLP. He is also a member of the ANAND Management Committee.
He joined ANAND Group in September, 2015. Prior to joining ANAND, Jagdish was the regional director, strategy and M&A, Asia Pacific for DuPont. He joined DuPont in 1998 as director – finance & planning of the South Asian operations and chief financial officer for the Asia-Pacific region for automotive paints business. Subsequently, he moved on to lead multiple businesses in South Asia and the Asia-Pacific in the printing and packaging markets for DuPont including a five-year stint in Shanghai as Asia-Pacific leader of the packaging graphics business for DuPont.
Prior to joining DuPont, Jagdish worked for Tata Consultancy Services and Ballarpur Industries Limited based in Chennai and Delhi as head of finance and M&A. He has a vast experience in leadership and board management roles across the Asia-Pacific in a career spanning over 27 years. Jagdish did his B.Com (Honours) from Shri Ram College of Commerce, University of Delhi and PGDM from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore with a specialisation in finance and marketing.
Mr. S. Sarathi is Joint Managing Director, Mando Automotive India and President, Group Chief Internal Auditor, ANAND. He is a qualified chartered accountant, cost accountant and company secretary. He has also successfully completed an advanced management course from Oxford University, UK. He joined ANAND in 1997 as Financial Controller for ANAND’s emission products JV, Faurecia Emission Control Technologies India (formerly Arvin Exhaust India). He worked as Financial Controller and Company Secretary of Gabriel India Limited from 2001 to 2005 and contributed to the merger of Stallion Shox with Gabriel.
In 2005, he moved to operations from finance function and headed Faurecia Emission Control Technologies India (formerly Arvin Exhaust India) operations as its Chief Operating Officer. Sarathi also did a short one-year stint as Vice President – Manufacturing with Spicer India Private Limited, ANAND’s JV with Dana, USA, before becoming Chief Internal Auditor of ANAND in 2010. Since then, he has been working to strengthen the systems and internal controls at ANAND companies and has succeeded in transforming the internal audit process and built a strong team there. Sarathi is also on the Board of ANAND JVs Takata India and Valeo Friction Materials India. He is a member of ANAND Ethics Committee and plays a key role in sensitising employees about the importance of ethical behaviour.
Mr. M.S. Shankar, heads the corporate function of Technology & Innovation at ANAND. He drives the process of unblocking, enabling, multiplying and inspiring COOs, Plant Heads, Managers, and Engineers to achieve significant breakthrough results, by activating and embedding a process of systematic out-of-box thinking and breakthrough implementation.
As a real change leader, he was part of the visionary task force at ANAND to embed the culture of lean manufacturing through the ANAND Heijunka Production System. As the COO of Victor Gaskets India, he led the company to become an asbestos free company by evolving cutting edge technology for critical engine sealing products.
A Mechanical Engineer from The College of Engineering Pune, Fellow of Cost & Works Accountants of India, and graduate of Visionary Leader For Manufacturing, he has been skilled in Erehwon’s Orbit-shifting Leadership Practice.
With 28 years of experience at ANAND, across the gamut of functions ranging from Manufacturing, R&D, Finance, deputation as Product Engineer International at Victor Reinz DANA USA, he has moulded his thinking from synthesised learnings during his various assignments, starting with a 5 year stint at TELCO (now Tata Motors).
Winning the Golden Peacock Award for Innovation Management at the 14th London Global Convention 2014, has given him an additional energy to becoming an evangelist for deploying systematic Innovation Methodologies.
Mr. Rajeev Gera is Group President – Group Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) at ANAND. Prior to this he was Chief Operating Officer of ANAND CY Myutec Automotive.
Rajeev brings with him a rich experience spanning 27 years within automotive sector in India and Europe. He has extensive experience across key functions including industrial/process engineering, supply chain management, sourcing and business development functions. Prior to joining ANAND, he worked with Hero Honda Motors, Delphi Chassis and KYB Spain. Rajeev joined ANAND as Supply Chain Head for Gabriel India in 2008. He became Chief Operating Officer of ANAND CY Myutec Automotive (Formerly known as Chang Yun India) in 2012. He is also a Director on the Board of Henkel ANAND India. Rajeev played a significant role in widening the customer base of ACYM by adding six major OEM customers. He was also responsible for putting up the steel synchroniser rings manufacturing project for commercial vehicle segment in ACYM. Under his leadership, ACYM was ranked a “Great Place to Work” in both 2017 and 2018.
Rajeev holds a B. Tech degree in Mechanical Engineering from NIT Durgapur, West Bengal. He has also completed the ‘Visionary Leaders for Manufacturing’ (VLFM) programme and the prestigious ‘Oxford Advanced Management and Leadership Programme’ (OAMLP) from the University of Oxford.
Mr. Jaisal Singh is a Director of the Group Supervisory Board, the apex governing body of the ANAND Group. He sits on the Finance, Audit & Risk Committee as well as the Personnel Committee of the Board. He is the Vice Chairman of the ANAND Executive Board and the Chairman of the group’s Strategic Growth Council, including Mergers & Acquisitions. He is actively involved in overseeing key areas like governance, compliance and JV partner relationships.
Jaisal is also the Co- Chairman of the group’s largest company, Mando Automotive India (with a turnover of approx. USD 500 million). It is a joint venture between ANAND Group and Mando Corporation, part of the Halla Group, Republic of Korea.
Jaisal is an Author, Conservationist and Entrepreneur. He is the Founder and Chairman of SUJÁN, an experiential, responsible, positive impact hotel group with three award winning tented camps in India, which have consistently been rated among the best in the world for the past two decades.
Jaisal is also Vice-President and Member of the Executive Committee, global Board of Directors of Relais & Chateaux – the world’s most prestigious association of 580 independent hotels and restaurants across 67 countries covering 5 continents with 380 Michelin stars at last count. He has the distinction of being the youngest person, and the only Indian ever to be elected to that position and has been successfully running that position for the last 9 years. He also takes a keen interest in the philanthropic wing of his family enterprise – The SNS Foundation. He was recently appointed Patron of the Conscious Travel Foundation in the United Kingdom.
Jaisal is a Member of The Government of Rajasthan’s Standing Committee for Wildlife, and also the State Board for Wildlife, chaired by the Chief Minister of Rajasthan. He is also a member of the Expert Committee on Tigers constituted by the Government of Rajasthan. In addition, he was also nominated as Special Invitee for the Punjab State Board for Wildlife, chaired by the Chief Minister of Punjab. He is a member of the Executive Board of The Ranthambhore Foundation, a conservation NGO that has worked to conserve the Ranthambhore Tiger Reserve, as well as wildlife across India since 1988.
Jaisal is a Member of the Managing Committee of The Modern School, Barakhamba Road, New Delhi, one of the country’s leading educational institutions. He is the Chairman of the Confederation of Indian Industry’s (CII) Northern Region Committee on Tourism & Hospitality since 2022. He is also a member of CII National Committee on Tourism & Hospitality since 2022.
Jaisal is the author of four books: ‘Polo in India’ – a definitive history of the sport in India published by Roli Books, India and New Holland, UK; ‘Ranthambhore – The Tiger’s Realm’ along with Anjali Singh and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra; and JAWAI – Land of the Leopard’ along with Anjali Singh; The Magical Mara, a family safari, Published by SUJÁN Art.
He is a student of military history and his articles on the subject have been published in India’s mainstream newspapers like the Business Standard.
Jaisal is Chairman, Rules Committee, Indian Polo Association, the sport’s national governing body for 2020-21 and 2021-22. He is a keen Polo player who has played up to a handicap of +2 and has done so across the world. He was a member of the legendary ‘Jodhpur’ team from 1994 to 2005. He now fields his own team, the SUJÁN Indian Tigers which has already won a tournament at the World Cup level, and has seen success in both India as well as the United Kingdom in the past two years.
Mr. Mahendra K. Goyal, Group President, is one of the two Co-Chief Operating Officers of the ANAND Group. He is a member of the ANAND Executive Board. Mr Goyal is also the Managing Director of Dana Anand India, a joint venture between ANAND and Dana Incorporated, USA. He is directly responsible and accountable to the ANAND Executive Board for the following Group companies: HL Mando Anand India, a joint venture with Mando Corporation, part of the HL Group, Republic of Korea; Dana Anand India; ANAND I-Power; Haldex ANAND India; and MAHLE ANAND Filter Systems and MAHLE ANAND Thermal Systems, ANAND’s joint venture companies with MAHLE GmbH, Germany.
He is the chairman of HL Anand Automotive Parts Pvt. Ltd., which is a joint venture between HL Holdings Corporation and ANAND. In addition, he is responsible and accountable for the Group’s Aftermarket and Human Resource. He is also a member of the ANAND Management Forum, which oversees operational issues for the Group.
Mahendra is a chartered accountant, company secretary, and cost accountant with an Advanced Management Programme Certificate from Oxford University.He has dedicatedly served ANAND for over 28 years and handled positions of increasing responsibility in the areas of general management/operations, finance, treasury, corporate governance, board, and legal matters, among others. From his first assignment in 1995 with ANAND as Assistant Manager –Internal Audit, Mahendra has risen up the ranks swiftly to his position today. Mr. Goyal became Group Co-COO in 2021, in addition to serving as Group CFO, and played a key role in enhancing the financial systems, compliance, corporate governance, and relationships with joint venture partners.
Mr. Lorenzo Piaget is a Director of the Group Supervisory Board (GSB). He sits on the Finance, Audit & Risk Committee of the GSB.
Lorenzo is the Founding partner of Piaget & Cie, Lausanne, a Swiss Family Office.
He serves as a director on the boards of several family groups active in consumer staples retail, luxury brand distribution, the automotive industry whose total turnover exceed 10 billion USD. For two decades, he has also been a non-executive board member of several regulated financial institutions, including mutual funds and banks in Switzerland and Luxembourg.
He started his career as a lawyer for the Federal Revenue Service and the State Revenue Service in Switzerland. He has a been a lecturer in Tax Law at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland). He has published multiple articles focusing on e-commerce taxation and real estate taxation. Lorenzo Piaget holds a Master of Law (University of Geneva).
Manoj Kolhatkar, Group President, is one of the two Co-Chief Operating Officers of the Group, as well as a member of the ANAND Executive Board. He is also the Managing Director of the Group’s flagship, Gabriel India. Manoj is directly responsible and accountable to the ANAND Executive Board for the following Group companies: Gabriel India; Faurecia Clean Mobility—a joint venture between ANAND and Faurecia Clean Mobility France; Valeo Friction Materials India—ANAND’s joint venture with Valeo France; both the joint venture companies with CY Myutec, Korea, namely ANAND CY Myutec Automotive and CY Myutec ANAND; as well as Anchemco and Ansysco and the newly formed sunroof joint venture Inalfa Gabriel Sunroof Systems.
In addition, he is Head, Business Development and Corporate Materials for the Group. He is also a member of the ANAND Management Forum, which oversees operational issues forthe Group.
Additionally, he is an Executive Committee Member of the Automotive Component Manufacturers Association of India (ACMA) and serves on the Governing Council of the Automotive Skills Development Council (ASDC). Prior to joining ANAND in 2011, Manoj was with the TATA Group for 22 years and has more than three decades of experience in the automotive industry.
He first joined Tata Motors in July 1989 as a Graduate Engineer Trainee, and then in July 2006 moved to Tata Auto Components(TACO) as the CEO for the Interiors & Plastics Division. In 2009, he became the CEO of a TACO JV, Tata Yazaki, before coming to ANAND in May 2011.
Mr. Kolhatkar is a Mechanical Engineering graduate from REC Nagpur (now VNIT) and has a diploma in Business Management from the University of Pune.
Mr. Rohit Arora is a Director of the Group Supervisory Board (GSB). He is the Chairman of the Finance, Audit & Risk Committee, and a Member of the Personnel Committee of the GSB.
Rohit has long standing career in Business Process Management Services, Investment Banking and Management Consulting. Rohit has cross functional experience in dealing with large multinational corporations including several Fortune 500 corporations.
Rohit is the Founder-Chairman of Silverskills Private Limited, a company that provides BPM solutions to companies in the Financial and Healthcare Services sectors across the globe. Earlier, Rohit was the Managing Director and Country Head of AIA Capital India Private Limited, (a member company of AIG). He began his career as a Management Consultant with A.F. Ferguson & Co., the then correspondents of KPMG in India.
Rohit is a Fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and serves as an independent non-executive director on the Boards of Indian and Multinational Companies.
Mr. Jagdish Kumar, Group President, is the Group’s Chief Financial Officer and a member of the ANAND Executive Board. In addition to the Group Finance function, Group Legal & Secretariat, Group Corporate Strategy & Planning, as well as Group IT, report to Mr. Kumar.
Jagdish is also a Director on the Board of Joyson ANAND Abhishek Safety Systems, a joint venture with Joyson Safety Systems, USA; he is responsible and accountable to the ANAND Executive Board for this company. Further, he is a member of the ANAND Management Forum, which oversees the operational aspects of the Group.
He joined the ANAND Group in September, 2015.
Before that, Jagdish was the Regional Director, Strategy and M&A, Asia Pacific, for DuPont. He joined DuPont in 1998 as Director, Finance & Planning, of its South Asian operations and was the Chief Financial Officer for the Asia-Pacific region for the automotive paints business. Subsequently, he moved on to lead multiple businesses in South Asia and the Asia-Pacific in the Printing and Packaging markets for DuPont, including a five-year stint in Shanghai as the Asia-Pacific leader of the Packaging Graphics business.
Prior to joining DuPont, Jagdish worked for Tata Consultancy Services. He was also head of Finance and M&A for Ballarpur Industries Limited, based in Delhi. He has vast experience in leadership and board management roles across the Asia-Pacific in a career spanning over 35 years.
Jagdish did his B. Com (Honours) from Shri Ram College of Commerce, University of Delhi, and a PGDM from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, with a specialisation in finance and marketing.
Sunil Kaul, Group President, is the Group’s Chief Technology Officer, and a member of the ANAND Executive Board. He is the Chairman of the Board of Haldex ANAND India, a joint venture between ANAND and Haldex AB, Sweden, for which he will be responsible and accountable to the ANAND Executive Board.
Mr. Kaul is also be responsible for the Excellence-in-Manufacturing, Innovation, Quality Culture, and Sustainability initiatives. He is also responsible for the Group’s Emerging Automotive Technology and start-ups in Multi Material Composites with FAR-UK; Transmissions with MAZARO, Belgium and Joint Venture with Mando Corporation for Two and Three Wheeler Electric Vehicle components.
He is also a member of the ANAND Management Forum which oversees operational issues for the Group. He is also part of the Group’s Strategic Growth Council, including Mergers & Acquisitions.
As Group President and Chief Technology Officer, Sunil is responsible to direct and steer the technological prowess and innovation focus of the Group as a whole, ensuring ANAND is aligned and adequately equipped to face the challenges of the future. An extremely able and dynamic leader, Sunil has been an integral member of ANAND for the past 35 years and has held various positions of increasing responsibility through his tenure.
Sunil holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering and a Certificate in Management Education Networking from the Stuttgart Institute of Management & Technology. Sunil joined ANAND in 1985 at Purolator India. He subsequently moved to MAHLE ANAND Thermal Systems in 1996, right at the inception of the Joint Venture. Between 1999 and 2004, Sunil spent five years on deputation to Mahle Behr, Germany, where he spent the initial two years being actively involved in the Product and Process engineering of EGR technology. Subsequently, he spent the next three years heading production at Pforzheim, besides also being responsible for the transfer of the oldest line (condensers and evaporators) from Pforzheim to what was back the plant in East Germany. Sunil returned to India in 2004 to re-join MAHLE ANAND Thermal Systems, and was subsequently appointed managing director from 2009 till 2016, where he undertook several challenging projects.
Mr. S. Sarathi is the Group President and Chief Assurance Officer of the ANAND Group. He is also a member of the ANAND Executive Board. Further, he is the Joint Managing Director of HL Mando ANAND India Private Limited (formerly known as Mando Automotive India Private Limited), a joint venture between ANAND and Mando Corporation, part of the HL Group, Republic of Korea.
As part of the matrix structure within the ANAND Executive Board, he is responsible for three Group companies: Faurecia Emissions Control Technologies India Private Limited; Inalfa Gabriel Sunroof Systems Private Limited; and Mahle ANAND Thermal Systems Private Limited. He also supports the respective Group Co-Chief Operating Officer in charge of these companies.
He is also a member of the ANAND Management Forum, which oversees operational issues for the Group.
Sarathi is a qualified Chartered Accountant, Cost Accountant, and Company Secretary, and has successfully completed an advanced management course at Oxford University, UK.
He joined ANAND in 1997 as Financial Controller for ANAND’s emission products JV, Faurecia Emission Control Technologies India (formerly Arvin Exhaust India). Sarathi then worked as Financial Controller and Company Secretary of Gabriel India Limited from2001 to 2005 and contributed to the merger of Stallion Shox with Gabriel.
In 2005, he moved from the finance function at Gabriel to operations at Faurecia Emission Control Technologies India as its Chief Operating Officer. He then shifted to Spicer India Private Limited, ANAND’s JV with Dana, USA, in 2008, where he was made incharge of Drive Shaft Operations as Vice President till 2010, before becoming Chief Internal Auditor of ANAND.
Since then, he has been working at ANAND to strengthen the systems and internal controls at ANAND companies and has succeeded in transforming the internal audit processes and built a strong audit team.
Further, Sarathi is a member of the ANAND Ethics Committee and plays a key role in sensitising employees on the importance of ethical behavior. He is one of the Trustees
of the SNS Foundation, the CSR wing of the Group.
Additionally, he is also a member of other important boards and governing bodies such as the Board of the Tamil Nadu Skill Development Corporation; the Body of Governors of Dr. Dharmabal Government Polytechnic, Tamil Nadu; the Governing Body of Centre of Excellence for Road Safety at Indian Institute of Technology, Madras; and a Member of the Manufacturing Committee of Madras Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
Mr. Jean-Louis Chaussade has been appointed as a Director of the GSB with effect from January 2021.
Jean-Louis is currently the Chairman of JLCH Conseil, Paris. He has been associated with the SUEZ Group for over four decades holding positions of increasing responsibility spanning various geographies of the world, and he left the group as the Chairman of its Board in May 2020.
Jean-Louis holds key positions on Boards of various organisations and bodies including Vice-Chairman of the France-China Committee, Vice Chairman of Seoul International Business Advisory Council (SIBAC), Chairman of the Strategic Committee for Waste Processing and Recovery (CSF) and Special Advisor of Accuracy, a large French consulting firm.
Jean-Louis holds the cause of sustainability and circular economy very close to his heart, and his tenure has seen SUEZ become a leader of environmental transformation.
He holds a degree in Civil Engineering from ESTP Paris and a master’s degree in Economics from Sorbonne University, France. He is also a graduate of the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (The Paris Institute of Political Studies) and the Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management Program.
ANAND’s association with Jean-Louis goes back to when ANAND had a joint venture with Degrémont, France.
Mr. Jaisal Singh is a Director of the Group Supervisory Board, the apex governing body of the ANAND Group. He sits on the Finance, Audit & Risk Committee as well as the Personnel Committee of the Board. He is the Vice Chairman of the ANAND Executive Board and the Chairman of the group’s Strategic Growth Council, including Mergers & Acquisitions. He is actively involved in overseeing key areas like governance, compliance and JV partner relationships.
Jaisal is also the Co- Chairman of the group’s largest company, Mando Automotive India (with a turnover of approx. USD 500 million). It is a joint venture between ANAND Group and Mando Corporation, part of the Halla Group, Republic of Korea.
Jaisal is an Author, Conservationist and Entrepreneur. He is the Founder and Chairman of SUJÁN, an experiential, responsible, positive impact hotel group with three award winning tented camps in India, which have consistently been rated among the best in the world for the past two decades.
Jaisal is also Vice-President and Member of the Executive Committee, global Board of Directors of Relais & Chateaux – the world’s most prestigious association of 580 independent hotels and restaurants across 67 countries covering 5 continents with 380 Michelin stars at last count. He has the distinction of being the youngest person, and the only Indian ever to be elected to that position and has been successfully running that position for the last 9 years. He also takes a keen interest in the philanthropic wing of his family enterprise – The SNS Foundation. He was recently appointed Patron of the Conscious Travel Foundation in the United Kingdom.
Jaisal is a Member of The Government of Rajasthan’s Standing Committee for Wildlife, and also the State Board for Wildlife, chaired by the Chief Minister of Rajasthan. He is also a member of the Expert Committee on Tigers constituted by the Government of Rajasthan. In addition, he was also nominated as Special Invitee for the Punjab State Board for Wildlife, chaired by the Chief Minister of Punjab. He is a member of the Executive Board of The Ranthambhore Foundation, a conservation NGO that has worked to conserve the Ranthambhore Tiger Reserve, as well as wildlife across India since 1988.
Jaisal is a Member of the Managing Committee of The Modern School, Barakhamba Road, New Delhi, one of the country’s leading educational institutions. He is the Chairman of the Confederation of Indian Industry’s (CII) Northern Region Committee on Tourism & Hospitality since 2022. He is also a member of CII National Committee on Tourism & Hospitality since 2022.
Jaisal is the author of four books: ‘Polo in India’ – a definitive history of the sport in India published by Roli Books, India and New Holland, UK; ‘Ranthambhore – The Tiger’s Realm’ along with Anjali Singh and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra; and JAWAI – Land of the Leopard’ along with Anjali Singh; The Magical Mara, a family safari, Published by SUJÁN Art.
He is a student of military history and his articles on the subject have been published in India’s mainstream newspapers like the Business Standard.
Jaisal is Chairman, Rules Committee, Indian Polo Association, the sport’s national governing body for 2020-21 and 2021-22. He is a keen Polo player who has played up to a handicap of +2 and has done so across the world. He was a member of the legendary ‘Jodhpur’ team from 1994 to 2005. He now fields his own team, the SUJÁN Indian Tigers which has already won a tournament at the World Cup level, and has seen success in both India as well as the United Kingdom in the past two years.
Mr. Sumit Bhatnagar is a member of the ANAND Executive Board (AEB) and Group President. He is also the Deputy Managing Director of ANEVOLVE, a cleantech platform that is complementary to the ANAND Group. Sumit is responsible for setting up and growing new organisations catering to the needs of the EV industry in the two-, three- and four-wheeler markets.
As a part of the AEB, he oversees the business operations of ANAND CY Myutec (ACYM) and CY Myutec ANAND (CYMA). He is also responsible for the Corporate University of ANAND, driving manufacturing excellence across the Group.
Sumit brings with him rich experience spanning more than two decades with the ANAND Group. In his long stint with ANAND, he has handled cross-functional profiles in Operations, Manufacturing and Supply Chain, as well as spearheaded technology transfer projects from various parts of the globe.
Sumit had the unique opportunity of transitioning from Operations to Human Resource as the Group Chief Human Resource Officer, ANAND, where he played a major role in strengthening and transforming organisations.
Sumit’s educational background includes a Bachelor’s in Production Engineering. In addition, he holds an Executive Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management with specialisation in Finance and Strategy from IIM, Kozhikode. He is also a proud alumnus of the Sloan School of Management, MIT, and the Saïd Business School, Oxford
Mrs. Anjali Singh is the Executive Chairperson of ANAND Group. She also currently chairs the Group Supervisory Board, the group’s apex governing body that looks into key areas including partnerships, corporate governance and the strategic direction the group plans to take in the future. She is also the Executive Chairperson of the ANAND Executive Board. She also holds the position of Group Chief Human Resource Officer at ANAND.
At the group company’s level, she is the Executive Chairperson of Gabriel India Limited, the 60-year-old public-listed flagship company of the group known for pioneering the ride control products industry in India. She is the Chairperson of Dana Anand India, a joint venture between ANAND Group and Dana Incorporated, USA.
Demonstrating strong industry connect, Anjali holds key portfolios in various industry bodies. She serves as an Executive Committee Member of the Automotive Component Manufacturers Association of India (ACMA) and chairs its ‘Strategic Partnerships’ Pillar 4. She is also a member of the ACMA Western Region Committee.
She also holds various positions in the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII). She serves as the Vice Chairperson of the CII Haryana State Council. She is also a Member of the CII Northern Regional Council, and co-chairs the CII Northern Regional Committee on Advanced Manufacturing. She is serves as a Member of the CII International Council and a Member of the Governing Body of CII-CSM (VLFM) Initiative. She is also a Member of the India-Japan Business Leaders Forum (IJBLF). She is a Member of the Tata Motors Supplier Council. She was also an Executive Committee Member of the Maruti Suzuki Suppliers Welfare Association (MSSWA) from the year 2018 to 2022.
As an outstanding alumnus of the Aiglon College, Anjali has also recently been appointed as an Ordinary Member of the Aiglon College Association (ACA) and is also a member of the ACA Advancement Committee of the school.
Anjali is also actively involved in SUJÁN along with Mr. Jaisal Singh, her husband, and plays a vital role as the Co-Founder & Creative Director. Currently, SUJÁN has four distinct experiences on offer: SUJÁN Sher Bagh (Ranthambhore), SUJÁN The Serai (Jaisalmer), SUJÁN JAWAI (Jawai Bandh) and Elephant Pepper Camp (Masai Mara, Kenya). All three of SUJÁN properties in India are members of Relais & Châteaux, an association of the world’s finest hotels, hoteliers and grand chefs.
Forbes Asia listed Anjali as one of the ‘2016 Power Business Women’, a list comprising 12 young business leaders on the rise in Asia. She was honoured with the ‘Women Achievers’ Award in 2016 by FICCI. In 2019, she received the prestigious Indian Council for UN Relations (ICUNR) International Women’s Day Award 2018-19 for her exceptional contribution towards the field of hospitality as Co-Founder & Creative Director of SUJÁN. Most recently, she was identified as one of the Top 5 nominees for ET Prime Women Leadership Awards 2020 under the ‘Businesswoman of the Year’ category.
Anjali earned her bachelor’s degree from the prestigious Central Martin’s School of Art and Design in London and master’s degree in fine art from the same institution. She also studied business management from the University of Westminster.
Anjali is deeply committed to the cause of sustainability and to creating a positive social impact. The group’s CSR wing called SNS Foundation, established in 1976, has a fine focus on education, health and hygiene, community development and wildlife conservation in India. The Foundation operates across all major locations of the group and has brought about social and economic change among both rural and urban communities. Since the early 2000s, SUJÁN has had a presence in the rural hinterlands of Rajasthan state. Through its outreach programmes in association with SNSF, it aims at preserving and restoring wilderness areas as well as improving the quality of life among the local communities. Anjali also serves as a Trustee on the Board of Deep C Anand Educational Trust which runs the ANAND School in Parwanoo, Himachal Pradesh. The purpose of the ANAND school is to develop young citizens of the world to be equipped for the future, with a holistic outlook of arts, culture, sports, social skills and of course academic excellence.
Anjali has been associated with the Rajasthan Crafts Council as an Executive Committee Member under the chairpersonship of the Former Chief Minister of Rajasthan, and a member of Saat Saath Arts Foundation. Both of these organisations aim to see India’s contemporary art find its rightful place in India and internationally. She has co-authored ‘Ranthambhore – The Tiger’s Realm’ along with Mr. Jaisal Singh and Ms. Priyanka Gandhi Vadra which was published in 2011. She’s also a co-author of ‘JAWAI – Land of the Leopard’ along with Mr. Jaisal Singh, published in 2016. She remains active in the creative space through her regular forays into the realms of designing and photography.
After an excellent tenure as the group’s Chief Executive Officer for 11 years, and a sterling 44-year career at ANAND, Mr. Deepak Chopra has retired as the Group CEO on the 15th of January 2021.
Deepak has now joined the Group Supervisory Board (GSB) of ANAND with effect from the 16th of January 2021. He is the Chairman of the Operations Committee, as well as a Member of the Personnel Committee of the GSB.
He also plays an advisory role in partnership relations and legal affairs. Further to this, Deepak is Co-Chairman, Joyson ANAND Abhishek Safety Systems, a joint venture with Joyson Safety Systems, USA. In addition, he chairs the group’s Ethics Committee. Deepak also has a role of mentoring certain key management personnel. He also oversees the group’s philanthropic wing, the SNS Foundation.
Deepak has held various positions in key industry bodies including serving as a member of Steering and Executive Committees of the Automotive Component Manufacturers Association of India (ACMA) and Chairman of ACMA Northern Region.
Deepak is a Chartered Accountant, Company Secretary and has been recognized as an outstanding alumnus of the Advanced Management & Leadership program of the Oxford University, UK. He began his career at ANAND in 1976 as a management trainee and has held various positions of increasing responsibility over the years.
Mr. Tejpreet S. Chopra is a Director of the Group Supervisory Board (GSB). He sits on the Finance, Audit & Risk Committee as well as the Operations Committee of the GSB.
Tejpreet is the Founder & CEO of Bharat Light & Power Group (BLP). BLP is one of the leading clean energy generation (IPP) and technology companies in India. BLP has 3 companies in the group. The first focuses on developing, owning, and operating utility scale wind and solar farms. The second provides distributed solar solutions to the commercial & industrial sector. The third group company, “Industry.AI” is an Industrial IoT & Enterprise AI software application product company. It provides end to end monitoring, reporting and advanced analytics that improve productivity, efficiency and sustainability across industries including manufacturing, infrastructure, energy, steel, oil & gas etc. The BLP Group has had joint ventures with the Italian utility, Enel Green Power, and the Norwegian utility, Statkraft.
Tejpreet’s 22 years of global management and finance experience was gained in various business roles held in France, England, Hong Kong, India and USA, of which over 14 years were at General Electric.
Until 2010, Tejpreet was the President & CEO of General Electric in India, Sri Lanka & Bangladesh, and was responsible for directing GE’s strategies for growth in these countries.
Prior to that, Tejpreet served as President & CEO of GE Capital (Commercial Finance) in India, where he successfully restructured and expanded the business, thereby establishing GE Commercial Finance as one of the premier financial institutions in India.
Since joining GE in 1996, he has held positions in marketing, structured finance and risk management, in Stamford and Hong Kong for GE Capital Aviation Services (GECAS). In 2005, he moved from the unit’s headquarters in Stamford, Connecticut, to open GECAS’s office in Delhi. As Senior Vice-President and Country Head-India for GECAS, Tejpreet arranged over US$1 billion in financing for India’s growing airline industry.
At present, he is an Independent Director on the board of SRF Limited, IEX (Indian Energy Exchange) and Chairman of the board of APM Terminals Pipavav port (A.P. Møller – Maersk A/S group), besides ANAND. He is also on the board of the World Economic Forum Foundation for YGL’s; and the UK based Clean Air Fund. Tejpreet was recently nominated to the Board of Governors of the Lawrence School, Sanawar. He is the National Skill Development Corporation (Govt of India and Indian Industry initiative) Nominee Director on the Board of the Power Sector Skill Council.
Tejpreet is involved in various industry associations. He is a member of the National Council of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), was the Chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce in India (AMCHAM), and was on the Board of Directors of the U.S.-India Business Council (USIBC). He is a member of the Council of Management of the All India Management Association (AIMA). Tejpreet was recently appointed the Co-Chair of the World Economic Forum’s, Global Future Council (GFC) on Advanced Energy Technologies. He is also on the World Economic Forum’s Stewardship Board on the Future of Energy. He is a participant of the Young Presidents Organization (YPO) and the Cornell University Council. He is also an Aspen Institute Fellow, a part of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. He was nominated as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum (WEF) in 2010. Tejpreet has also spoken at several international conferences, including Asia Society’s CEO Forum Series in New York and LA, the Economist’s India Business Summit in London, the Wharton India Economic Forum, the Harvard Business School India Conference, and the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos.
He graduated from The Lawrence School, Sanawar. Tejpreet holds an MBA degree from Cornell University, a B.A. Honors degree in Economics from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University and attended an executive program at the Harvard Kennedy School. He enjoys sports and music – and was a national level swimmer.
Mr. Deep C Anand, Founder of ANAND Group and Chairman of the Deep C Anand Foundation is an alumnus of Bishop Cotton School, Shimla, India. He is a mechanical engineer from the Chippenham College of Technology, UK. His business career began in 1954, as plant manager at Mahindra & Mahindra, Mumbai, India. At 27, full of energetic enterprise, Mr. Anand launched his first business venture – Gabriel India, the flagship company of the Group – in collaboration with Maremont Corporation, USA to manufacture shock absorbers in India.
With the success of this joint venture, Mr. Anand created a pattern of collaboration which brought the ‘best-in-class’ into India and established successful partnerships with leading global automotive companies. Over the next six decades, the Group formed successful alliances with leaders of the automotive industry like CY Myutec, (Korea) Dana Holding Corporation (USA); Faurecia Emissions Control Technologies (France), Haldex AB (Sweden), Henkel Teroson GmbH (Germany), MAHLE Behr Holding GmbH (Germany), MAHLE Filtersysteme GmbH (Germany), Mando Corporation (Korea) Takata Corporation (Japan) and Valeo (France). The Group has also established strategic technical collaborations with leading automotive companies like KONI BV (the Netherlands), KYB Corporation (Japan), KYBSE (Spain), LIQUI MOLY GmbH (Germany), Sango (Japan), Sunrise MSI (Japan) and Yamaha Motor Hydraulic Systems (Japan). The Group supplies the widest range of automotive components in India to most OEM and aftermarket clients with a substantial portion exported to global markets, making it India’s leading manufacturer of automotive components.
Corporate governance at ANAND is led by the Deep C Anand Foundation and the ANAND Supervisory Board. It aims at providing strategic direction and governance as the apex body, while accelerating the ANAND vision and strengthening relations with overseas partners while safeguarding shareholder interests. The management structure at ANAND comprises the ANAND Executive Committee, the ANAND Management Committee and Company Boards and Management. The SNS Foundation, the Group’s CSR arm was founded in the 1970s. The charitable foundation focuses primarily on areas like women’s empowerment, education and healthcare. Through its various initiatives, it has been instrumental in touching the lives of ~8,000 women from 760 self-help groups, 14,000 students from 55 adopted government schools and 2,800 youth from 16 skill development centres. The ANAND Group as it stands today, 19 companies, 19 global alliances and 14,000 people spread across 59 locations, resonates with Mr. Anand’s belief in the ‘Power of Partnership’.
Mr. Lorenzo Piaget, Director, ANAND Supervisory Board is a partner of Piaget & Associés, Lausanne and serves as its tax advisor. He is also a member of the Board of Solvalor Fund Management SA, a director at Purolator India Limited and a member on the ANAND Supervisory Board. Lorenzo holds a law degree from the Geneva University.
Mrs. Kiran D. Anand is a Partner in Ansysco ANAND LLP which is a manufacturing company for making coolants, adhesives and brake fluids. She is a Director in Deep C. Anand Holdings Private Limited, Anchemco Limited and Anfilco Limited.
She is also one of the founding trustees of ANAND’s CSR arm, SNS Foundation (SNSF). Her guidance and continuous motivation, encouragement has led the professional team at SNSF to design and execute several initiatives in the fields of education and skill development. Her charitable disposition sees her supporting several social causes.
Mrs. Anand went to Welham Girls School, Dehradun. She has been married to Mr. Deep Chand Anand for the last 56 years.
Mrs. Anjali Singh is the Executive Chairperson of ANAND Group. She also currently chairs the Group Supervisory Board, the apex governing body of the Group that looks into key areas including partnerships, corporate governance and the strategic direction of the Group. She is also the Chairperson of the ANAND Executive Board. She also holds the position of Group Chief Human Resource Officer at ANAND.
At the Group Company’s level, she is the Executive Chairperson of Gabriel India Limited, the 60-year-old public-listed flagship company of the Group known for pioneering the ride control products industry in India. She is the Chairperson of Dana Anand India, a joint venture between ANAND Group and Dana Incorporated, USA.
Demonstrating strong industry connect, Anjali holds key portfolios in various industry bodies. She serves as an Executive Committee Member of the Automotive Component Manufacturers Association of India (ACMA), co-chairs the ACMA Northern Region Committee and chairs its ‘Strategic Partnerships’ Pillar. She also holds various positions in the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII). She serves as a Member of the CII International Council and a Member of the Governing Body of CII-CSM (VLFM) Initiative. She is also a Member of the CII Northern Regional Council for the year 2021-22, and Co-Chairs the CII Northern Regional Committee on Advanced Manufacturing. She is also a member of the India Japan Business Leaders Forum (IJBLF). She is an Executive Committee Member of the Maruti Suzuki Suppliers Welfare Association (MSSWA) and a Member of the Tata Motors Supplier Council.
Anjali is also actively involved in SUJÁN along with Mr. Jaisal Singh, her husband, and plays a vital role as the Co-Founder & Creative Director. Currently, SUJÁN has four distinct experiences on offer: SUJÁN Sher Bagh (Ranthambhore), SUJÁN The Serai (Jaisalmer), SUJÁN JAWAI (Jawai Bandh) and Elephant Pepper Camp (Masai Mara, Kenya). All three of SUJÁN properties in India are members of Relais & Châteaux, an association of the world’s finest hotels, hoteliers and grand chefs.
Forbes Asia listed Anjali as one of the ‘2016 Power Business Women’, a list comprising 12 young business leaders on the rise in Asia. She was honoured with the ‘Women Achievers’ Award in 2016 by FICCI. In 2019, she received the prestigious Indian Council for UN Relations (ICUNR) International Women’s Day Award 2018-19 for her exceptional contribution towards the field of hospitality as Co-Founder & Creative Director of SUJÁN. Most recently, she has been identified as one of the Top 5 nominees for ET Prime Women Leadership Awards 2020 under the ‘Businesswoman of the Year’ category.
Anjali earned her bachelor’s degree from the prestigious Central Martin’s School of Art and Design in London and master’s degree in fine art from the same institution. She also studied business management from the University of Westminster.
Anjali is deeply committed to the cause of sustainability and creating a positive social impact. The Group’s CSR wing called SNS Foundation has a fine focus on education, health and hygiene, community development and wildlife conservation in India. Anjali has been associated with the Rajasthan Crafts Council as an Executive Committee Member under the chairpersonship of the Former Chief Minister of Rajasthan, and a member of Saat Saath Arts Foundation. Both of these organisations aim to see India’s contemporary art find its rightful place in India and internationally. She has co-authored ‘Ranthambhore – The Tiger’s Realm’ along with Mr. Jaisal Singh and Ms. Priyanka Gandhi Vadra which was published in 2011. She’s also a co-author of ‘JAWAI – Land of the Leopard’ along with Mr. Jaisal Singh, published in 2016. She remains active in the creative space through her regular forays into the realms of designing and photography.
Mr. Deepak Chopra, Group CEO, heads the executive management structure at ANAND. A trustee of the Deep C Anand Foundation, Deepak chairs the ANAND Executive Committee and ANAND Management Committee besides overseeing the entire operations for the Group and key corporate functions including human resources, finance, corporate strategy and stakeholder relationships.
Deepak is also the Executive Chairman of Spicer India Private Limited, a prestigious JV with Dana Holding Corporation of USA. He also chairs the Boards of Mando Automotive India Private Limited and Takata India Private Limited and a few other ANAND companies. A veteran with >40 years of leadership experience at ANAND, Deepak is a chartered accountant, company secretary and an alumnus of the advanced management course, Oxford University, UK. He began his career at ANAND in 1976 and has held various positions of increasing responsibility over the years.
After heading the Finance function at Purolator India, ANAND corporate headquarters, Perfect Circle Victor and Gabriel India, Deepak took on the responsibility of handling new projects and operations and successfully established the large sized and thick walled bearings project in 1993 with a German partner BHW, then part of Federal Mogul Corporation of USA. He was subsequently appointed COO of Purolator India (the current MAHLE ANAND Filter Systems) between 1994 and 1996, after which he moved to Chennai to establish and head ANAND’s operations in South India with three new joint ventures: Mando India for brake systems with Mando of Korea, Arvin Exhaust India (currently Faurecia Emission Control Technologies India) with Arvin Meritor, USA originally and now with Faurecia, France and Valeo Friction Materials India with Valeo, France. In 2002, Deepak took over the role of Group CFO at ANAND corporate headquarters where besides overseeing finance, treasury and legal functions of the Group, he was also responsible for mergers and acquisitions and overseas partner relationships. From 2006, Deepak was also assigned the additional responsibility as Group President to oversee the operations of five ANAND companies before taking over as Group CEO in September 2009.
Mr. Jaisal Singh was born in New Delhi where he attended The Modern School, and the British School. He subsequently studied politics & government, and economics at Collingham in London.
In 2000, Jaisal established Sher Bagh, Ranthambhore which was among India’s first luxury safari camps. Thereafter, he signed a JV with the luxury hotel group Aman Resorts to set up the first Aman in India, which culminated in the opening of Aman-i-Khas also in Ranthambhore. In 2009, along with Anjali his wife, they expanded SUJÁN with the opening of The Serai, Jaisalmer. Sher Bagh and The Serai have been consistently acclaimed globally as being among the best hotels in the world by a series of international rankings and were the first few hotels in India to be accepted as members of Relais & Châteaux; an association of the world best hotels, hoteliers and grand chefs. In 2011, SUJÁN went global by partnering with Cheli & Peacock for Elephant Pepper Camp, situated within the world-famous Masai Mara National Reserve in Kenya. The camp has played a key role in the Mara North Conservancy which has added 77,500 acres of protected area to the Mara ecosystem.
JAWAI between Jodhpur and Udaipur opened in 2013, and has won the CNBC Best Wildlife Experience in India in its first season, helping the SUJÁN brand to further consolidate itself as a market leader. In June 2014, SUJÁN was awarded a contract by the royal family of Jaipur to manage one of their royal palaces, The Rajmahal Palace, which dates back to 1729. The palace-hotel opened in 2015 after an elaborate refurbishment. As of today, all three SUJÁN properties in India are members of Relais & Châteaux.
Jaisal Singh is the first Indian to ever be elected Vice President of Relais & Châteaux and Member of their Executive Committee & Board of Directors. He is also the youngest person ever to hold that position.
He is a member of the Confederation of Indian Industry’s National Committee on Tourism.
Mr. Singh is a Director of the ANAND Supervisory Board, the apex governing body of the Group. He sits on the Finance, Audit & Risk Committee as well as the Personnel Committee of the Board. This aside, along with Mrs. Anjali Singh the Group’s Chairperson, he is actively involved in overseeing key areas like strategy, governance and JV partner relationships.
Jaisal has been committed to wildlife conservation from a young age and serves on the Executive Board of The Ranthambhore Foundation, which has pioneered and spearheaded community conservation initiatives in 96 villages that border the Ranthambhore Tiger Reserve since 1988.
Jaisal Singh is a member of the Managing Committee of The Modern School, Barakhamba Road, New Delhi.
A talented polo player and commentator, Jaisal has played polo around the world and has a number of tournament wins to his name both in India and abroad. His efforts off the field have seen a continuation of this professionalism in his definitive work Polo in India, published by Roli Books in 2007. Mr. Singh is a co-author of Ranthambhore – The Tiger’s Realm (2011) along with Mrs. Anjali Singh and Mrs. Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and a co-author of JAWAI- Land of the Leopard (2016) along with Mrs. Anjali Singh.
He is a devoted student of military history, and his articles on the subject have been published in Indian national newspapers including the Business Standard.
Mr. Rohit Arora has over three decades of experience in business process management, investment banking and management consulting. Rohit has dealt with several Fortune 500 corporations on cross-border transactions in the aforementioned areas.
Rohit is the Founder-Chairman of Silverskills Private Limited, a company that provides BPM solutions to companies in the financial and healthcare services sectors across the globe. Earlier, Rohit was the Managing Director and Country Head of AIA Capital India Private Limited, (member of the AIG Group), a company that provides investment banking and corporate finance services. He began his career as a consultant with A.F. Ferguson & Co., the then correspondents of KPMG in India.
Rohit is a fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and also serves on the Board of numerous Indian and multinational companies as an independent non-executive director.
