Mr. Manish Choksi, aged 56 years, is a Bachelor of Chemical Engineering and an MBA with specialisation in Entrepreneurial Management and MIS Program from the University of Houston, USA.

He is currently the non-executive Vice-Chairman of Asian Paints Limited. He has been associated with Asian Paints Limited since 1992 as an Executive and has grown in ranks by holding various positions across Sales, Information Technology, Supply Chain, Chemicals, International Business and HR functions of the Company.

In addition to Asian Paints Limited, he currently serves as an Independent Director on the boards of the following listed companies Vedant Fashions Limited and Birlasoft Limited.

He is an active angel investor with particular interest in investing in companies that champion cross leverage of physical and e-commerce models with a focus on consumers and data / analytics. He serves on advisory boards of several start-ups and Chiratae Ventures (formerly known as IDG Ventures), one of India’s largest venture capital companies.

He has been a leader in the IT community and the past Chairman of INDUS, a 1100+ company network of SAP users. He served on the advisory boards of IBMs Collaboration business, the Asia Pacific Executive Advisory Board of SAP APAC, member of the Global Chemical Executive Advisory Board of SAP SE and a member of SUGEN, a global executive network of all SAP user groups worldwide.