At the recently concluded CII Goa Annual Meeting 2021, the following have been nominated as the Chairman and Vice Chairman to the CII Goa Council respectively.
Atul Vithal Jadhav is the Managing Director of New Era Shipping Ltd. He graduated from Murgaon Education Society College in BCom and completed his LLB thereafter. Since the age of 18, he handled contract of Bagging & Despatch of Fertilizers in Zuari Industries Ltd, handling about 500 workers, He was President of Goa Barge Owners Association for 11 years. He has been the Vice President of Indian Coastal Conference Shipping Association (It is an Association of Coastal Vessel Owners) and Trustee – Mormugao Port Trust, Vasco for 7 years, He is an Active Member of Rotary Club of Vasco and served on various Committees appointed by Government of Goa and Government of India of an Inland Trade & Coastal Trade.
Swati Salgaocar is a Director at the Vimson Group, founded over 70 years ago in Goa with business interests in mineral development (V.M. Salgaocar and Bro. Pvt. Ltd. – India and Singapore, and V.M. Salgaocar Sales International are in the business of mining, export and trading of iron ore), real estate (mixed-use real estate development in Goa under the brand name Altura Spaces), and financial services (Shivranjani Securities Pvt. Ltd. is Goa’s largest wealth management company and Pyramid Finance Ltd. finances small and medium enterprises). The Group has recently diversified internationally through strategic investments in the Minerals Sector and launched Prospect Mining Studio (Accelerator to support sustainable mining startups in partnership with Newlab, USA). The philanthropic interests of the Group include sports (Salgaocar Football Club founded in 1956 has won several national championships, and its Youth Development and Community Outreach Programs benefit over 600 children a year) and healthcare (V.M. Salgaocar Hospital is a not-for-profit, 120 bed tertiary care, super specialty healthcare centre).
Swati holds a B.A. (Arch.) (Hons.) from Yale University, USA and an M. Arch. from Columbia University, USA. She is a member of the Goa State Council of the Confederation of Indian Industry, Co-Chair of the CII Startups and Innovation Committee (Western Region), a member of the CII National Committee on Mining and the CII National Startups Council. She has been appointed on a Special Task Force constituted by the Department of Industries, Government of Goa to review the Goa Investment Promotion Act as well as a Joint Consultative Group for framing of the Goa State Entrepreneurship Policy.
Swati is a member of the Society and Campus Development Committee of the Goa Institute of Management. She has been the Co-Director of the Yale India Alumni Schools Committee for over 5 years. She is a member of the Young Presidents’ Organisation and the Owner’s Forum. Passionate about art and design, she co-curated “Panjim 175”, a special project as part of the Serendipity Arts Festival 2018.
