He has approximately 42 years of experience in the publishing and newspaper business and has been engaged in the running of our organization for over four decades, having quality of strategic management and business leadership. Currently he is also the Chairman of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry of the Madhya Pradesh. He has recently been awarded the Rajeev Gandhi Life time Achievement Award in Journalism. Besides, he has been recipient of various awards in past and has been held as within 50 most powerful Business houses by India Today Magazine in 2003, 2006 and 2007.

He is responsible for our long term vision and monitoring our Company's performance and devising the overall business plans. Under his Dynamic leadership with clear future vision, the company has progressed to become one of largest read newspaper of the country, with multiple states with PAN India presence, in 3 languages. Due to his agressive leadership qualities, the company is considered as one of the fastest growing media groups by various analyst and investors, which has spread from 1 state in 1995 to 12 states, from 5 editions to 50 Editions.In his leadership adapting the innovative door to door conatct launch process , company has achieved status of no.1 from day 1 across it's launch markets. India Today Magazine has adjudged our company in top 50 most influential business houses in 2003, followed by in 2006 and 2007.

He is also an active member of INS. He holds the distinction of being the youngest chairman of INS for Madhya Pradesh region. He was also been awarded the Entrepreneur of the Year, for the year 2006 by Ernst & Young. Further, he was also award recipient for "Outstanding Entrepreneur" in AEPA ( Asia Pacific Entrepreneur awards) recently. He was the recipient of Divya Bhaskar , the leading Gujarati Newspaper from DB Corp Ltd as the only regional newspaper of India to win 'Best in Print' (Bronze) , an honor bestowed by IFRA Asia Pacific awards held in Chennai. Best in Print is about the quality and consistency in printing demonstrated by a publication through a period of time.

Besides, he has also attended a programme on leadership's best practices at Harvard University. He has over 13 years of experience in the publishing business and has been with our organization for same number of years. He heads entire production and information and technology department of our Company. Besides, he is also heading the Radio Business which is under one of our subsidiary Business. He is award recipient from Prime Minister for contribution to Indian Language Journalism.

Mr. Ajay Piramal heads the Piramal Enterprises Group engaged in pharmaceuticals, glass containers for pharma, cosmetics and perfumery industry and financial services. He was a member of Prime Minister's task force on Pharmaceuticals and Knowledge based Industries in 2002, member of Prime Minister's Council for Trade and Commerce in 2003 and member of the Board of Trade constituted by the Ministry of Commerce in the year 2002. He is presently the member of the World Economic Forum's Governors' Forum on Healthcare and Chairman of "Pratham", an organisation which takes initiative to provide education to underprivileged children in India.

He has been on the board of various organisations. He was the executive director of Central Bank of India, director of Cent Bank Financial and Custodial Services Limited, director of New India Assurance Company Limited, chairman and managing director of Vijaya Bank, chairman and managing director of Central Bank of India, chairman of Cent Bank Home Finance Limited, director of Agricultural Finance Corporation Limited, director of Master Card, Asia/Pacific Board, trustee of Unit Trust of India. He has also served overseas as director of Bank of Baroda (Kenya) Limited, a subsidiary of Bank of Baroda and director in I.B.U. International Finance Limited, Hong Kong.

He has over 27 years of experience in the field of advertising. He began his career at Ogilvy and Mather Private Limited in 1982 and is currently the executive chairman of the company. Mr. Piyush Pandey is the only Indian to have won a double gold at Cannes and a triple grand prize at London International Advertising Awards held in 2002.

He began his career in Hindustan Lever Limited (formerly known as Brooke Bond Lipton India Limited), and was in charge of sales, 142 distribution and brand management of the company. He also worked in Tata Coffee Limited and was responsible for their brand management for over eight years. He also worked in Zip Telecom Limited as Chief Operating Officer from 2000 to 2001.

He has over 26 years of experience in non-ferrous metallurgical industry and is presently handling the activities related to global sourcing of raw materials of his business in manufacture of nonferrous metals. He was the vice-president of BIR Brussels, the International Authority in Non- Ferrous Metals for global trends in the industry from 1996 to 2008.