Vijay M. Crishna

Mr. Vijay Crishna has joined the Board of the Company as an Executive Director on 27th September, 1990. He has been re-designated as a Non-Executive Director of the Company from 4th March, 2021. He is a B.A. (Economics) from St. Stephen's College, University of Delhi. He joined Lawkim Ltd., a bankrupt light engineering company taken over by the Godrej Group at the behest of N.P. Godrej in 1977.After eight years of management experience in Kolkata and five years in the advertising industry in Mumbai, he was able to help turn it around. Mr. Crishna is also a Director of Godrej Industries and Godrej Agrovet. He serves as a Trustee of the Bombay Scottish Orphanage Society and is a member of the Advisory Board of the Institute for Technology and Management, Navi Mumbai, the President's International Advisory Board Colorado College and on the Advisory Panel of the New Zealand Trade and Enterprise Beachhead Programme.In 1991, Mr. Crishna established the Naoroji Godrej Centre for Plant Research at Shindewadi, Satara District, which researches and propagates rare and endangered species of medicinal plants endemic to the Western Ghats. A Life Member of The Himalayan Club since 1973 - and now its Honorary Secretary - he has trekked in the Garhwal, Sikkim, Ladakh, Nepal and Tibet. He has been active in theatre since 1965 in Delhi, Kolkata and Mumbai.