Samir Jain (Vice Chairman and Managing Director of BCCL)
Sister
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Career
Debut
Film (Producer): Talvar
Awards, Honours, Achievements
2009: Rajiv Gandhi Award
2013: IMPACT Person Of The Year
Controversies
In 2012, Vineet Jain was caught in a conversation with Ken Auletta stating that βWe are not in the newspaper business, we are in the advertising business.β
Vineet's willingness for accepting black money from a βclientβ was exposed in 2018's 'Operation 136 Part 2,' a sting operation by Cobrapost.
Favourites
Hobbies
Travelling, Skiing, Playing Tennis, Reading, Writing
Some Lesser Known Facts
1. He was born into a Sahu Jain Family.
2. He holds the positions of Managing Director and Chairman at The Times of India and Bennett Coleman & Co. Limited.
3. He joined BCCL in the year 1986.
4. Since 28 April 2003, he serves as the Chairman of Times Internet Ltd and Bharat Nidhi Limited.
5. He is the Non-Executive Chairman of Mirchi Movies Limited.
6. From 14 April 2001 to 27 December 2008, he served as a Director of HDFC Bank Limited.
7. He received the Entrepreneur of the Year Award 2013 from the Bombay Management Association.
8. In 2014, he awarded himself a record salary of βΉ46.37 Crore in Indian Corporate history.
9. He was ranked 23rd in India's 50 Most Powerful People of 2017 by India Today magazine.
10. Apart from his business roles, he is a movie critic and shares film reviews.
11. He has produced notable films like Talvar, Bareilly Ki Barfi, Raazi, and Junglee.
12. The Times Group operates several major newspapers including The Times of India, Mumbai Mirror, The Economic Times, Navbharat Times, and magazines Femina and Filmfare.
13. Vineet Jain gave a speech at the Global Business Summit 2018 in New Delhi.
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