Dr. Anish Shah

Dr. Anish Shah is the Group CEO and Managing Director of the Mahindra Group. His role as Group CEO includes oversight of all Group businesses, which employ 260,000+ associates across 20 industries and 100+ countries. His primary focus is on nurturing a purpose-driven organization, establishing tech leadership in each industry and driving value creation across businesses.

Under Anish’s leadership, the Group is reigniting value creation with exponential growth across multiple businesses and prudent capital allocation. Anish believes that “purpose drives profits”. He is the custodian of Mahindra’s Rise philosophy, of driving positive change in the lives of our communities to enable them to Rise. And he is championing the Mahindra Group’s efforts to play a leadership role in Women Empowerment and Sustainability.

Prior to joining the Mahindra Group, Anish was President and CEO of GE Capital India from 2009-14, where he led the transformation of the business, including a turnaround of its SBI Card joint venture. His career at GE spanned 14 years, during which he held several leadership positions at GE Capital’s US and global units. He has also led Bank of America’s US Debit Products business and worked with Bain & Company in Boston and Citibank in Mumbai.

Anish was appointed as President of FICCI in 2024, leading one of India’s oldest and largest industry bodies. Currently, he co-Chairs the India-Australia CEO Forum and the India Alliance of CEOs for Climate Change. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the International Business Council at the World Economic Forum, the India-Singapore Business Roundtable and the NITI Frontier Tech Hub Expert Council for AI. He was the Chair of the Automotive Governors Council at the World Economic Forum from 2022-24 and a member of UK Investment Council from 2021-24.

Under his leadership, the Mahindra Group received the prestigious ‘Company of the Year’ award from Economic Times in 2024. In the same year, Anish was honoured as the Entrepreneurial CEO at EY’s Entrepreneur of the Year Awards and celebrated as Fortune India’s Best CEO in 2023.

Anish holds a Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon’s Tepper School of Business and a Post-Graduate Diploma in Management from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. His interests include sports (particularly Cricket and American Football), reading and travel.