Sanjay Punkhia
Director

Ajit Warty
Director

Vinay Bansal
Director

Ananth Ravi
Director

Parag Parekh
Director

Sanjay Punkhia
Director

Sanjay Punkhia is on the Board of NMSEZ. He is a professional with deep insight in to formulation of Project Execution Strategy and turning the strategy into action, understands the market / business the Company operates in and formulates the business models necessary to generate value.

He is a Chartered Accountant by profession. He has spent 14 years with the Aditya Birla Group where he was associated with developing and implementing Chemical Projects at Nagda and Vikram Ispat in Maharashtra. He then moved on to develop two 500 MW Power Projects for the same group. Complete Planning, Contracts and Financing was arranged by him. In the process, he developed the competencies in the area of Project Cost Estimates, Project Contracts and Procurement, Project Risk Assessment and Risk Mitigation.

He is a young, energetic and enthusiastic person who has a natural flair for leadership and believes in “pulling” the people forward and not pushing them along. He has the knack to find the right talent, assign resources and get the work done.

Ajit Warty
Director

Ajit Warty is Director on the Board of MSEZ & NMSEZ. He is an Ex Indian Administrative Service (Maharashtra Cadre) officer who has been in public service for nearly 40 years. He joined SEZ Company in August 2005.

Ajit Warty started his career with the Indian Army where he worked in the field formations as well as on staff assignments. He relinquished his commission as a Captain after being selected for Indian Administrative Service (IAS). As a Maharashtra cadre officer of the IAS, he has been exposed to a very wide range of activities which inter alia covers regulatory, developmental functions & urban development. He worked as Assistant Collector, thereafter Collector of a District, and Commissioner of a Division as well as Principal Secretary of the Revenue Department. He had long tenure as Additional Municipal Commissioner of Mumbai, Municipal Commissioner of Pune and was also an Administrator of Nagpur Municipal Corporation.

He was the Vice-President & CEO of the Maharashtra Housing Road Development Authority (MHRDA) and thereafter, as Principal Secretary of Housing and Special Assistance Department dealing with policy issues of Public Housing, Area Development as well as the implementation of Urban Land Ceiling Act. He had a long and successful tenure as the Metropolitan Commissioner of MMRDA where his responsibilities included planning and balanced development of the entire region; development of the Bandra-Kurla Complex, complete design and negotiations with the World Bank for Mumbai Urban Transport Project. He has also worked as the Principal Secretary to the Chief Minister of Maharashtra. He was the Additional Chief Secretary to the Government of Maharashtra, when he was appointed the Chairman of the State Public Service Commission by the Governor of Maharashtra.

He is a dynamic leader who has proven ability to ensure a significant improvement in the work culture and efficiency of the department / organization he heads, with his management skill, sharp administrative acumen and determined efforts.

Vinay Bansal
Director

Vinay Bansal has joined as Consultant in May 2006.

An IAS officer of 1969 batch in the Maharashtra Cadre, Vinay Bansal retired as Secretary in Government of India with 35 years of Government service where he held positions as Additional Secretary Commerce; Chairman, Maharashtra State Electricity Board; Principal Secretary to Chief Minister, Secretary (Industry / Planning), Development Commissioner (Industries), Sales Tax Commissioner, Director (Petroleum and Petrochemicals).

Vinay Bansal holds a Master’s degree in Mathematics from the University of Allahabad. He has been a rank holder in first division throughout. He was awarded the Chancellor’s Medal for the Best Student in the Undergraduate Degree course. He topped in the Diploma course in Petroleum Management in Arthur D’Little, MDI, Boston in US and has Diplomas in Business Administration and French as well.

Vinay Bansal represented the Government of India in United Nation’s ESCAP meeting in Bangkok and in Joint Commission meetings with Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Myanmar and Cambodia. He negotiated steel ore purchases of MMTC with Japan and Korea and the Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement between Government of India and Singapore in 8 rounds of talk.

He is interested in reading, chess, bridge, badminton, crosswords, swimming and music.

Ananth Ravi
Director

Ananth Ravi is heading the Resource Raising Group in NMSEZ and is member of the Central Leadership Team, which oversees the planning and execution of NMSEZ & MSEZ. He has 26 years of cross functional experience, out of which 20 years are in the field of Corporate Finance with specialization in Project Finance.

Ananth Ravi started his professional career with Processing Industries and moved to Canara Bank (Merchant Banking Division) in 1986. He worked with Canara Bank for six years and then joined the Corporate Sector. He had held senior positions in Corporate Finance Division of G E Shipping and Hindustan Construction before joining Reliance Industries Ltd in 1997. At RIL, he has effectively executed Resource Raising and Debt Syndication for a number of projects of Reliance Group. He has exposure in Project Conceptualization, Financial Modelling, Project Appraisal, Project Co-ordination, Project Management, MIS, etc.

As Head of the Project Finance Division, he leads the relationships with the bankers, multilateral credit agencies and other equity investors.

Parag Parekh
Director

Parag Parekh is presently Director with MSEZ & NMSEZ and has 25 years of extensive experience in Real Estate and Business Commercial in the field of acquisition, identification, deal sourcing, due diligence, financial restructuring, and fund raising.

During his professional career, Parag Parekh has left his imprint of leadership quality by successfully executing major projects of Reliance like:

The major acquisitions carried out by Reliance under his stewardship are:

He is Chief Executive Officer of Urban Infrastructure Venture Capital Limited and is also a Director of the following ventures:

He has a brilliant academic track record and is a Chartered Accountant - gold medallist (1981) & LLB (1985).