Analjit Singh
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Founder, Leeu Collection
Non-Executive Chairman Vodafone India (till 2018)
Analjit Singh | |
|---|---|
| Born | 11 January 1954 |
| Alma mater | The Doon School Shri Ram College of Commerce Delhi University Boston University |
| Occupations | Founder, Max Group Founder, Leeu Collection Non-Executive Chairman Vodafone India (till 2018) |
| Children | 3 |
| Parent | Bhai Mohan Singh |
| Awards | Padma Bhushan (2011) Knight Commander of the Order of Queen Isabella (2014) |
Analjit Singh (born 11 January 1954) is an Indian entrepreneur and businessman who is founder and chairman of Max Group,[1] a conglomerate with interests in life insurance, healthcare,[2] and real estate. He is also the founder of Leeu Collection,[3] an international collection of boutique hotels.[4] He was also the Non-Executive Chairman of Vodafone India.[5]
Analjit Singh was born in New Delhi, the son of Bhai Mohan Singh and Avtar Kaur. His father was the founder of Ranbaxy Laboratories.[6] Singh was the youngest of three sons.[7]
Singh spent his formative years in The Doon School. He then studied economics at Shri Ram College of Commerce, University of Delhi.[8][9][10] before going for his MBA at Boston University.[11]
Career
Singh served as the chairman of Vodafone India from February 2012 to August 2018.[12] He has been the key spokesperson of Vodafone in India and was the main representative of the company during the Vodafone's retrospective taxation controversy with the Government of India.[13][14]
Singh is founder of Leeu Collection, an international collection of boutique Hotels in South Africa, Europe and Asia.[3][15][16]
Singh serves on the Founder Executive Board of Indian School of Business.[17] He is the patron of Max Institute of Healthcare Management, one of the partner institutes at the ISB's Mohali campus.[18] He served as Chairman of Mohali Campus Advisory Board of ISB.[19]
He is on the board of Sofina SA, a Belgian holding company, headquartered in Brussels which invests in several industrial sectors.[20]
He served on the board of Tata Global Beverages and resigned in December 2016.[21] He had voted against the resolution moved for Cyrus Mistry's ouster as Chairman of the company.[21][22] In his resignation letter he said that he lamented at the overall lack of transparency surrounding the sacking of Cyrus Mistry.[23][24]
He served as the Chairman of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Roorkee,[25] from 2011 to 2014. He serves on the Prime Minister's UK-India CEO Forum,[26] where he is the co-chair of Ease of Doing Business Committee along with Sir Martin Sorrell, CEO of WPP plc. He has also served as a member of Prime Minister's Indo-US CEO Forum.[27] He has served as Chairman of Confederation of Indian Industry's (CII) national committee on insurance and pensions.[28]
Diplomatic associations
Singh serves as the Honorary Consul General of Republic of San Marino in India from November 2007.[29] He also served as the co-chair of Prabodhan, a forum for facilitating engagement between prominent European and Indian.[30]
