Dr. Anish Shah

Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Mahindra Group

Neeraj Bharadwaj

Dr. Anish Shah is the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Mahindra Group. Since joining the Mahindra Group in 2014 as Group President (Strategy), Dr. Anish Shah has worked closely with all of the Group’s businesses on key strategic initiatives, built capabilities such as digitization and data sciences, and enabled synergies across group companies. 

Previously, Anish was President and CEO of GE Capital India from 2009-14, where he led the transformation of the business, including a turnaround of its SBI Card joint venture. His career at GE spanned 14 years, during which he held several leadership positions at GE Capital’s US and global units. 

Anish holds a Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon’s Tepper School of Business where his doctoral thesis was in the field of corporate governance. He also received a master’s degree from Carnegie Mellon and has a post-graduate diploma in Management from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.