Board of Directors

Dr. Mahendra Mohan Gupta (83 years) is the Non-Executive Chairman of the Company (with effect from October 01, 2023). He was the Chairman and Managing Director of the Company from January 01, 2005 to September 30, 2023 and also held the position of Editorial Director of Dainik Jagran up to September 30, 2023. He has been associated with Jagran Prakashan Limited since its inception.

He holds a Bachelor's degree in Commerce. Dr. Gupta has more than 60 years of experience in the print media industry.

He has held various key positions in the industry including being the Chairman of United News of India ("UNI"), President of The Indian Newspaper Society ("INS"), President of Indian Languages Newspaper Association ("ILNA"), Council Member of Audit Bureau of Circulations, Member of Press Council of India and Member of Film Censor Board of India, Member of the Board and Chairman of Press Trust of India (PTI) besides holding senior honorary positions in various social and cultural organisations. Dr. Gupta was a Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha) from April, 2006 to April, 2012 and is presently member of Executive Committee of INS, the Board of PTI and is also Non-Executive Chairman / Director of Jagran Media Network Investment Private Limited, holding company of the Company. In May, 2018, the Jharkhand Rai University, Ranchi has conferred an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in recognition of his outstanding contribution to media leadership and public life. His work for the cause of society, Indian trade and industry in general and newspaper industry in particular has been authorised by various social, cultural and professional bodies in India.

Mr. Sanjay Gupta (61 years) is a Whole-time Director of the Company and also holds the position of Editor-in-Chief of Dainik Jagran. Mr. Gupta has been a Director of the Company since 1993.

He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Science. He has more than 40 years of experience in the print media industry. Mr. Gupta is a Director of Midday Infomedia Limited, MMI Online Limited, YPO (Delhi Chapter) and Member of Executive Committee of The Indian Newspaper Society. He is also the Chairman of Board of Governors of the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Amritsar. He is also a Director of Jagran Media Network Investment Private Limited, holding company of the Company.

Mr. Dhirendra Mohan Gupta (80 years) is a Whole-time Director of the Company. Mr. Gupta has been a Director of the Company since its inception. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Arts. He has more than 55 years of experience in the print media industry. He is also Director of Jagran Media Network Investment Private Limited, holding company of the Company.

Mr. Sunil Gupta (62 years)is a Whole-time Director of the Company. Mr. Gupta has been a Director of the Company since 1993. He holds a Bachelor’s and a Master’s Degree in Commerce. Mr. Gupta has more than 40 years of experience in the print media industry. He is also a Director of Jagran Media Network Investment Private Limited, holding company of the Company.

Mr. Shailesh Gupta (55 years) is a Whole-time Director of the Company. He has been a Director of JPL since 1994.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in Commerce. Mr. Gupta has around 35 years of experience in the media industry. He has held various key positions in the industry including being the President of The Indian Newspaper Society (INS) and Chairman of Council of Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC). He is currently member of the Governing Board/ Council of INS and ABC, Vice Chairman of Media Research User’s Council (MRUC), Director of Music Broadcast Limited, Rave Real Estate Private Limited, MMI Online Limited and Midday Infomedia Limited. In December, 2017, The Indian Newspaper Society (INS) nominated Mr. Shailesh Gupta as INS Nominee on the Board of WAN-IFRA.

Mr. Sandeep Gupta, (59 years) is a Director and Whole- time Director of the Company w.e.f. May 30, 2022. He has been associated with the Company for about 35 years in various capacities. Mr. Sandeep Gupta holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Ohio University. Mr. Sandeep Gupta is Board member of WAN-IFRA-ASIA, Member of Entrepreneur’s Organization UP Chapter and is also Council Member of Merchants Chamber of Uttar Pradesh.

Mr. Devendra Mohan Gupta (74 years) is a Non-Executive Director of the Company. Mr. Gupta has been a Director of the Company since September 04, 2008.
He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (Mechanical). Mr. Gupta has a vast experience in handling Product Design, Research & Development, Production, Purchase & Sales (Domestic & Overseas). He has over 50 years of working experience. He is pioneer in introducing D.C. Micro Motors technology in the country and Indian Standard Institution (I.S.I.) took Mr. Gupta on its Panel in the year 1979 for D.C. Micro Motors. Mr. Gupta has helped I.S.I. in formulating the specifications for D.C. Micro Motors & bringing out its first Standard IS: 9670 in the year 1980. He is the Managing Director of Jagmini Micro Knit Private Limited, and a Director of Jagran Micro Motors Limited and Jagran Media Network Investment Private Limited, holding company of the Company. He is the recipient of Export Award of Electronics & Computer Software Export Promotion Council (sponsored by the Ministry of Commerce, Govt. of India), New Delhi for the year 1995-96 from Hon’ble Minister of Commerce.

Mr. Shailendra Mohan Gupta (73 years) is a Non-Executive Director of the Company. He has been a Director of the Company since September 04, 2008.

Mr. Shailendra Mohan Gupta holds a Bachelor’s degree in Science. He has over 45 years of experience in administration, sales and marketing fields in Sugar, Alcohol and Electronics industries. He was a Joint Managing Director of Jagran Micro Motors Limited and Managing Director of Shakumbari Sugar & Allied Industries Limited. He is also the Director of Jagran Media Network Investment Private Limited, holding company of the Company, Jagran Micro Motors Limited and Om Multimedia Private Limited.

Mr. Satish Chandra Mishra (61 years) is a Whole-time Director of the Company. Mr. Mishra has been a Director of the Company since October 30, 2013.

Mr. Mishra completed his B.E. (Electronics) in 1983, P.G. Diploma in Human Resource Management and MBA (Major-Marketing Management, Minor-Operations Management). He has over 35 years of experience in Newspaper industry. Mr. Mishra is also the Occupier under Factories Act, 1948 for the printing centres of the Company.

Mr. Vikram Sakhuja (62 years) is an engineer from IIT Delhi and MBA from IIM Calcutta. Mr. Sakhuja has been a Director of the Company since April 15, 2016.

Mr. Sakhuja joined Procter & Gamble in 1988 and held positions in Marketing Research and Media over a period of 8 years. He then joined Coca-Cola where in over 5 years he went on to manage the brand marketing portfolio. Mr. Sakhuja spent a year with the Star TV Network (Newscorp) setting up their marketing department as the Executive VP Marketing for India. From 2002 onwards he was with GroupM. He began his association as the Managing Director of MindShare Fulcrum, went on to become the Managing Director of MindShare South asia and then he was the CEO of GroupM South Asia for 7 years. Thereafter, he took up global role of world-wide CEO for Maxus for two years, following which he was GroupM’s Global Strategic Development Officer, with a remit of driving data and technology deeper into the Media practice. Since 2015, he has partnered with Mr. Sam Balsara and is the Group CEO of Madison Media and OOH. Mr. Sakhuja has served on several industry body boards/ committees including ASCI, ABC, RSCI, BARC, FICCI, ASSOCHAM, AAAI committees with ISA, INS and IBDF. He is also, the Chairman of IRS Technical Committee and Chairman of BARC Technical Committee, MRUCI Board member, ABC Council member, CO-chair of IBDF-AAAI subcommittee on payments and Ad Club past President and Board member. He has consistently been voted one of the top most influential persons in Indian Media by the Economic Times.

Mr. Swarup holds a Bachelor’s degree in Arts and is also a law graduate. He is a Corporate Lawyer and has also been practicing as an Advocate in the Delhi High Court and the Supreme Court for about 55 years. Mr. Shailendra Swarup is a Director of JK Paper Ltd., Bengal & Assam Company Ltd., Gujarat Fluorochemicals Ltd., Vis Legis Consult Pvt. Ltd., Sterling Tools Limited, Kangaroo Properties Pvt. Ltd. and Dev Valley Devcon Pvt. Ltd. He is also Member of the Audit Committee of Gujarat Flurochemicals Ltd and Sterling Tools Limited. He is also a Director of Xfinite Global PLC. Mr. Swarup was a Member of the Task Force on Corporate Governance constituted by the Confederation of Indian Industry. He was a member of Ganguly Committee constituted by the Reserve Bank of India in the year 2002 on Corporate Governance of public sector Banks and financial institution with particular emphasis on role of Independent Directors.

Ms. Karani was appointed as an Independent Director of the Company w.e.f. November 13, 2019. Till March 2023, Divya was the Chief Executive Officer, Dentsu South Asia. Prior to that she served as chief executive officer of Dentsu X India and Dentsu media for 9 years. Credited with building Dentsu among the top three networks in India and Dentsu X as the fastest growing agency for three consecutive years, as per RECMA 2022. Divya also represented India on Dentsu’s Global Social Impact Steering Committee. Divya has over 3 decades of professional experience. Working with global and local organizations, in South Asia, London & APAC. She has worked at agencies like Grey, Ogilvy, MediaCom, MEC (India & Singapore), Reliance ADA Group and Hindustan Times Media. She has won and successfully run media mandates, for large Indian and global clients. Divya is an active participant in the larger media industry. She has served on Media Research Users Council Board 2014-2017 & 2006-2010 and also played the role of championing Radio as Chairperson, MRUC Radio Committee. She has been a Judge on International News Media Association-INMA Global Awards, Spikes Asia Jury 2022 and Cannes Media Lion Jury in 2004 and 2022. She has also taken on the role of National President, Brand & Marketing, Women’s Indian Chamber of Commerce & Industry. Divya holds a Bachelor’s degree in Commerce and Economics; Sydenham College, Mumbai. Divya has been recognized as one of the top five, among 50 Most Influential Women of 2022 in advertising, media, and marketing by the prestigious Impact magazine. She has had the distinction of being on this top 50 list for the past 10 years. Divya was also awarded the ‘Agency Leader of the Year’ by Mumbrella Asia Awards 2019.

Ms. Anita Nayyar (62 years) holds a Bachelor’s degree in Microbiology and has a PG in Advertising and Marketing Management & Business Management along with Masters in Management. Ms. Nayyar has an experience of 35+ years in the Advertising, Marketing & Media industry having worked for top advertising agencies like Saatchi & Saatchi, Ogilvy & Mather, Initiative Media, Media Com, Starcom Worldwide & Havas Media Group. She has also worked with leading publishers like The Times of India & Zee5.

Ms. Nayyar was voted the 2nd most influential media person in India by The Brand Equity Survey in 2006 and has always been in the top list of the influential media personalities ever since. She is on the list of Impact top 50 women in Media, Marketing and Advertising and also the top 100 by Campaign Asia in APAC, along with APAC VISION LEADER of the Year 2019 & APAC CEO of the Year 2018 by Campaign Asia Women Leading Change. She has immense respect and credibility in the industry and has been recently conferred with Women Disruptors 2023 Life Time Achievement Award 2023 and 20 Most Influential Women in India in Marketing & Advertising 2023.

Ms. Nayyar was the COO-Media, Branding & Communication at Patanjali Ayurved Limited, largest Indian FMCG Company till January 03, 2024 and also has been on the list of Most Admired Marketing leader and Most Influential Brand Leader. Ms. Nayyar was also Non-Executive Independent Director of Jagran Prakashan Limited from 2014 to 2019 and she is also the Non-Executive, Independent Director of Music Broadcast Limited and Midday Infomedia Limited, subsidiaries of the Company.

Mr. Hormusji N. Cama (63 years) is currently the Chairman and Managing Director at Mumbai Samachaar, Mumbai, Asia’s oldest newspaper in any language and has been instrumental in the promotion and spread of Indian languages and in particular Gujarati, the language of the Mumbai Samachar. Mr. Cama holds a Bachelor’s of Science Degree from the University of Mumbai.

He has a rich experience of more than 40 years of experience in the Print Media industry. He has been at the forefront of the newspaper industry and at the helm of several industry bodies.

He has served as the Chairman of Press Trust of India, Audit Bureau of Circulations, Media Research Users Council, Readership Survey Council of India, Commonwealth Press Union (India Chapter) and Indian Newspaper Society. He is the nominated member of the Press Council of India. He’s also been the Former President of Indian Newspaper Society (INS).

On the eve of the Republic Day 2024, the President of India Smt. Droupadi Murmu conferred Padam Bhushan to Mr. Hormusji N. Cama in the field of Literature and Education.

Mr. Cama has been the recipient of numerous awards and honors for his contribution to promotion of Indian languages particularly Gujarati.

Ms. Kemisha Soni (53 years) is the Managing Partner at GDK & Associates, Chartered Accountants, Indore. She is currently ICAI Central Council Member for 3rd consecutive term since 2016 and serves as Chairperson, Vice-Chairperson and Convenor of various committees of ICAI viz. Vice-Chairperson of Audit Committee of ICAI. Served as Vice-Chairperson Financial Reporting Review Board, a technical board that reviews quality of financial statements. She is also ICAI Nominated member to the State Audit Advisory Board of Office of the Principal Accountant General (Audit), Delhi.

She has 25 years of experience in Accounting, Audit Taxation, Forensic Auditing, CSR consulting, Risk Management Audit, Internal Audit and Management Audit. She is also a qualified legal professional (LLB) and had acted as Regional Arbitrator at BSE and NSE.

She is also a Public Interest Director on the Board of Multi Commodity Exchange Clearing Corporation Limited, Board Member of Institute of Social Auditors of India, nominated Member of National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, nominated member of the Project Management Monitoring Committee under the Welfare of Minorities and Development Department (Govt. of Assam), Member of Investor Grievance Redressal Committee, BSE Limited, Convenor-Group on Overseas Networking, SEBI Nominated Director of Madhya Pradesh Stock Exchange. She is currently an Independent Director on the Board of Poonawalla Fincorp Limited, XBRL, India as well as Ujjain Smart City Limited. She was also nominated to the SMembership Development Committee of XBRL International. she is also the Vice- Chairperson of Women Members Excellence Committee and Committee on Financial Markets and Investors’ Protection.

She has an extensive international exposure as currently she is a member of Public Sector Advisory Group (PSAG) of Confederation of Asian & Pacific Accountants (CAPA). She had also served as Observer, International Ethics Standards Board for Accountants (IESBA) at the prestigious International Federation of Accountants (IFAC) New York and held the position of Technical Advisor at IESBA New York. Additionally, she has also served as a Nominated Member Committee on Governmental and Public Sector Enterprises Accounting of South Asian Federation of Accountants (SAFA) for the year 2022-23,2023-24.

She has also served on SAFA Committees on Professional Ethics and Independence, Small and Medium Practices for two years in a row from 2016 to 2018 and was Chairperson Women Leadership Committee in the year 2018-19 and 2019-20. Ms. Soni is passionate about diversity initiatives and has served as Chairperson of the Women Member Committees at both ICAI and SAFA levels.

Mr. Pramod Agarwal (70 years) is presently the Managing Director at Raama Paper Mills Limited, listed at National Stock Exchange of India Limited (NSE) and BSE Limited, President - Indian Agro & Recycled Paper Mills Association (IARPMA) and Trustee - IMS Group of Educational Institutions.

He holds a PhD in Management, a Bachelor in Law and a Bachelor in Commerce.

Mr. Agarwal has more than 40 years of diversified industry experience in Paper, Iron & Steel, Sugar, Hotel & Education as an industrialist and social activist.

Mr. Shaalin Tandon (46 years) a distinguished corporate executive, strategic consultant, and successful entrepreneur based in Mumbai and is presently a consultant at Reliance Industries Limited, Mumbai in the Chairman’s office (acting as Vice-President) & Co-founder, OVVIO Ltd (a cutting-edge tech startup in London). He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University, USA, a Master’s degree in Wireless and Satellite Systems from the University of Bath, UK and is an alumnus of the Asian International Executive Program at INSEAD’s Singapore campus.

He has 2 decades of experience in diverse industries with the Reliance Industries Limited as corporate executive, strategic consultant, and a successful entrepreneur. At Reliance, Mr. Tandon has spearheaded critical projects in real estate, infrastructure, and corporate affairs. His crowning achievement includes leading the development of India’s first global-scale Convention & Exhibition Centre at Bandra-Kurla Complex (over a $2B Project). His expertise has also been instrumental in shaping early years of Reliance’s telecommunications and life sciences ventures at their critical junctures.

He served as the country’s youngest Honorary Consul (Mumbai) for the Republic of Maldives from 2011 to 2019. During his tenure, he significantly bolstered investment, tourism, and diplomatic relations between India and the Maldives. His semi diplomatic roles required constant interactions across various industry leaders.

He has served on the Board of Trustees and as Additional Secretary for Sitapur Eye Hospital, one of India’s oldest and most respected eye-care institutions in Uttar Pradesh.

He actively leads philanthropic efforts through his family-run Shri Hriday Narain Dhawan Charitable Trust that focuses on critical areas such as disaster relief, support for underprivileged women, renewable energy initiatives, and medical assistance.

Mr. Tarun Sawhney (51 years) is the Vice Chairman & Managing Director of Triveni Engineering & Industries Ltd (TEIL). One of India’s largest fully integrated producers of ethanol, sugar, and bioenergy, TEIL is also a pioneer in the development of industrial gearboxes, naval defence solutions, and water treatment projects. In addition, Tarun serves as Chairman of Sir Shadi Lal Enterprises Ltd., a TEIL subsidiary that manufactures sugar and ethanol.

Tarun is a director of Triveni Turbine Limited, a global industrial steam turbine manufacturer in the range of 0-100 MW. He is also a director of Triveni Energy Solutions Limited, that provides energy solutions. He also serves as an Independent Director on the board of Centum Electronics Limited, a leading manufacturer and designer of electronics systems.

Tarun has played a pivotal role in the sugar and bioenergy industries, having served as the President of the Indian Sugar Mills Association (ISMA) and Chairman of the Indian Sugar Exim Corporation Limited. He currently holds key positions in the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), serving as a member of the National Council, the Chairman of the Agricultural Council, and the Co-Chairman of the National Committee on Bioenergy. He is also a member of the advisory board of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR)

His significant contributions to the sugar industry have earned him widespread recognition, exemplified by the prestigious Industry Excellence Award conferred by the former Hon’ble President of India, Smt. Pratibha Rao Patil.

Tarun has an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (USA) and holds a Master’s degree from Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge (UK). He is also a past board member in the Indian Public School’s Society and earlier served as the President of the Doon School Old Boys’ Society (DSOBS).

In addition to his professional and academic pursuits, Tarun is committed to philanthropy and community welfare. He serves as a trustee of the Tirath Ram Shah Charitable Hospital in New Delhi which is one of India’s oldest charitable hospitals. He actively participates on the board of The Triveni Foundation, which focuses on healthcare and education in North India.

Tarun’s interest in art and culture is evident through his roles as a member of the International Advisory Council of the Tate Modern (UK) and the International Leadership Council of the New Museum, New York. He was also intronised as a Chevalier du Tastevin in 2023.