A Science graduate with over 33 years experience in Textile
exports, full-fledged Money Changing, Housing and Consumer
Finance, and Wind-farm / Hydro-power development, Chetan
Mehra has overseen the Weizmann Group’s steady growth and
ensured its profitable business record. Active for over a
decade in mentoring other Weizmann companies who are engaged
in the renewable energy sector, he has also engineered
financial and technical JVs with leading business houses for
wind-farm development and manufacture of wind-electric
generators. He has been responsible for financial tie-ups in
the form of capital-infusion in housing finance by
international financial institutions and public sector
banks. Mehra has also successfully promoted Weizmann Homes
Ltd. till the divestment of its stake in favour of AIG, the
world's largest insurance group as well as the sale of
Weizmann Forex, the money changing business to Nasdaq listed
Ebix.
He is the President of the Renewable Energy Developers
Association of Maharashtra (REDAM), Secretary of the
National Council of Indian Wind-power Association and a
Governing Member of the World Institute of Sustainable
Energy (WISE). With his considerable experience in the
financial services and renewable energy sectors, Chetan
Mehra has served on the financial services and energy
sub-committees of the CII and was the Chairman of Laxmi
Finance and Leasing Companies Commercial Premises
Co-operative Society Ltd. which implemented the commercial
project in the prestigious Bandra-Kurla complex in Mumbai.
He is also an ex-Chairman of the CII-GBC Sub-Committee for
Development of Wind Energy