About Manoj Mohanka
A passion for recognising promising business ideas and acumen makes me a successful investor. This ability cuts across sectors enabling me to identify a sound proposition in any domain. I have honed this expertise by cutting my teeth in wide-ranging businesses such as market research, exporting garments to the USA and pharmaceuticals to the USSR, running a mini – steel plant and raising foreign capital for Indian businesses.
I have invested in several companies in different domains. Deccan Chronicle and TV 18 in the media space, 3D Technopack and Artevea Digital in the manufacturing sector, Magus in customer dialogue, Batchmates.com and WoNoBo.com in the internet space. In all these companies I have played a variety of roles from turn around to formulating business strategy, building management teams, raising capital, negotiating foreign collaborations and IPOs.
I have been invited to be on the board of a wide range of companies such as Scomi International, West Bengal Industrial Development Corporation, Indian Terrain Fashions Limited and India Carbon & Titagarh Wagons Ltd.
I have been the head of many prestigious business associations such as Calcutta Chamber of Commerce, Young Presidents Organization & served on the Economic Affairs Committee of FICCI, Boards of Eastern Institute of Management and Indo-Italian Chamber of Commerce. I have been keen on sports too & been President of Calcutta Racket Club, India’s oldest squash club. In addition, I run a charitable trust for the education of Muslim girl children.
I hold a masters degree in Strategic Marketing from the Michael Smurfit Grad School of Business and have been a Gurukul Chevening Fellow at the London School of Economics.
He has been a Non-Executive & Independent Director of India Carbon Limited since June 29, 2006. Mr. Mohanka serves as Director of Television Eighteen Mauritius Limited. He served as a Director of Infomedia Press Limited from August 21, 2008 to October 14, 2015.
He served as a Director of TV18 Broadcast Limited from September 7, 2007 to October 14, 2015. He has held various positions in industry forums Co-Chairman, Economic Affairs Committee of FICCI (ER), Committee Member, Indo-ltalian Chamber of Commerce, Board of Governors, Eastern Institute of Management and Chairman of Young President Organization, Kolkata etc. Mr. Mohanka has been a Guest Lecturer at V.G. School of Management, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur and has articles published in business newspapers/internet portalson Double Taxation Agreement Treaties.
Mr. Mohanka is also a Chevening Scholar from The London School of Economics. He holds a B. Com (Hons.) from St. Xavier’s College and a Master’s Degree from the Michael Smurfit Graduate School of Business.
Some Articles
Female Genital Mutilation: India’s Well Kept Secret
Women of the Dawoodi Bohra Muslim sect during a mass marriage function in Mumbai. The Dawoodi Bohra sect still carries out female genital mutilation. (Photo: Reuters)
(The Supreme Court on 9 July questioned the practice of female genital mutilation of minor girls in the Dawoodi Bohra Muslim commun[…]Read more
Bengal Global Business Summit: Lessons for Mamata to Revive State
West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee, Finance Minister Amit Mitra, Pranav Adani Managing Director, Adani Wilmar and Chairman of RP Sanjiv Goenka Group Sanjeev Goenka at Bengal Global Business Summit 2018, in Kolkata, on Wednesday. (Photo: PTI)
Will any of the ‘big boys’ actually put their money where […]Read more
Where Would India Store Indus Water Once it Stops the Supply?
I think everyone in India is making too much of a song and dance about our “surgical strike”. One can justify it as an emotional outburst as public mood was frayed and action was demanded from the government. It was also clear that the noises being made by India on the repudiation of the Indus W[…]Read more
Bengal Government’s Half-Hearted Tribute to the Uri Martyrs
Sangram (battle/war) appears to be the same as Sangrampur for our Hon’ble CM and the West Bengal (WB) government. In December 2011, Rs 2 lakh was granted to each of the families who had lost a family member in the hooch tragedy in Sangrampur of the 24 Parganas south district of West Bengal. If[…]Read more
Alas, the Singur Victory for Mamata is a Huge Loss for Bengal!
Many of you, particularly those who like old Hindi songs would be familiar with “badal jaye agar mali, chaman hota nahi khali, bahare phir bhi ati hai, bahare phir bhi aayengi, badal jaye agar mali chaman hota nahi khali”: lyrics from a hit 1966 song by Mahendra Kapoor with Rizvi’s lyrics. Ala[…]Read more
Autonomy for States Via Article 370 Won’t Threaten ‘Idea of India’
The single biggest grouse against India by the Kashmiris has been the dilution of Article 370 over the decades, i.e. the erosion of the State’s powers in relation to the Centre. The best way to ‘skin this cat’ is more autonomy for each and every state of India including Jammu and Kashmir – g[…]Read more