Aarti Industries Ltd appoints new directors
Aarti Industries Ltd announced the change in Board of Directors on 28th June 2023. Aniruddha B. Pandit and Shekhar S. Khanolkar have been appointed as Independent Directors and Ajay Kumar Gupta is appointed as the Executive Director of the company.
Aniruddha B. Pandit is presently the Vice Chancellor, of the Institute of Chemical Technology, India Vice President, of INAE (Academic, Professional, and International Affairs), and President, of the Asia Oceania Sonochemical Society Board. He has been teaching mainly Environmental Engineering and Process Safety, Chemical Project Economics, Design of Multiphase Reactors, Project Engineering & Economics, Separation Processes, and is a recognized Research Guide for 60+ Ph.D. as well as 100+ Master’s Students. He has authored hundreds of International Research Publications, Citations, and H-Index and secured many National and International Patents, Awards, and Recognitions.
Shekhar S. Khanolkar has a career spanning 30 years with American, and European multinationals and with Indian business houses and worked at senior levels in Companies like Cyanamid India Limited, Cetex Petrochemicals, and RPG Enterprises. He was a Management Council Member at BASF India as Chief Executive for South Asia for seven years. He was also Executive Director and Managing Director of Navin Fluorine International Limited for eleven years. He has functional expertise in production, sales, marketing, business development, product management, vendor development, strategy conceptualization and delivery of multiple projects, P&L, cross border acquisition.
Ajay Kumar Gupta is presently the Chief Manufacturing Officer of Aarti Industries Limited and heading the manufacturing across the chemical segment. He has been leading strategy formulation and implementation of business processes. He is also responsible for all brownfield projects across all manufacturing locations. He has over three and half decades of experience in chemical, petrochemical, and Specialty Chemicals in all domains of manufacturing and projects, having worked in senior Leadership roles in Companies like IPCL, Reliance Industries Limited, Grasim Industries Limited, and Jubilant Life Sciences Limited.
