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TEAMWORK
NANDAN PIRAMAL
Nandan Piramal heads the high speed engineering business under Miranda Tools and leads the sales and marketing function at Peninsula Land Ltd.
Nandan overseas all aspects of business at Miranda Tools: from strategy to execution. The company has three manufacturing plants at Ankleshwar in Gujarat which produces engineering including carbide tipped tools.
Nandan also heads sales and marketing at Peninsula Land Ltd. He conceptualized and implemented marketing tools that have transformed project launches and improved sales. Projects launched under him include Peninsula Heights in Bengaluru, Carmichael Residences at Carmichael Road and Celestia Spaces at Sewree, both in Mumbai.
Nandan started his career as vice-chairman in Pyramid Retail after finishing his studies in London. He was in charge of handling all aspects of retail business from business strategy to expansion. Under his leadership, the number of retail stores increased to 40.
Nandan also conceptualized and launched Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) at Ashok Piramal Group. The CSR projects include vocational skill training institutes and 7 mobile health care vans in Rajasthan and Maharashtra.
Nandan was responsible for the birth of Pune Football Club which was launched in 2007. The Club has won various trophies in a short span. The club has its own training pitches in Pune.
Nandan is an alumnus of University College, London.
RAJEEV PIRAMAL
Rajeev Piramal spearheads the real estate business of the Ashok Piramal Group and leads all aspects of the business from strategy to operations. Under his leadership, Peninsula Land has grown robustly, developing over 6.4 mn sq ft of development in the residential, commercial and retail sectors. The total current value of these projects is estimated to be over Rs 14,000 crores. Another 16 mn sq ft of premium real estate is under development.
Under Rajeev, Peninsula Land transformed from the Mumbai-based company to one with operations spread across eight cities in four states. He also expanded the portfolio and included second homes and villas in Peninsula’s kitty.
Rajeev entered the real estate sector in early 2001 and became a Director at Peninsula Land. In the last 13 years that he has been associated with the real estate sector, Rajeev has played an instrumental role in developing some of the landmark projects in Mumbai.
Rajeev was part of the team that developed the first textile mill land in Mumbai, after the government opened up development of mill land. Peninsula Corporate Park was developed on textile mill land in Central Mumbai and this project transformed Lower Parel into a new age business district.
He also played a crucial part in the development of the first mall in India: Crossroads. Rajeev was in charge of the operations of Crossroads that brought in a new concept of shopping to India. Peninsula Business Park, Peninsula Technopark, Ashok Towers and Ashok Gardens are some of the other iconic projects developed under his leadership.
In 2005, Rajeev took over as the Vice Chairman of the company. He has enabled Peninsula Land to create a strong brand for itself. He firmly believes that quality and timely execution of projects are the key factors leading to success in the real estate business.
Rajeev is also passionate about sports. His love for football resulted in setting up the Pune Football Club, a professionally run football club in Pune, along with his brothers.
Engaging & Enabling
Our demographics are very exciting, with a wonderful dispersion of millennials, woman in leadership and other levels, culturally diverse and open in culture. We leverage this strength through activities that are cultural, sports, health, intellectual and celebrations.
We strongly encourage the employee and reporting manager dialogues and conversations that will help in team work and conflict resolution. The top leadership is open to skip and be open to engage in order to create an environment of openness and transparency.
Nurturing & Coaching
One of the key initiatives that we are proud of is our ability to coach and mentor key talent through individual and group coaching methodology. The uniqueness about this program some of the selective groups go through team coaching with direct involvement from the Chairperson overseeing the progress and effectiveness of the program.
Recognizing & Rewarding
While instant recognition and rewards are done to encourage, the group conducts an annual recognition program RACE Awards that recognizes individual, team, company and the best of best based on their performance which includes individual nomination and team nominations. It is one of the prestigious awards that every one look forward to every year.
Development opportunities
We identify critical talent and high potential early on in their career and carefully create a development plan that will prepare them to take higher roles and responsibilities. Those identified individuals are considered as ‘first among equals’ and the best opportunities when it presents itself. It is an institutionalized program that has direct involvement from the senior most leadership in the group
Empowering Environment
We promote a challenging environment where we let one to charter beyond the ordinary, take ownership, stretch and take calculated risks. This is our way of helping an individual to explore their talent and building new capabilities
Values & Ethos
The group’s vision has been instrumental in developing a culture that stems from a set of core values which embody everything we stand for and do – value generation.