Mr. Manoj Mohanka

Manoj Mohanka (DOB: 05.03.1963) cut his teeth in his youth in wide-ranging businesses such as market research, exporting garments to the USA, pharmaceuticals to the USSR, running a mini – steel plant and raising foreign capital for Indian businesses.

Since then, Manoj Mohanka has invested in several companies in different domains. Deccan Chronicle and TV 18 in the media space, 3D Techno pack and Simoco Digital in the manufacturing sector, Magus in customer dialogue, Batchmates.com and WoNoBo.com in the internet space. In all these companies he played a variety of roles from turn around to formulating business strategy, building management teams, raising capital, negotiating foreign collaborations and public offerings.

He has either served or is presently serving on the board of a wide range of companies such as Scomi International in Singapore, TFA in Italy, West Bengal Industrial Development Corporation (the nodal industrial promotion agency of the Govt of West Bengal) Indian Terrain Fashions Limited in Chennai, India Carbon Ltd with a factory in Assam & Titagarh Wagons Ltd headquartered in Kolkata. He was Chairman of Mumbai based Info media Press Ltd (previously Tata Donnelly Ltd) & Network 18, India’s largest television network for many years.

He has been the head of many prestigious business associations such as President, Calcutta Chamber of Commerce, Chairman of Young Presidents Organization, Kolkata & served on the Economic Affairs Committee of FICCI(ER), Boards of Eastern Institute of Management and Indo-Italian Chamber of Commerce. He is keen on sports too & was President of Calcutta Racket Club, India’s oldest squash club. In addition, he runs a charitable trust for the education of Muslim girl children in non-madrasah schools.

He holds a Master’s degree with a major in Strategic Marketing from the Michael Smurfit Grad School of Business and has been a Gurukul Chevening Fellow at the London School of Economics.

Mr. Mohanka has been a Guest Lecturer at V.G. School of Management of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur and has articles published in business newspapers/internet portals on a variety of subjects such as economics, politics & religion. More details & published pieces   can be found on his personal
website: www.mohanka.in