Naveen Raju is General Counsel and Executive Vice President at Mahindra & Mahindra and a member of the Group Executive Board. In his role as General Counsel, he leads the in-house legal team and provides assurance on legal and regulatory compliance across the Group’s global businesses and operations.

He has over two decades of experience working with leading Indian private sector companies including ACC, Crompton Greaves and Reliance Industries Limited. He moved to Mahindra in 2014 and has been instrumental in creating core internal competencies, integrating the legal function with group businesses and promoting greater adoption of technology.

Mr. Raju is a Director on the Board of Mahindra Logistics Limited and its affiliate companies, Mahindra Automotive North America Inc. and other group entities.

In his professional capacity, he is a member of the Board of Directors at the Association of Corporate Counsel, which is the world’s largest in-house counsel community with over 40,000 members across 85 countries. He is also co-chair of the legal affairs and IPR committee at the Bombay Chambers of Commerce and Industry.

He has been listed in “The Legal 500 GC Powerlist: India 2018” and the Chambers & Partners listing of “GC Influencers” in 2019.

Mr. Raju graduated from the National Law School, Bangalore.