Jetline Group and JetSynthesys’ Rajan Navani is the new Chairman of Ananta Centre
~Navani takes over from Jamshyd Godrej, Chairman, Godrej, and Boyce to helm the affairs of the prestigious Indian body~
India, 08 August 2023: Jetline Group head-honcho and founder and CEO of JetSynthesys, Rajan Navani, has been named as the Chairman of the board of trustees of the Ananta Centre. He is taking over from Jamshyd Godrej, Chairman, Godrej, and Boyce. The Centre engages civil society, businesses, governments, and other stakeholders on issues of importance to India’s development and national security. With a focus on values-based leadership development and open dialogue, the Ananta Centre brings the brightest minds from diverse fields, combining their knowledge and expertise to develop a robust policy paradigm.
As the new Chairman, Rajan will strive to use ethical leadership and fruitful discussions to effect change across the 3 core pillars of Leadership & Education, International Relations, and Public Policy. Other trustees of Ananta Centre in addition to Jamshyd Godrej include industry veterans Harshvardhan Neotia, Shobana Kamineni, Sanjiv Goenka, Tarun Das, Janmejaya Sinha, Banmali Agrawala, Haravard Professor Sugata Bose amongst others. Over the years, the Ananta Centre has grown rapidly and has successfully convened more than 500 sessions, including flagship annual programmes like Ideas India, India-US Forum, India-Japan Forum, and special events featuring women leaders to boost gender parity, to name a few.
Talking about taking up this new responsibility, Rajan Navani, said, “My association with the prestigious Ananta Centre dates to a decade. Over the years, I’ve had the privilege to work alongside some of the brightest minds of the country across areas of national and social concern. It’s humbling to accept this new position and look forward to carrying on the legacy that Jamshyd has established and working closely with the team and the larger ecosystem to effect positive change. Today India leads the race in several important domains, and we have one of the youngest economies in the world which is hungry to unlock growth and help us achieve our true potential. The Ananta Centre will work towards building the bright future of India and I’m grateful for the responsibility.”
One of the strongest voices in the emerging tech space, and across multiple digital-first sectors, Rajan Navani has in the last decade been a vocal advocate of using technology and digital for good. As a new age digital entertainment and technology company, JetSynthesys currently has a portfolio of world class products, platforms, and services, touching the digital lives of millions of consumers in India and around the globe.
Under Rajan’s leadership and strategic direction, JetSynthesys has built diversified business digital ecosystems in gaming and esports, music and video entertainment, wellness and livelihoods, fintech and social commerce, currently serving 100s of millions of users globally and 100+ clients worldwide. JetSynthesys harnesses advanced capabilities in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, blockchain, Web 3 and AR/VR/XR amongst others.
Rajan Navani is also the Chairman of the larger Jetline Group of Companies, which boasts of a near 90-year-old legacy globally in diversified large-scale manufacturing industries like textiles, packaging, electronics, real estate development, amongst others.
About Rajan Navani
Alongside leading JetSynthesys and the Jetline Group of Companies, Rajan is also the National President of the Indian Digital Gaming Society (IDGS), Chairman of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII)’s National Council on India@75 and founding trustee of the India@75 Foundation. Through India@75 he has worked with multiple stakeholders, including government, corporates and civil society in helping build a Dream India of 2022, seventy-five years post-independence and now working towards India@100. He is the Founding Chairman of CII’s Future Business Council, and the Past National Chairman of the CII Young Indians.
He is a Government of India nominated CEO of the India Japan Business Leaders Forum, member of the India Sweden Business Leaders Forum and is a founding board member of Indiaspora, a powerful network linking the Indian American Diaspora with India. He is a global board member of the US-India Business Council (USIBC) and a member of the Purdue-India Executive Council. Rajan is also playing an active role in helping shape the US-India partnership on the government and business front and is Co-Chair of the Singapore India and member of the Israel India Strategic Dialogue. He is serving as the Co-Chair of CII’s pioneering Silicon Valley initiative, Evolv.
About Ananta Centre
Ananta Centre is a non-partisan, not-for-profit organization, that focuses on value-based leadership development and open dialogue on important issues facing Indian society, to help foster its transformation. The organization has no political affiliation and serves to provide a platform and forum that engages civil society, business, governments, and other stakeholders on issues of importance to India’s development and national security through ethical leadership and constructive dialogues. The Centre activities focus around 3 core pillars – Leadership & Education, International Relations, and Public Policy.
The Centre is committed to building a society that is willing to listen, Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Youtube understand and most importantly, dialogue. To this objective, it convenes various programs for exchange of ideas, broadening perspectives and enhancing capacities to create sustainable solutions on a wide variety of issues.
The Centre addresses issues of significance through seminars, conferences, round tables, public sessions, young leader Fellowships and policy programs. It also brings out publications and study reports.
About JetSynthesys:
JetSynthesys is a new-age digital entertainment and technology company with a global foray into three key ecosystems: (a) gaming and esports, (b) digital entertainment, and (c) wellness and livelihoods. With millions of consumers across 180 countries, JetSynthesys builds world-class products, platforms, and services in these three verticals, aiming to touch the lives of billions of consumers. Since its launch in 2014, under the leadership of Rajan Navani (Chairman & Managing Director), JetSynthesys has built a powerful ecosystem of technology, talent, content, and distribution stacks, and is committed to delivering delightful moments to all stakeholders across multiple digital worlds, aptly titled the #Jetverse.
The company is backed by Kris Gopalakrishnan, Adar Poonawalla, Sachin Tendulkar, and the multi-billion-dollar family offices of the promoters of Thermax, Triveni Group, Yohan Poonawalla Group, and DSP Group. With offices in Europe, the UK, and the US, JetSynthesys is a key player in India’s digital landscape. Built on innovation and new-age culture, JetSynthesys is building a digital ecosystem for consumers to be the one-stop solution for all their digital needs. It is perfectly poised to create success stories at scale through made-in-India apps with the best talent available globally, funded by the Indian capital.
JetSynthesys is part of the diversified JetLine Group of Companies, the roots of which originated in the 1930s in Bangkok, Thailand with a presence in India since 1974. Established by the Late Kishinchand Navani in 1937, the growth in Thailand and South-East Asia over several decades has resulted in large-scale manufacturing industries in textiles, packaging, electronics, and real estate development amongst others.
