Pirojsha Godrej is the Executive Chairperson of Godrej Properties, Godrej Housing Finance, and Godrej Fund Management and a Non-Executive Director at Godrej Consumer Products and Godrej Agrovet. Pirojsha graduated from the Wharton School of Business in 2002, completed his Masters in International Affairs from Columbia University in 2004, and an MBA from Columbia Business School in 2008. Pirojsha joined GPL in 2004, became an Executive Director in 2008, and was appointed CEO of Godrej Properties in 2012.  He has led the company through a phase of rapid growth.  In Financial Year 2016, Godrej Properties for the first time became India's #1 publicly listed real estate developer by residential sales, a position it has retained for the past 5 years.  

Under Pirojsha’s leadership, Godrej Properties has been at the forefront of the sustainable development movement; in 2013, GPL received an award from former President of India, APJ Abdul Kalam for being one of the companies in India from across sectors to have driven the green building movement.  Godrej Properties in 2016 was ranked #2 in Asia and #5 in the World in terms of its sustainability performance in the Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark Report.  The Indian Green Building Council (IGBC) has awarded Pirojsha the IGBC Green Champion Award 2016 for his contribution to the sustainability of India's built environment.

In 2017, Pirojsha was appointed the Executive Chairman of Godrej Properties.  He also assumed the role of Executive Chairman of Godrej Fund Management.  In 2019, Pirojsha founded and became the Executive Chairman of Godrej Housing Finance. He has traveled to over 90 countries and every continent and his interests include chess, scuba diving, and rare-book collecting.  He is married and is the proud father of two young daughters.

Mr. Gaurav Pandey has over 17 years of experience in the real estate sector. He is passionate about the sector and believes it will be a key growth driver for the Indian economy.

As the CEO of the North Zone, Mr. Gaurav transformed the P&L of the business and built a high- performing team. The North Zone is now the fastest growing and most profitable zone at GPL, backed by strong business development, strategy, sales and execution excellence. In the five years of his leadership, the zone grew by 6X in Booking Value, 4X in Collections, and imputed ROCE increased very significantly to 27%. In fiscal year 2022, PAT for the North Zone was the largest contributor to GPL’s P&L.

Prior to joining Godrej, Mr. Gaurav was the CEO of Burman GSC, the joint real estate platform of the Burman family and Golden State Capital. He has also been Senior Vice President and Head Research & Consulting for India’s largest real estate research firm, PropEquity, and advised private equity funds, mutual funds, foreign institutional investors, developers, NBFCs and banks on real estate investments in India. He co-anchored The Property Show on NDTV. Prior to this, Gaurav was part of the Management Committee of Ascendas India. 

He is an Economics Honours graduate from the University of Delhi and has done a post graduate course from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Kozhikode. He is part of the Management Committee of GPL and serves on the Real Estate Committee of FICCI. Gaurav was recognized as the ‘Realty Personality of the Year’ by the Economic Times at the 2022 Real Estate Conclave & Awards (North).

Lalita Gupte is the Chairperson of ICICI Venture Funds Management Company Limited. Lalita was the Joint Managing Director of ICICI Bank, India’s second largest commercial bank until 2006. Lalita was listed by Fortune as one of the fifty most powerful women in international business. Lalita serves on the Board of Directors of both Nokia and Alstom. An INSEAD alumnus, Lalita also holds a Master's Degree in Business Management and a Bachelor's Degree in Economics from the Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies.

Amitava Mukherjee has over 20 years of experience in Investment Banking and has served as a Managing Director and Board member at Lazard India and Ambit Corporate Finance. He has a Master’s Degree in Management from the Asian Institute of Management, Manila and a degree in Business Economics from the Delhi School of Economics, New Delhi.

Ms. Sutapa Banerjee has spent 24 years in the financial services industry across 2 large multinational banks (ANZ Grindlays and ABN AMRO), and a boutique Indian Investment bank (Ambit) where she built and headed several businesses. A well recognized thought leader in the Wealth Management space having headed and successfully built from scratch the Private Wealth businesses in both ABN AMRO Bank and Ambit Capital, Ms. Sutapa was voted one of the ‘Top 20 Global Rising Stars of Wealth Management’ by the Institutional Investor Group in 2007 - the only Indian and one of only two winners from Asia. As CEO she led Ambit Private Wealth to ‘Best Private Bank in India in the 2013 AsiaMoney polls. In 2012 she was shortlisted in the ’50 Most Powerful Women’ by Fortune India.

Currently, she serves as an Independent Director on the boards of several companies in the JSW Group, Konecranes India, Women’s World Banking Group, Axis Capital, Mannapuram Finance, Oxfam, and Niyogin Fintech. She is a Visiting Faculty with IIM Ahmedabad co-creating and co-teaching an elective on cognitive biases in decision making and its impact on corporate practices with a focus on gender- a first for any business school anywhere. Ms. Sutapa is also an adjunct faculty with IICA – the Government think tank under the Ministry of Corporate Affairs. In addition, she works as a Decision Coach for senior leadership talent and consults in the Wealth and Investments area for the Gerson Lehrman Group.

Ms. Sutapa is an Advanced Leadership Fellow (2015) at Harvard University. Her area of study in which she teaches, consults, trains, writes and speaks both internationally and in India is on Cognitive Errors and Biases in Decision-making and the use of data analytics and design interventions to mitigate its impact. Ms. Sutapa is a gold medalist in Economics from the XLRI school of Management in India, and an Economics honours graduate from Presidency College Kolkata. A member of the CII National Committee on Integrity and Transparency in Governance, CII National Committee on Women’s Empowerment and the Indian Women Network, she also serves on the Advisory Panel of the ‘India Responsible Business Forum’.

Dr. Indu Bhushan served as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of National Health Authority (NHA) and Ayushman Bharat – Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB - PMJAY), a flagship health assurance scheme of the Government of India covering more than 500 million citizens from April 2018 to January 2021.

As CEO, he led the design, development and the rollout of the scheme and oversaw its implementation in the country.

Dr. Bhushan is an ex-Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer (1983 batch, Rajasthan cadre). He holds a Ph.D. in Health Economics and a Master of Health Sciences from the Johns Hopkins University, USA. He is an alumnus of the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology Banaras Hindu University (IIT BHU) and IIT Delhi, where he completed his B. Tech and Post Graduate Diploma, respectively. He is also a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA).

Dr. Bhushan has a career spanning almost 40 years across a multitude of sectors. He served for nine years in the IAS prior to leaving government service. Thereafter, he worked as Senior Economist with the World Bank Group prior to moving to the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in 1997.

Until his appointment as CEO, AB - PMJAY, he served as Director General, East Asia Department of ADB. He has held multiple positions within ADB including Director General, Strategy and Policy Department and has led ADB’s engagement with several Asian economies including the People’s Republic of China. He administered and provided oversight to sectors like energy, environment, natural resources and agriculture, transport, public management, financial and regional cooperation and urban and social development.

Pirojsha Godrej is the Executive Chairperson of Godrej Properties, Godrej Housing Finance, and Godrej Fund Management and a Non-Executive Director at Godrej Consumer Products and Godrej Agrovet. Pirojsha graduated from the Wharton School of Business in 2002, completed his Masters in International Affairs from Columbia University in 2004, and an MBA from Columbia Business School in 2008. Pirojsha joined GPL in 2004, became an Executive Director in 2008, and was appointed CEO of Godrej Properties in 2012.  He has led the company through a phase of rapid growth.  In Financial Year 2016, Godrej Properties for the first time became India's #1 publicly listed real estate developer by residential sales, a position it has retained for the past 5 years.  

Under Pirojsha’s leadership, Godrej Properties has been at the forefront of the sustainable development movement; in 2013, GPL received an award from former President of India, APJ Abdul Kalam for being one of the companies in India from across sectors to have driven the green building movement.  Godrej Properties in 2016 was ranked #2 in Asia and #5 in the World in terms of its sustainability performance in the Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark Report.  The Indian Green Building Council (IGBC) has awarded Pirojsha the IGBC Green Champion Award 2016 for his contribution to the sustainability of India's built environment.

In 2017, Pirojsha was appointed the Executive Chairman of Godrej Properties.  He also assumed the role of Executive Chairman of Godrej Fund Management.  In 2019, Pirojsha founded and became the Executive Chairman of Godrej Housing Finance. He has traveled to over 90 countries and every continent and his interests include chess, scuba diving, and rare-book collecting.  He is married and is the proud father of two young daughters.

Mr. Gaurav Pandey has over 17 years of experience in the real estate sector. He is passionate about the sector and believes it will be a key growth driver for the Indian economy.

As the CEO of the North Zone, Mr. Gaurav transformed the P&L of the business and built a high- performing team. The North Zone is now the fastest growing and most profitable zone at GPL, backed by strong business development, strategy, sales and execution excellence. In the five years of his leadership, the zone grew by 6X in Booking Value, 4X in Collections, and imputed ROCE increased very significantly to 27%. In fiscal year 2022, PAT for the North Zone was the largest contributor to GPL’s P&L.

Prior to joining Godrej, Mr. Gaurav was the CEO of Burman GSC, the joint real estate platform of the Burman family and Golden State Capital. He has also been Senior Vice President and Head Research & Consulting for India’s largest real estate research firm, PropEquity, and advised private equity funds, mutual funds, foreign institutional investors, developers, NBFCs and banks on real estate investments in India. He co-anchored The Property Show on NDTV. Prior to this, Gaurav was part of the Management Committee of Ascendas India. 

He is an Economics Honours graduate from the University of Delhi and has done a post graduate course from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Kozhikode. He is part of the Management Committee of GPL and serves on the Real Estate Committee of FICCI. Gaurav was recognized as the ‘Realty Personality of the Year’ by the Economic Times at the 2022 Real Estate Conclave & Awards (North).

Amitava Mukherjee has over 20 years of experience in Investment Banking and has served as a Managing Director and Board member at Lazard India and Ambit Corporate Finance. He has a Master’s Degree in Management from the Asian Institute of Management, Manila and a degree in Business Economics from the Delhi School of Economics, New Delhi.

Pirojsha Godrej is the Executive Chairperson of Godrej Properties, Godrej Housing Finance, and Godrej Fund Management and a Non-Executive Director at Godrej Consumer Products and Godrej Agrovet. Pirojsha graduated from the Wharton School of Business in 2002, completed his Masters in International Affairs from Columbia University in 2004, and an MBA from Columbia Business School in 2008. Pirojsha joined GPL in 2004, became an Executive Director in 2008, and was appointed CEO of Godrej Properties in 2012.  He has led the company through a phase of rapid growth.  In Financial Year 2016, Godrej Properties for the first time became India's #1 publicly listed real estate developer by residential sales, a position it has retained for the past 5 years.

Under Pirojsha’s leadership, Godrej Properties has been at the forefront of the sustainable development movement; in 2013, GPL received an award from former President of India, APJ Abdul Kalam for being one of the companies in India from across sectors to have driven the green building movement.  Godrej Properties in 2016 was ranked #2 in Asia and #5 in the World in terms of its sustainability performance in the Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark Report.  The Indian Green Building Council (IGBC) has awarded Pirojsha the IGBC Green Champion Award 2016 for his contribution to the sustainability of India's built environment.

In 2017, Pirojsha was appointed the Executive Chairman of Godrej Properties.  He also assumed the role of Executive Chairman of Godrej Fund Management.  In 2019, Pirojsha founded and became the Executive Chairman of Godrej Housing Finance. He has traveled to over 90 countries and every continent and his interests include chess, scuba diving, and rare-book collecting.  He is married and is the proud father of two young daughters.

Mr. Gaurav Pandey has over 17 years of experience in the real estate sector. He is passionate about the sector and believes it will be a key growth driver for the Indian economy.

As the CEO of the North Zone, Mr. Gaurav transformed the P&L of the business and built a high- performing team. The North Zone is now the fastest growing and most profitable zone at GPL, backed by strong business development, strategy, sales and execution excellence. In the five years of his leadership, the zone grew by 6X in Booking Value, 4X in Collections, and imputed ROCE increased very significantly to 27%. In fiscal year 2022, PAT for the North Zone was the largest contributor to GPL’s P&L.

Prior to joining Godrej, Mr. Gaurav was the CEO of Burman GSC, the joint real estate platform of the Burman family and Golden State Capital. He has also been Senior Vice President and Head Research & Consulting for India’s largest real estate research firm, PropEquity, and advised private equity funds, mutual funds, foreign institutional investors, developers, NBFCs and banks on real estate investments in India. He co-anchored The Property Show on NDTV. Prior to this, Gaurav was part of the Management Committee of Ascendas India.

He is an Economics Honours graduate from the University of Delhi and has done a post graduate course from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Kozhikode. He is part of the Management Committee of GPL and serves on the Real Estate Committee of FICCI. Gaurav was recognized as the ‘Realty Personality of the Year’ by the Economic Times at the 2022 Real Estate Conclave & Awards (North).

Amitava Mukherjee has over 20 years of experience in Investment Banking and has served as a Managing Director and Board member at Lazard India and Ambit Corporate Finance. He has a Master’s Degree in Management from the Asian Institute of Management, Manila and a degree in Business Economics from the Delhi School of Economics, New Delhi.

Dr. Indu Bhushan served as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of National Health Authority (NHA) and Ayushman Bharat – Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB - PMJAY), a flagship health assurance scheme of the Government of India covering more than 500 million citizens from April 2018 to January 2021.

As CEO, he led the design, development and the rollout of the scheme and oversaw its implementation in the country.

Dr. Bhushan is an ex-Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer (1983 batch, Rajasthan cadre). He holds a Ph.D. in Health Economics and a Master of Health Sciences from the Johns Hopkins University, USA. He is an alumnus of the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology Banaras Hindu University (IIT BHU) and IIT Delhi, where he completed his B. Tech and Post Graduate Diploma, respectively. He is also a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA).

Dr. Bhushan has a career spanning almost 40 years across a multitude of sectors. He served for nine years in the IAS prior to leaving government service. Thereafter, he worked as Senior Economist with the World Bank Group prior to moving to the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in 1997.

Until his appointment as CEO, AB - PMJAY, he served as Director General, East Asia Department of ADB. He has held multiple positions within ADB including Director General, Strategy and Policy Department and has led ADB’s engagement with several Asian economies including the People’s Republic of China. He administered and provided oversight to sectors like energy, environment, natural resources and agriculture, transport, public management, financial and regional cooperation and urban and social development.

Pirojsha Godrej is the Executive Chairperson of Godrej Properties, Godrej Housing Finance, and Godrej Fund Management and a Non-Executive Director at Godrej Consumer Products and Godrej Agrovet. Pirojsha graduated from the Wharton School of Business in 2002, completed his Masters in International Affairs from Columbia University in 2004, and an MBA from Columbia Business School in 2008. Pirojsha joined GPL in 2004, became an Executive Director in 2008, and was appointed CEO of Godrej Properties in 2012.  He has led the company through a phase of rapid growth.  In Financial Year 2016, Godrej Properties for the first time became India's #1 publicly listed real estate developer by residential sales, a position it has retained for the past 5 years.  

Under Pirojsha’s leadership, Godrej Properties has been at the forefront of the sustainable development movement; in 2013, GPL received an award from former President of India, APJ Abdul Kalam for being one of the companies in India from across sectors to have driven the green building movement.  Godrej Properties in 2016 was ranked #2 in Asia and #5 in the World in terms of its sustainability performance in the Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark Report.  The Indian Green Building Council (IGBC) has awarded Pirojsha the IGBC Green Champion Award 2016 for his contribution to the sustainability of India's built environment.

In 2017, Pirojsha was appointed the Executive Chairman of Godrej Properties.  He also assumed the role of Executive Chairman of Godrej Fund Management.  In 2019, Pirojsha founded and became the Executive Chairman of Godrej Housing Finance. He has traveled to over 90 countries and every continent and his interests include chess, scuba diving, and rare-book collecting.  He is married and is the proud father of two young daughters.

Mr. Gaurav Pandey has over 17 years of experience in the real estate sector. He is passionate about the sector and believes it will be a key growth driver for the Indian economy.

As the CEO of the North Zone, Mr. Gaurav transformed the P&L of the business and built a high- performing team. The North Zone is now the fastest growing and most profitable zone at GPL, backed by strong business development, strategy, sales and execution excellence. In the five years of his leadership, the zone grew by 6X in Booking Value, 4X in Collections, and imputed ROCE increased very significantly to 27%. In fiscal year 2022, PAT for the North Zone was the largest contributor to GPL’s P&L.

Prior to joining Godrej, Mr. Gaurav was the CEO of Burman GSC, the joint real estate platform of the Burman family and Golden State Capital. He has also been Senior Vice President and Head Research & Consulting for India’s largest real estate research firm, PropEquity, and advised private equity funds, mutual funds, foreign institutional investors, developers, NBFCs and banks on real estate investments in India. He co-anchored The Property Show on NDTV. Prior to this, Gaurav was part of the Management Committee of Ascendas India. 

He is an Economics Honours graduate from the University of Delhi and has done a post graduate course from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Kozhikode. He is part of the Management Committee of GPL and serves on the Real Estate Committee of FICCI. Gaurav was recognized as the ‘Realty Personality of the Year’ by the Economic Times at the 2022 Real Estate Conclave & Awards (North).

Lalita Gupte is the Chairperson of ICICI Venture Funds Management Company Limited. Lalita was the Joint Managing Director of ICICI Bank, India’s second largest commercial bank until 2006. Lalita was listed by Fortune as one of the fifty most powerful women in international business. Lalita serves on the Board of Directors of both Nokia and Alstom. An INSEAD alumnus, Lalita also holds a Master's Degree in Business Management and a Bachelor's Degree in Economics from the Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies.

Amitava Mukherjee has over 20 years of experience in Investment Banking and has served as a Managing Director and Board member at Lazard India and Ambit Corporate Finance. He has a Master’s Degree in Management from the Asian Institute of Management, Manila and a degree in Business Economics from the Delhi School of Economics, New Delhi.

Ms. Sutapa Banerjee has spent 24 years in the financial services industry across 2 large multinational banks (ANZ Grindlays and ABN AMRO), and a boutique Indian Investment bank (Ambit) where she built and headed several businesses. A well recognized thought leader in the Wealth Management space having headed and successfully built from scratch the Private Wealth businesses in both ABN AMRO Bank and Ambit Capital, Ms. Sutapa was voted one of the ‘Top 20 Global Rising Stars of Wealth Management’ by the Institutional Investor Group in 2007 - the only Indian and one of only two winners from Asia. As CEO she led Ambit Private Wealth to ‘Best Private Bank in India in the 2013 AsiaMoney polls. In 2012 she was shortlisted in the ’50 Most Powerful Women’ by Fortune India.

Currently, she serves as an Independent Director on the boards of several companies in the JSW Group, Konecranes India, Women’s World Banking Group, Axis Capital, Mannapuram Finance, Oxfam, and Niyogin Fintech. She is a Visiting Faculty with IIM Ahmedabad co-creating and co-teaching an elective on cognitive biases in decision making and its impact on corporate practices with a focus on gender- a first for any business school anywhere. Ms. Sutapa is also an adjunct faculty with IICA – the Government think tank under the Ministry of Corporate Affairs. In addition, she works as a Decision Coach for senior leadership talent and consults in the Wealth and Investments area for the Gerson Lehrman Group.

Ms. Sutapa is an Advanced Leadership Fellow (2015) at Harvard University. Her area of study in which she teaches, consults, trains, writes and speaks both internationally and in India is on Cognitive Errors and Biases in Decision-making and the use of data analytics and design interventions to mitigate its impact. Ms. Sutapa is a gold medalist in Economics from the XLRI School of Management in India, and an Economics honours graduate from Presidency College Kolkata. A member of the CII National Committee on Integrity and Transparency in Governance, CII National Committee on Women’s Empowerment and the Indian Women Network, she also serves on the Advisory Panel of the ‘India Responsible Business Forum’.

Dr. Indu Bhushan served as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of National Health Authority (NHA) and Ayushman Bharat – Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB - PMJAY), a flagship health assurance scheme of the Government of India covering more than 500 million citizens from April 2018 to January 2021.

As CEO, he led the design, development and the rollout of the scheme and oversaw its implementation in the country.

Dr. Bhushan is an ex-Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer (1983 batch, Rajasthan cadre). He holds a Ph.D. in Health Economics and a Master of Health Sciences from the Johns Hopkins University, USA. He is an alumnus of the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology Banaras Hindu University (IIT BHU) and IIT Delhi, where he completed his B. Tech and Post Graduate Diploma, respectively. He is also a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA).

Dr. Bhushan has a career spanning almost 40 years across a multitude of sectors. He served for nine years in the IAS prior to leaving government service. Thereafter, he worked as Senior Economist with the World Bank Group prior to moving to the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in 1997.

Until his appointment as CEO, AB - PMJAY, he served as Director General, East Asia Department of ADB. He has held multiple positions within ADB including Director General, Strategy and Policy Department and has led ADB’s engagement with several Asian economies including the People’s Republic of China. He administered and provided oversight to sectors like energy, environment, natural resources and agriculture, transport, public management, financial and regional cooperation and urban and social development.

Pirojsha Godrej is the Executive Chairperson of Godrej Properties, Godrej Housing Finance, and Godrej Fund Management and a Non-Executive Director at Godrej Consumer Products and Godrej Agrovet. Pirojsha graduated from the Wharton School of Business in 2002, completed his Masters in International Affairs from Columbia University in 2004, and an MBA from Columbia Business School in 2008. Pirojsha joined GPL in 2004, became an Executive Director in 2008, and was appointed CEO of Godrej Properties in 2012.  He has led the company through a phase of rapid growth.  In Financial Year 2016, Godrej Properties for the first time became India's #1 publicly listed real estate developer by residential sales, a position it has retained for the past 5 years.  

Under Pirojsha’s leadership, Godrej Properties has been at the forefront of the sustainable development movement; in 2013, GPL received an award from former President of India, APJ Abdul Kalam for being one of the companies in India from across sectors to have driven the green building movement.  Godrej Properties in 2016 was ranked #2 in Asia and #5 in the World in terms of its sustainability performance in the Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark Report.  The Indian Green Building Council (IGBC) has awarded Pirojsha the IGBC Green Champion Award 2016 for his contribution to the sustainability of India's built environment.

In 2017, Pirojsha was appointed the Executive Chairman of Godrej Properties.  He also assumed the role of Executive Chairman of Godrej Fund Management.  In 2019, Pirojsha founded and became the Executive Chairman of Godrej Housing Finance. He has traveled to over 90 countries and every continent and his interests include chess, scuba diving, and rare-book collecting.  He is married and is the proud father of two young daughters.

Mr. Gaurav Pandey has over 17 years of experience in the real estate sector. He is passionate about the sector and believes it will be a key growth driver for the Indian economy.

As the CEO of the North Zone, Mr. Gaurav transformed the P&L of the business and built a high- performing team. The North Zone is now the fastest growing and most profitable zone at GPL, backed by strong business development, strategy, sales and execution excellence. In the five years of his leadership, the zone grew by 6X in Booking Value, 4X in Collections, and imputed ROCE increased very significantly to 27%. In fiscal year 2022, PAT for the North Zone was the largest contributor to GPL’s P&L.

Prior to joining Godrej, Mr. Gaurav was the CEO of Burman GSC, the joint real estate platform of the Burman family and Golden State Capital. He has also been Senior Vice President and Head Research & Consulting for India’s largest real estate research firm, PropEquity, and advised private equity funds, mutual funds, foreign institutional investors, developers, NBFCs and banks on real estate investments in India. He co-anchored The Property Show on NDTV. Prior to this, Gaurav was part of the Management Committee of Ascendas India. 

He is an Economics Honours graduate from the University of Delhi and has done a post graduate course from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Kozhikode. He is part of the Management Committee of GPL and serves on the Real Estate Committee of FICCI. Gaurav was recognized as the ‘Realty Personality of the Year’ by the Economic Times at the 2022 Real Estate Conclave & Awards (North).

Amitava Mukherjee has over 20 years of experience in Investment Banking and has served as a Managing Director and Board member at Lazard India and Ambit Corporate Finance. He has a Master’s Degree in Management from the Asian Institute of Management, Manila and a degree in Business Economics from the Delhi School of Economics, New Delhi.

Pirojsha Godrej is the Executive Chairperson of Godrej Properties, Godrej Housing Finance, and Godrej Fund Management and a Non-Executive Director at Godrej Consumer Products and Godrej Agrovet. Pirojsha graduated from the Wharton School of Business in 2002, completed his Masters in International Affairs from Columbia University in 2004, and an MBA from Columbia Business School in 2008. Pirojsha joined GPL in 2004, became an Executive Director in 2008, and was appointed CEO of Godrej Properties in 2012.  He has led the company through a phase of rapid growth.  In Financial Year 2016, Godrej Properties for the first time became India's #1 publicly listed real estate developer by residential sales, a position it has retained for the past 5 years.  

Under Pirojsha’s leadership, Godrej Properties has been at the forefront of the sustainable development movement; in 2013, GPL received an award from former President of India, APJ Abdul Kalam for being one of the companies in India from across sectors to have driven the green building movement.  Godrej Properties in 2016 was ranked #2 in Asia and #5 in the World in terms of its sustainability performance in the Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark Report.  The Indian Green Building Council (IGBC) has awarded Pirojsha the IGBC Green Champion Award 2016 for his contribution to the sustainability of India's built environment.

In 2017, Pirojsha was appointed the Executive Chairman of Godrej Properties.  He also assumed the role of Executive Chairman of Godrej Fund Management.  In 2019, Pirojsha founded and became the Executive Chairman of Godrej Housing Finance. He has traveled to over 90 countries and every continent and his interests include chess, scuba diving, and rare-book collecting.  He is married and is the proud father of two young daughters.

Mr. Gaurav Pandey has over 17 years of experience in the real estate sector. He is passionate about the sector and believes it will be a key growth driver for the Indian economy.

As the CEO of the North Zone, Mr. Gaurav transformed the P&L of the business and built a high- performing team. The North Zone is now the fastest growing and most profitable zone at GPL, backed by strong business development, strategy, sales and execution excellence. In the five years of his leadership, the zone grew by 6X in Booking Value, 4X in Collections, and imputed ROCE increased very significantly to 27%. In fiscal year 2022, PAT for the North Zone was the largest contributor to GPL’s P&L.

Prior to joining Godrej, Mr. Gaurav was the CEO of Burman GSC, the joint real estate platform of the Burman family and Golden State Capital. He has also been Senior Vice President and Head Research & Consulting for India’s largest real estate research firm, PropEquity, and advised private equity funds, mutual funds, foreign institutional investors, developers, NBFCs and banks on real estate investments in India. He co-anchored The Property Show on NDTV. Prior to this, Gaurav was part of the Management Committee of Ascendas India. 

He is an Economics Honours graduate from the University of Delhi and has done a post graduate course from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Kozhikode. He is part of the Management Committee of GPL and serves on the Real Estate Committee of FICCI. Gaurav was recognized as the ‘Realty Personality of the Year’ by the Economic Times at the 2022 Real Estate Conclave & Awards (North).

Amitava Mukherjee has over 20 years of experience in Investment Banking and has served as a Managing Director and Board member at Lazard India and Ambit Corporate Finance. He has a Master’s Degree in Management from the Asian Institute of Management, Manila and a degree in Business Economics from the Delhi School of Economics, New Delhi.