Board of Directors

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.

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.

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 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 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 Arvind Agarwal, IAS, aged 58 years, is a very Senior IAS Officer of Government of Gujarat
He has done Post Graduation in Commerce. He has very rich and varied experience of around 33 years and has held distinguished positions in Government of Gujarat like District Development Officer and Collector - Bharuch, Labour Commissioner, Industries Commissioner, Additional Chief Secretary, Education, Industries & Mines Departments, GoG.

Shri Sujit Gulati, IAS, is an Additional Chief Secretary rank IAS Officer and presently Managing Director, Gujarat State Fertilizers & Chemicals Ltd., Vadodara. Shri Gulati is having varied and rich experience and has served as in Ministries of Coal, Mines, Sports & Youth Affairs and Textiles of Government of India. He held key positions in various Departments of Government of Gujarat like Industry, Finance, Energy & Petrochemicals, Geology and Mining, Rural Development, Panchayat, Transport, Information Technology, Labour, etc. besides serving as Director on Boards ofvarious companies.