Sanjiv Goenka (Bengali: সন্জিভ গেন্কা), is the Vice-Chairman RPG Enterprises. On 13 July 2011 Sanjiv Goenka unveiled the new group brand identity titled, RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group. The scion of a family which has been doing business in Kolkata (earlier called Calcutta) since the 1820s, Sanjiv looks after the Rs 4000 crore power and retail giant CESC and the group’s entertainment venture Saregama India Ltd (earlier called HMV). He has built up the group’s retail business into a Rs 1000 crore entity spearheaded by the Spencer’s retail chain.
Beyond these consumer businesses, he leads Phillips Carbon Black (today the world’s eighth largest carbon black manufacturer and India’s largest exporter) and the group’s plantations company, Harrisons Malayalam.
In 2009-10, Goenka assumed charge as the president of the All India Management Association (AIMA). His focus for the year is on ‘Innovation’ which he feels reflects the restless energy and creativity of young Indians, and can change the lives of communities.
Under his stewardship, CESC has helped remove power cuts from Kolkata, once infamous for its 10-hour daily blackouts. CESC power plants earn carbon credits and have won several awards for their success in combating waste water, fly ash and environmental pollution.
Goenka brought Noida Power Company Ltd (in the National Capital Region) into the group fold and has taken the group into mining and exploration.
Phillips Carbon Black is currently setting up a unit in Vietnam. The plantations operations are setting new benchmarks in the industry at a time when many organized sector players are exiting from the sector.
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Goenka was a member of the Prime Minister’s Council on Trade & Industry. He is currently honorary consul of Canada in Kolkata. He is also the Chairman of Board of Directors of Woodlands Medical Centre Ltd., a premier hospital in Kolkata, at present.
Goenka is behind two major initiatives in high-end education: the Asian Institute of Power Management (AIPM) to train power sector service professionals in collaboration with Singapore Power and a premier management school in New Delhi, IMI (International management Institute).
He was the former chairman of the Board of Governors of Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, where under his leadership, the institute achieved progress in research and infrastructure creation.
Goenka became President of the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) in April 2001, the youngest ever President of CII at only 39 years of age. At 41, was appointed Chairman of the Board of Governors of Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (IIT-KGP), succeeding his father.
The younger son of RPG Group founder Dr. Rama Prasad Goenka, Sanjiv Goenka graduated from Kolkata’s St Xavier’s College and retains an attachment with his alma mater. He is married to Preeti, and they have a daughter, Avarna, and a son, Shashwat.
As man who accepts and respects the fact that there are people with great talent and intellect, Sanjiv maintains he has much to achieve. He is deeply spiritual and when faced with a difficult business decision, and instinctively says a silent prayer.
“I pray everyday and I do not do it merely for compliance.”
In his personal domain, he is passionate about food, music and art, and Hindi movies. He loves Kolkata and the people, and would like to see a cleaner city with better roads.
Since its establishment in 1820 as a family business by Ramdutt Goenka, the Goenkas have been into banking, textiles, tea and jute. Today, it is a player in domains like power generation and distribution, retail, information technology, entertainment, power transmission infrastructure, chemicals, tires, plantations and life sciences. Dr R P Goenka established RPG in 1979 with turnover of Rs 70 crore. Turnover today stands at Rs 16,000 crore, from 20-plus companies across eight business sectors and 40,000 employees.
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