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Harsh Piramal heads the textiles and renewable energy businesses of the Group.

Harsh has been responsible for leading a turnaround at Morarjee Textiles since he began leading the company in 2004. The company is now planning to expand its operations and regain its position as one of India’s leading textile companies.

Since its inception in 2012, Piramal Renewable Energy has entered the fast-growing renewable energy sector in India.

Harash began his career as an analyst at venture capital firm Indocean Chase Capital Partners (subsequently part of JP Morgan Chase). After completing his MBA, he founded Thundercloud Technologies (India) Private Limited, an IT Company, in May 2000. In August 2001, he was appointed COO – Allied Pharma Businesses at Nicholas Piramal India Limited (now Piramal Enterprises Limited), where he was responsible for the turnaround and robust growth of all divisions. He was in this position till April 2004, when he took up his current positions.
Harsh plays competitive polo at the national level and is a keen football player. He co-founded Pune Football Club in 2007. He is also involved in tiger conservation.

Harsh holds a Bachelor of Science (Physics) degree from Kings College London and a MBA (specializing in Finance and Strategy) from the London Business School.

Ms. Urvi Piramal oversees a professionally managed conglomerate with business interest in real estate, textiles, engineering and renewable energy. She is the guiding force behind the Group’s sustained and profitable growth; which is bringing the Group companies closer to realizing her vision of touching the lives of one in five people around the globe.
Ms. Piramal plays a leading role in envisioning and formulating the Group’s strategies in the businesses. The Group’s real estate foray has been driven by her foresight and her sharp business acumen has played an immeasurable role in placing Peninsula Land Limited as one of the top real estate companies in India. She has been instrumental in the Group’s diversification and foray into the renewable energy sector and set up a hydro power generation project in Himachal Pradesh.

Ms Piramal has been a member of Technology and Quality Improvement Committee of IMC since its inception in 1994, and also the Chairperson of Supply Chain & Retail business (Internal Trade) Committee (04-05).
She has a Bachelor of Science degree and has attended the Advance Management Program at Harvard Business School. Ms. Piramal has received a number of awards for her contribution to business. She was awarded the Qimpro Gold Standard Award for excellence in Managing Quality Improvement programmes across the Group. She has won the Outstanding Woman Industrialist Award presented by the Marinelines Junior Chamber and the Yami Woman Award for her outstanding contribution to business. She also has to her credit the Cheminor Award from the India Institute of Materials Management. She was honoured with the Giants International Award in recognition of her outstanding contribution to business in 2015.

She is a Trustee of the Piramal Education Trust, Ashok G Piramal Trust and Urvi Ashok Piramal Foundation (UAPF) which has been set up for the underprivileged. Through these trusts, Ms Piramal has initiated social projects within the Group.
The Foundation runs 7 mobile health vans at Bagar in Rajasthan, Ankleshwar in Gujarat and Nagpur in Maharashtra, providing quality health-care at peoples’ doorstep. She is on the board of Population First, an NGO working on creating awareness for the girl child. Ms Piramal is a wildlife enthusiast and spends her leisure time reading, listening to music and traveling extensively.