Specialty Chemicals company Aarti Industries Limited (AIL) announced the appointment of Prof. Aniruddha B. Pandit, Shekhar S. Khanolkar and Ajay Kumar Gupta to its Board of Directors, with effect from June 29, 2023.
Prof. Aniruddha B. Pandit is presently a Vice Chancellor, Institute of Chemical Technology, India, Vice President, INAE (Academic, Professional, and International Affairs) and President, 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, H-Index and secured many National and International Patents, Awards and Recognitions.
Shekhar S. Khanolkar has a career spanning 30 years with American, European multinationals and with Indian business houses and worked at senior levels in Companies like Cyanamid India Limited, Cetex Petrochemicals, 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 speciality 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.
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