Mr. Jayant Narayan Godbole

Shri Jayant Narayan Godbole is a Chemical Engineer from IIT, Powai (Mumbai) and has participated and completed Financial Management and Corporate Long Range Planning Courses from Bajaj Institute University of Mumbai and IIM Bangalore respectively. He has above 38 years experience in various fields ranging from operation of small sick units in India to conceiving, implementing and operating mega projects abroad.

He retired as Chairman of IDBI in 2005. During his stints with IDBI & also with IIBI he was directly over looking functions including Zonal Head, Corporate Finance, restructuring & rehabilitation of sick units, Venture capital, merchant banking and investors relation.

He stabilized the Corporate Debt Restructuring(CDR) mechanism in India as Chairman of Empowered Group. In that capacity he was instrumental in preventing corporates with banking exposure of around 15 billion dollars from becoming non performing assets.

He has authored various articles/papers on Industrial Sickness and Pollution Control. He was also the Nominee Director of IDBI on the Boards of various reputed companies.

During his deputation to State Government of Sabah Malaysia as Consultant Advisor he had been associated in conceiving one billion dollar gas based Complex and half a billion dollar timber and paper complex.