PI Leadership
Chairman Emeritus
Members of Board of Directors
Mr. Narayan K. Seshadri
Non-Executive Chairperson
Mr. Narayan K Seshadri, with more than 42 years of distinguished corporate career, is a qualified Chartered Accountant who had started his business, consultancy career with Arthur Anderson. Joining KPMG afterwards, Mr. Seshadri rose to the position of Managing Partner of its business advisory practice in India. Mr. Seshadri had also worked with some large Fortune 500/ FTSE 100 companies to small start-ups in various international jurisdictions.
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Mr. Mayank Singhal
Vice Chairman and Managing Director
Having joined PI Industries in 1996, Mr. Mayank Singhal, an Engineering and Management Graduate from UK, rose to become its Joint Managing Director in 2004, its Managing Director and CEO in 2009 and subsequently PI’s Vice Chairperson and Managing Director from 2019.
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Mr. Rajnish Sarna
Joint Managing Director
Mr. Rajnish Sarna (DIN: 06429468) is a qualified Chartered Accountant and has a diverse experience of over 3 decades in the areas of Business Development & Strategy, Customer Relationship Mgt., Operations, Finance, Risk Mgt, Legal Contracting & Compliances, Investor relations, Information Technology and Process Reengineering, etc.
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Mr. Arvind Singhal
Non Independent - Non Executive Director
Mr. Arvind Singhal is a seasoned entrepreneur with over four decades of diverse experience spanning industries such as mining and mineral processing, agrochemicals and specialized chemicals, and electronic metering systems.
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Dr. T.S. Balganesh
Independent Director
Holding a PhD in Medical Microbiology from University of Calcutta, Dr T.S. Balganesh completed his post-doctoral research at Brookhaven National Lab, USA and Max Planck Institute, Germany. He has also been awarded an honorary doctoral degree from the University of Uppsala, Sweden. Possessing more than three decades of experience in antibacterial drug discovery, Dr Balganesh served as Head of Research at AstraZeneca’s antibacterial drug discovery unit in Bangalore before rising to become the Managing Director and member of the board of AstraZeneca India Pvt. Ltd. in the past.
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Ms. Lisa Brown
Independent Director
Ms. Lisa J. Brown (DIN: 07053317), holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Law from the University of Derby and is a registered Trade Mark Attorney.
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Mr. Shobinder Duggal
Independent Director
Mr. Shobinder Duggal holds a bachelor’s degree in economics (Hons.) from St. Stephens College, Delhi University and is a member of Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.
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Ms. Pia Singh
Independent Director
Ms. Pia Singh is a graduate from Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania, U.S.A., with a degree in Finance. She has diverse business experience of over three decades. She is currently a Director on the Board of DLF and the Chairperson of the CSR Committee of DLF. Prior to that, she was the Chairperson of DLF Retail Developers Limited and Director of DT Cinemas Limited.
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Mr. Rafael Del Rio Donoso
Non Independent - Non Executive Director
Mr. Rafael Del Rio Donoso is an Agricultural Engineer from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. He has other professional qualifications as under:
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Members of Leadership Team
Dr. Atul Kumar Gupta
CEO, CSM - AgChem
Mr. Prashant Hegde
CEO – AgChem Brands
Dr. Alexander Klausener
Project Lead - Research
Mr. Jiro Mochizuki
President - PI Japan
Mr. Sanjay Agarwal
Group Chief Financial Officer (‘KMP’)
Mr. Pradeep Kumar Jain
Head Operations
Mr. Atanu Roy Chief Information Officer
Mr. Arunabha Raychaudhuri Head- Supply Chain Management
Mr. Balasubramaniam Aiyaswamy
Chief People Officer
Mr. Salil Singhal
Chairman Emeritus
Mr. Salil Singhal (DIN: 00006629) has been spearheading the Company on its growth path since 1979 and currently serves as Chairman Emeritus on Board of PI. He is credited with Company’s early adoption of a global outlook and ingraining a strong value system within the Company. He has been involved in shaping many agriculture-related policy issues and has addressed many Seminars and Conferences both in India and abroad. He also serves on the Boards of Wolkem India Ltd., Historic Resorts Hotels Pvt. Ltd., The Lake Palace Hotels and Motels Pvt. Ltd., Secure Meters Ltd., Somany Ceramics Ltd., PILL Finance and Investment Ltd., Mahindra World City (Jaipur) Ltd. and Indraprastha Medical Corporation Limited.
Highly reputed and a renowned name in the Agro Chemical Industry, he is Co-Chairman of CII’s National Council on Agriculture besides being a member of its National Council for the past 8 years. Mr. Singhal was the Chairman of the Pesticides Association of India (rechristened Crop Care Federation of India) for 20 years and is its Chairman Emeritus. In the past, he has been a member of the Executive Committee of FICCI and also the Chairman of its Environment Committee for 5 years, the Chairman of the Northern Region of CII and the Chairman of the National Council for MSMEs.
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