DCM NOUVELLE - Key Persons
Dr. Bharat Ram was born in Delhi, the son of Lala Shri Ram, who founded Delhi Cloth & General Mills. Dr. Bharat Ram completed his preliminary education at Modern School New Delhi. He graduated from St. Stephen's College, Delhi with a degree in economics. After his graduation in 1935, he joined Delhi Cloth & General Mills as an apprentice and rose to the position of chairman and managing director in 1958.
Dr. Bharat Ram founded Shriram Fibres (SRF Ltd) in 1970 . He served on various government committees and wrote two books: Glimpses of Industrial India and From Istanbul to Vienna. He also became the chairman of Indian Airlines. He received the Padma Bhushan award in 1972.
He is regarded as one of the most influential leaders of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry, which he headed in 1965. He had earlier been the president of the PHDCCI. He also became the first Asian president of International Chamber of Commerce in 1969.
Dr. Bharat Ram was a passionate golfer and helped found the Indian Golf Union.
Job Titles:
- Independent and Non - Executive Director
Dr. Meenakshi Nayar is an Independent and Non-Executive Director on the Board of the Company. She holds Master degree in Psychology from M S University, Vadodara and FPM(Ph.D.) from IIM Ahmedabad in Organizational Behavior. She is Founder Chairperson of ETASHA Society, a not-for-profit organization that provides market-oriented employability and vocational skills to disadvantaged Indian youth. She has worked for more than two decades in Human Resource Management and Development in the corporate sector, involving training and development of ‘grown ups'. She is Founder of EduServe Consultants working with Adolescents in schools in the areas of Sexuality Education, Career Guidance, and Life Skills Development.
Dr. Vinay Bharat Ram, whole time Director hails from the family of pioneer industrialist Lala Sri Ram, educated at the universities of Delhi, Michigan (Ann Arbor) and Harvard, holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the university of Delhi. Taught at IIM-Ahmedabad, IIT-Delhi and FMS, University of Delhi.
Has authored numerous papers in Indian and foreign journals. His books titled 'Import Substitution, Exchange Rates & Economic Development' and 'The Theory of The Global Firm' have been published by Oxford University Press. Professor Amartya Sen, Noble laureate in Economics has called the latter 'an imaginative book with a bearing on pure theory as well as real world'.
Dr. Vinay Bharat Ram is a Vice President of Governing Council of Shri Ram Centre for Industrial Relations & Human Resources and Shri Ram Centre For Performing Arts. He has been working as a Past President of The Harvard Club of Delhi and Manufacturers' Association of Information Technology. Ex-member of International Council of the Asia Society, New York, U.S.A. He has been the Past President of Northern India Textile Mills Association.
Dr. Vinay Bharat Ram has been honoured with the National Citizen's Award for Entrepreneurship in 1990 from the Prime Minister of India.Also received National Excellence Award for Art & Culture for 1996-97 from T. P. Jhunjhunwala Foundation.
Mr. Hemant Bharat Ram hails from the pioneer industrialist family of Lala Shri Ram, Dr. Bharat Ram and Dr. Vinay Bharat Ram of DCM Group. Educated at the Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA, USA, he holds a Master's degree in Industrial Administration and a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics and Computer Science. He started his career with DCM Data Product (Now DCM Data Systems) in 1991 and was later appointed as Executive Director of the IT Division of DCM (DCM Data Systems and DCM Technologies Ltd). After successfully turning around the IT Division, he was appointed as Vice Chairman of DCM Engineering Ltd, Ropar who made record profit under his leadership. He is past President of Manufacturers' Association of Information Technology (MAIT), and Ex- member of National Council of Confederation of Indian Industries (CII). Presently, he is a Member of Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), USA and Institute Of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE), USA. He is in Management Committee of Shri Ram Centre for Performing Arts.
Mr. Jitendra Tuli served as the Chairman of DCM Ltd. from December 20, 2011 to January 29, 2016 and served as its Managing Director from December 20, 2012 to January 29, 2016. Mr. Tuli is an Editorial and Communications Consultant at World Health Organization and served as its Public Information Officer for 19 years until 1996. He joined IBM as a Communication Officer in 1971. He started his career in Journalism with Hindustan Times in 1964. He served as the first English Newscaster from Delhi Doordarshan in December 1971 and kept viewers informed of the Bangladesh war. He is deeply involved in the work for the less privileged ones as the trustee of Amarjyoti Charitable Trust and as founder member of Cancer -Sehyog. He is a founder member of Cancer Sahyog. He serves as a Director of DCM Engineering Limited. Mr. Tuli served as a Director of DCM Ltd. from December 27, 2006 to January 29, 2016. Mr. Tuli holds a Bachelors degree in Commerce from Shrirarn College of Commerce. Mr. Tuli obtained his Post Graduate Diploma from London School of Journalism and attended the School of Public Relations and Communications at Boston University, USA.
Mr. Kulbir Singh serves on the Board of Directors of the Company as an Independent and Non-Executive Director. Mr. Singh attended The Doon School in DehraDun, India, and then went on to earn an Honours degree in Economics from St. Joseph's College in North Point, Darjeeling. In early 1967, he joined Grindlays Bank. He worked for Grindlays Bank, a century-old British institution, for nearly 30 years.
Mr. Singh spent one-third of his time in London, Hong Kong, and Dubai. Between 2001 and 2003, he served as an advisor to Rothschild Bank AG for India and the Middle East, and for five years to Monument Capital Group LLC, a Washington, DC-based private equity firm focusing on homeland security.
Mr. Singh has also served on the boards of public and private companies ranging from chemicals/petrochemicals to information technology. He has a mix of leadership and advisory experience, with a focus on business strategy, financial management, and compliance, all while maintaining the highest level of integrity.
Job Titles:
- Non - Executive Director on the Board
Mr. Rakesh Goel is Non-Executive Director on the Board of the Company. He is MBA from Punjab Agricultural University and has served various organizations at top management level in a span of 4 decades of his career. He served at HAFED for 10 years before joining DCM Group in 1990 and has been working at various positions across textile business. He has well rounded experience with multiple functions exposure (purchasing, marketing, plant operations & projects implementation among others. He has end to end experience of all textile operations.
Mr. Vivek Chhachhi serves on the Board of Directors of the Company as an Independent and Non-Executive Director. Mr. Chhachhi earned a Master's degree in Management Studies from the Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies, University of Mumbai and a B.Sc. degree in Computer Science from St. Stephen's College, Delhi University.
Mr. Chhachhi had two years of experience as an equity research analyst at a Citi-affiliated brokerage firm, Citicorp Securities & Investments Limited. Mr. Chhachhi was a Director with CVCI, where he had about 15 years of investing experience. Mr. Chhachhi worked with CVCI to identify, manage, and exit a large number of companies in a variety of industries, including IT, pharmaceutical and specialty chemicals, IT enabled services, financial services, auto, metals and mining, infrastructure, oil and gas services, media, and textiles.
Mr. Chhachhi has served on the boards of Thyrocare, Nueclear, Thyrocare Gulf, Sutures, Natco, and Veeda, among others. Mr. Chhachhi has also served on the boards of several CVCI portfolio companies, including i-FLEX, Jubilant Organosys, Sasken Technologies, RelQ Software, Newgen Software, Himadri Industries, and Techno Electric, IVRCL, Perlecan Pharma, International Tractors, Jai Balaji, and Globe Capital, among others.
Shri Ram was among the earliest industrialists who could foresee the usefulness of organized approach by the country's business community. Moreover, in seeking growth for his enterprises, Shriram scrupulously pursued a policy which had its foundation based on intellectual integrity, devotion to duty, and a liberal humanism directed towards the common weal of all sections of Indian society.
Sir Shri Ram was an eminent and outstanding industrialist and one of the trend-setting visionary leaders of the Indian business community. He possessed the rare business perceptions and uncommon entrepreneurial acumen for setting up industries.
Sir Shri Ram began as a humble worker and went on to set up one of India's largest business houses - the DCM Group. Born into a family of modest means, Shri Ram, in the 79 years of his life, built an industrial empire manufacturing a vast variety of goods like - textiles, sugar, chemicals, vanaspati, pottery, fans, sewing machines, electric motors and capacitors.
In 1909 , Shri Ram joined DCM at the age of 25 years. Lala Shri Ram's earlier entrepreneurial initiatives had ended in debacles. It was in 1917 at DCM at the end of the First World War that he got the opportunity to choose entrepreneurial alternatives. It was Madan Mohan Lall and Shri Ram's managerial initiatives in expanding the Company's government business during the First World War that brought about the recovery in DCM. He came in to prominence as he wanted DCM to expand. Along the years he diversified into many other businesses also.
His dealings with the workers throw into relief another aspect of his personality. Unlike other industrialists of his stature he would communicate with the working class. In a society as stratified as the Indian, society he has the unusual gift of looking at the process of industrialization through the workers eyes.
At a time when the country faced problems of multiple dimensions, the biggest challenge before the first Prime Minister Pt. J. L. Nehru was to lay foundation of industrially self-reliant India. Sir Shriram left no stone unturned in realizing the dreams of independent India by setting up of new lines of industrial units with the highest standards of quality. He took lead and brought the entrepreneurs of that period together by forming institutions like CII, FICCI and PHDCCI, which today play a key role in the growth of Modern India. His election in 1930 at the age of 46 as the President of FICCI showed his national status.