Mr. Anil B. Jain (DIN:00053035)
Mr. Anil Jain has served as Managing Director of Jain Irrigation Systems Limited (JISL) since 1992. He has since steered the growth of the company from INR 0.35 billion to INR 80 billion (approx. USD 1.2 billion in 2018). He joined the Company’s management team in 1984 and worked in the New York office between 1987 and 1991, leading its international marketing from there. Thereafter, he returned to India and took charge of the Company’s overall functioning as Managing Director and CEO.
Mr. Anil Jain is a veteran professional with over 30 years of experience in core strategic areas such as finance and banking, domestic and international marketing, strategic planning, horizontal and vertical expansion, and change management. He, along with his three brothers, enabled JISL’s successful global expansion to 126 countries. JISL has become the only Indian agricultural corporation with its origin and foundation in rural India to offer a richly integrated product and services basket that benefits the entire value chain of stakeholders.
Being an advocate for the cause of small and marginal farmers across the world, Mr. Anil Jain has driven JISL’s multifold progress while keeping the small farmer at the fulcrum of all its objectives and activities. He works zealously towards the issues of food security, water security and energy security. Innovative entrepreneurship is his chosen tool for creating sustainable impact in agriculture, natural resource management, food processing, renewable energy, and related areas. Under his leadership, JISL has positioned itself at the forefront of cutting edge innovation in the field of agriculture to provide cost effective solutions to the farmers that improve their productivity and prosperity.
He is an avid reader. His belief in integrated practices such as non violence in thoughts and actions, equanimity and conservation, in business as much as in personal life, has led him to undertake many a philanthropic, social and cultural cause. He follows a modest lifestyle both at work and home.
Mr. Anil Jain has a degree in commerce from Pune University (1984) and a degree in law from Mumbai University (1986); He is a Director of Gandhi Research Foundation - Jalgaon & PAPSAC HBS (Private & Public Scientific, Academic & Consumer Food Policy Group Harvard Business School), U.S.A. He is the Chairman of Steering Committee to Create Shared Value in Agribusiness – ACTION PLATFORM. He has been appointed as member of Food Processing Education Committee (FPEC), Government of India; Member of WBCSD CEO Council; Member of India-Israel CEO Forum; Member of Society & Board of Governors of IIM - Sambalpur (Ministry of HRD-Delhi) & Member of Board of Governor, IIT-Jodhpur, Member of WBCSD - Food, Land & Water Program Board.
Particulars
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Disclosures
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Date of Appointment & term of appointment (Proposed)
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W.e.f.01st October, 2018, 5 years
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Date of Birth and Age
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10th March, 1965, 53 years.
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Qualification
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B. Com., LLB.
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Date of first appointment
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30th December, 1986
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Shareholding in the Company
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1,13,690 Ordinary Equity Shares and 5,684 DVR Equity Shares
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Disclosure of relationships between Directors
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Shri Ashok B. Jain, Shri Anil B. Jain, Shri Ajit B. Jain and Shri Atul B. Jain are brothers and related to each other.
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Other Directorships Membership/Chairmanship of Committees of other Boards*
1) Jalgaon Investments Private Limited,
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2) Stock and Securities India Private Limited,
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3) Cosmos Investment and Trading Private Limited,
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4) Gandhi Research Foundation,
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5) Sustainable Agro-Commercial Finance Limited,
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6) JAF Products Private Limited,
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7) Jain Brothers Industries Private Limited,
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8) Jain Processed Foods Trading and Investments Private Limited,
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9) Jain Farm Fresh Foods Limited,
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10) JISL Overseas Limited,
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11) Jain America Foods Inc.,
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12) Cascade Specialties Inc.,
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13) Jain Irrigation Holding Corporation Inc.,
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14) JIIO,
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15) Jain Europe Limited,
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16) Naandan Jain Irrigation Limited,
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17) Jain Irrigation Inc.,
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18) Jain Agricultural Services, LLC,
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19) Jain (Israel) B. V.,
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20) Jain International Trading B. V.,
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21) Jain America Holdings Inc.,
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22) Sleaford Quality Foods Limited,
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23) Sleaford Food Group Limited,
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24) Arnolds Quick Dried Foods Limited,
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25) Jain International Foods Limited,
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26) Point Source Irrigation Inc.,
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27) Ex-cel Plastics Limited,
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28) Jain Overseas B. V.,
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29) Jain Distribution Holdings Inc.,
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30) Jain Investment and Finance B. V.,
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31) Jain Overseas Investments Limited,
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32) Jain Farm Fresh Holdings SPRL,
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33) Innovatrading BVBA,
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34) Innovafood NV,
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35) Ex-cel Plastic Piping Systems,
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36) Jain Agricultural Services Australia Pty Limited,
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Above entities are group holding, subsidiary companies and or trusts.