PROFILE OF CHAIRMAN, NSC

 

 

Shri. Anand G. Mahindra after graduating from Harvard College and earning an MBA degree from the Harvard Business School, returned to India and joined Mahindra Ugine Steel Company Ltd. (MUSCO), the country’s foremost producer of specialty steel, as Executive Assistant to the Finance Director.  He rose to become President and Deputy Managing Director of MUSCO in 1989. During his stint at MUSCO, he initiated the Mahindra Group’s diversification into the new business areas of real estate development and hospitality management.


In 1991, he was appointed Deputy Managing Director of Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd., the flagship company of the Mahindra Group, and the country’s dominant producer of off-road vehicles and agricultural tractors. In April 1997, he was appointed Managing Director of Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd and in January 2003 given the additional responsibility of Vice Chairman. His focus in Mahindra and Mahindra has been to drive a comprehensive change programme that has transformed the company and the Group into an efficient and aggressive competitor in the new liberalized economic environment in India.

Anand G. Mahindra

Other positions:

Was the Past President of the Confederation of Indian Industry and the Automotive Research Association of India (ARAI),

 is also on the Board of the National Stock Exchange of India, 

 is the Co-Chairman of the International Council of the Asia Society, New York,

 is a member of the 2nd India Advisory Panel of International Enterprise Singapore, 

 is a member of the Board of Dean’s Advisors of Harvard Business School and

             also serves on the Advisory Committee of the Harvard University Asia Centre. 

 

Shri. Mahindra takes a keen interest in education in India and is on the Governing Board of several educational initiatives.

 

Shri. Anand Mahindra is recipient of numerous National and International Awards which include:

The ‘Knight of the Order of Merit’ by the President of the French Republic,

the Rajiv Gandhi Award for outstanding contribution in the business field,

the 2005 Leadership Award from the American India Foundation,

the person of the Year 2005 by Auto Monitor,

CNBC Asia Business Leader Award for the year 2006,

the Most Inspiring Corporate Leader of the Year 2007 by NDTV Profit and

            Business Man of the Year 2007 from Business India.