Board of Directors

Dr. J N Singh, IAS

Chairman

Dr. J N Singh, IAS is Chief Secretary, Government of Gujarat. He has

very rich and varied experience of 33 years holding various positions
in Government of Gujarat and Government of India.

He has served largely in Infrastructure & Finance sector including

Industrial Infrastructure, Power, Telecom, Information Technology,
Highways, Water, etc.
He was Additional Chief Secretary, Finance Department, Government
of Gujarat from 05.11.2014 to 31.07.2016, Jt. Managing Director of
GIDC, Member of Gujarat Electricity Board and Managing Director of
Sardar Sarovar Narmada Nigam Limited.

Shri D.C. Anjaria

Director

Mr. D. C. Anjaria took his M. B. A. from IIM, Ahmedabad in 1968. He

joined Citibank in Bombay, spent 7 years in India, and 13 years as
an International Staff in Africa, the Middle East and Europe. He was
Associate Director of Citibank International Training Centre in
Athens, and Chief of Staff at Citicorp Investment Bank at Paris,
France.
Back in India in 1989, he founded and headed UTI Institute of
Capital Markets, where he has taught courses in capital markets and
financial risk management. He has developed a Global Balance Sheet
Management System as a vehicle for corporate financial control and
risk management. Mr. Anjaria has served as a consultant to Citibank
in France and Switzerland and Eco Bank in Africa.

Mr. Anjaria has advised the Govt. of Indonesia and has served on
Govt. of India/SEBI committees on Mutual Funds and Derivatives. He
has been Chairman of two SEBI Committees - Short Sales and
Brokers' fees. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the
Derivatives and Capital Markets Segments of the National Stock
Exchange of India Ltd. Mr. Anjaria advised the Forward Markets
Commission of the Govt. of India, as a World Bank consultant, on
Commodity Markets.

His consulting firm International Financial Solutions Pvt. Ltd. has

advised the Govt. of Gujarat on development of the Financial Sector
in Gujarat, having conceptualised the establishment of Gujarat
International Finance Tec-city.

He was a member of UTI Debt Asset Management Committee. He is

also on the Board of Ratnamani Metals and Tubes Ltd, International
Financial Solutions Pvt. Ltd, Indian Institute of Financial Services
Pvt. Ltd, Gujarat Tech Markets Pvt. Ltd.

Dr. Vasant P. Gandhi

Director

Dr. Vasant Gandhi is Ph.D., M.S. and M.A. from Stanford, and PGP
from Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad. He is
currently Professor at IIM, Ahmedabad specializing in economics,
marketing and agribusiness. He has been Chairman of the Post-
Graduate Programme in Agri-Business Management, and of the
Centre for Management in Agriculture at IIM, Ahmedabad.

Dr. Gandhi has worked with the World Bank and the International
Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in Washington for 8 years. He
has been visiting professor at the University of Sydney, and the
James Cook University in Australia, and has taught at ICRISAT's
Centre in Zimbabwe, and the Munich Centre for Advanced Training in
Applied Statistics, Germany.

Dr. Gandhi has been a consultant to numerous organizations

including the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO), the
World Food Program, the World Bank, Government of India,
Government of Gujarat, Government of Madhya Pradesh, Agriculture
Insurance Company of India, McKinsey & Company, Dow, and ITC-
Zeneca.

Dr. Gandhi has been a member of the international Biotechnology

Advisory Council of the US multinational Monsanto, and on the Board
of Directors of various organizations including the seed
multinational Advanta, Nuvo Fertilizers, and the State Bank of
Saurashtra (SBI group).

Dr. Gandhi has written, published and presented extensively, and is

on the Editorial Boards of several national and international
journals. He represents India on the Council of the International
Association of Agricultural Economists (IAAE). His contributions on
Gujarat include Gujarat Agricultural Development for Growth and
Poverty Reduction report of the World Bank, and Cotton Revolution
in Gujarat: The Impact of Bt Technology of IIM, Ahmedabad. His
work has been recently referred and used in the World Development
Report 2008 of the World Bank.
Shri Ajay N. Shah
Director

Ajay Shah studied at IIT, Bombay and USC, Los Angeles. He has held
positions at the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (Bombay),
Indira Gandhi Institute for Development Research (Bombay) and the
Ministry of Finance, and now works at NIPFP. His research interests
include policy issues on Indian economic growth, open economy
macroeconomics, public finance, financial economics and pensions.
In the past decade, he was extensively involved in the policy process
in the reforms of the equity market and the New Pension System.

Shri Vijai Kapoor

Director

Shri Vijai Kapoor served in Indian Administrative Service and has

later served as Lieutenant Governor of Delhi for 6½ years. He has
had rich administrative experience of varied nature.

Smt. Geeta Goradia

Director

Smt. Geeta Goradia is the immediate Past President of Federation of

Gujarat Industries (FGI). She is the first lady to hold this position in
the FGI ever since it's inception in 1918. She is also a successful
entrepreneur and is presently the Managing Director of Jewel
Consumer Care Pvt. Ltd.

She has done her MA Honors in Industrial Economics and Law from
M.S.University, Vadodara.

She has varied experience including being the Lecturer in Business

Economics in M.S. University before settling down as a full time
entrepreneur.

From modest beginning in 1986, the industry she is heading, has

grown exponentially. It's the major exporter of Oral Care & House
Cleaning Products to more than 50 countries and under her able
leadership her company is winning The Top Exporters award from
Plastic Export Promotion Council since 2007 consistently.

She has to her credit many awards and accolades and to name a few
are "Best Women Entrepreneur Award 2008-'09" constituted by
Gujarat Chamber of Commerce & Industry; Best Women
Entrepreneur Award from Centre for Entrepreneurship Development,
Government of Gujarat, Gauravvanta Gujarati Award - 2011 by
International creative Art Society (ICAS) so on and so forth.

Apart from being past president of FGI, She is the Senate and
Syndicate member of Maharaja Sayajirao University (2012 - 2017),
Member - Gujarat State Social Security Board of Labour and
Employment Department, Govt. of Gujarat and Council Member of
Gujarat Technology University (GTU).

Shri Sujit Gulati, IAS

Director
Shri Sujit Gulati, IAS is Mechanical Engineer and Indian
Administrative Officer of Gujarat Cadre since 1985.
He is having varied and rich experience and has served as Joint
Secretary and Financial Advisor, Ministry of Mines of Government of
India. He has held key positions in the various
Departments/Ministries of Government of Gujarat.
He has served as Director in various companies including Digjam
Ltd., National Textile Corporation Limited, Gujarat Mineral
Development Corporation Limited, Coal India Ltd, Bharat Aluminium
Company Limited, Hindustan Zinc Ltd. and Gujarat Chemicals Port
Terminal Company Limited. Shri Sujit Gulati, IAS is presently
Additional Chief Secretary of Energy and Petrochemicals
Department, Government of Gujarat.

Shri A M Tiwari, IAS

Managing Director

Shri A M Tiwari is a Senior IAS Officer of 1985 batch having

experience of more than two decades in the State Education, Tribal
and Rural Development, Mines and Geology, Transport and
Administration.

He had a stint as the Executive Director of SWA-Shakti Project in the

department of Women and Child Development in the Ministry of
HRD, Government of India. He was also the Managing Director of
Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertilizers and Chemicals Ltd.