At the 74th Annual General Body Meeting of the Mumbai unit of the Textile Association (India) [TAI], Rajiv Ranjan was unanimously reelected as the President for the 2025-26 to 2028-29 term. RR Patil was also elected as the new Vice President.
A highly regarded senior professional and strategic business leader with over 40 years of extensive, cross-functional experience in the Indian textile industry, Ranjan has been responsible for managing the Profit & Loss (P & L) for major businesses and demonstrating competence in leadership roles such as Executive Director & CEO, Hindoostan Mills (Thackersey Group), Mumbai and President-Textiles, Mafatlal Industries, Mumbai.
"In these roles, he successfully spearheaded leadership, business, and people transformation. He has a proven track record of setting up Greenfield projects and turning around operations to scale them into sustainable and profitable ventures.
Besides, the TAI Mumbai Unit also appointed the following individuals to other leadership positions. C Bose was appointed as the President Emeritus while VC Gupte was elected as the Chairman. GS Nagirer and VA Bhajekar were elected as Vice-Chairmen. Haresh B Parekh was elected as the Hon Secretary while Navin P Agrawal and Rajendra Ranadive were both named as Joint Honorary Secretaries. Prof KD Gawant was named as the Honoray Treasurer.
