M N Chaini elected President, Gul Kripalani, VP of IMC

Mr Murlidhar Narayan Chaini, Vice-President of Indian Merchants' Chamber (IMC) and President (Corporate Affairs) of Reliance Industries, has been elected IMC President for 2008-09. Mr Gul Kripalani, Chairman of the IMC's International Trade Committee and also CMD of Pijikay Group of Companies, has been elected IMC's Vice-President for the year.

Mr Chaini has served the IMC in various capacities as a Member of its Managing Committee, as the Chairman of its Energy and Industry committees, and as the Cochairman of IMC's India Interest Group.

As the Chairman of the Privatisation Committee of Planning Commission, Maharashtra, he submitted the report which is under implementation by the State Government. Mr Chaini was the President of Maharashtra Economic Development Council [MEDC] during 2002 - 06. He also holds the position as Director of Reliance Assam Petrochemicals, Fem Care Pharma, and Champagne Indage Ltd.

His accomplishments include the construction of India's first Nylon Tyre Cord Plant in India, based on Zimmer Technology and designed the nylon plants in South Korea, Taiwan, Indonesia and Thailand for Chemtex. He was also involved in the basic design and construction of polyester plants of Philippines, Yugoslavia and Costa Ricca. Later he worked as the Country Head of Chemtex in India.

He has extensively dealt with multinational companies such as, Du Pont, ICI, Bechtel, UOP, John Brown, Chemtex, Boeing, Dassault, Bell Textron, Raytheon, Bambardier, Shell, M.W.Kellogg, BP Chemicals, Samsung, Nichimen, Itochu, Mitsubishi, etc.

Sourced From: Pressman India