“One of the initiatives we have mounted in order to improve the quality of our thinking on MentorSquare and its potential is to create an Advisory Board of some serious professional talent. We have some names we would like to approach at an appropriate time but one person we reached out to invite him on our Advisory Board is Mr. J.C. Chopra, who has enthusiastically consented to flag us along on this exciting journey. Mr. Chopra is an Adviser to the group companies belonging to TATA, arguably one of the most iconic conglomerates out of India but with its operations spread all over the world. “
Mr. J.C. Chopra is an Economist with over 55 years experience in Industry holding senior positions in Hindustan Unilever and subsequently in TATA companies. Mr. Chopra was Marketing Director at Hindustan Unilever, Senior Vice-President and Director at Voltas, and Senior Vice President and Director Marketing at TATA Consultancy Services. He has served on Boards of several TATA companies and is currently Director of Aditya Birla Chemicals, Garware Offshore Ltd, Eureka Forbes, and Infogain.
During his corporate career Mr. Chopra has worked on a number of Committees of the Government of India and the Planning Commission. He was on the Governing Board of National Council of Applied Economics Research, Chairman of The Indian Society of Advertisers, Chairman Audit Bureau of Circulation and other Bodies associated with Industry. He has had vast experience of dealing with Small and Medium Enterprises as ancillaries of large companies, vendors and partners in manufacturing. Mr. Chopra has taught at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad and Calcutta, and basic discipline is Marketing.
Mr. Chopra has promised to keep us on our collective toes by challenging our assumptions and by provoking thought along different dimensions. With his fearsome intellect and experience he promises to stretch our thought. We all believe that Mr. Chopra and the other Advisers will make MentorSquare a sharper and more responsive organization, which will live up to the potential we have discovered and help SMEs Grow Profitably and Compete Effectively in World Markets!
