Managing Director

Mr. Kishore Jain was born in Nellore and has been in gold jewellery business since 1975. Being a very strict and disciplined businessman, he quickly made a name for trustworthiness and quality. However, consolidating the business in Nellore was not enough for this ambitious young man. After a detailed study of jewellery markets in India and abroad, he decided to open his first retail outlet at NSC Bose Road, Chennai, in the year 1989. In 1992, the Government of India accorded the company the status of “Export House”. In 1993 Mr. Kishore Jain built a professionally managed outlet in Cathedral Road, an up market area in Chennai. The Cathedral Road outlet has eventually become the flagship store of Khazana and the complex housing Khazana Jewellery (Khazana Plaza) has also become an important landmark in Chennai. His next retail outlet was opened in the heart of Gold market at T.Nagar, Chennai, in the year 1998 in place of N.S.C. Bose Road outlet. After consolidating in Chennai he turned his focus on rest of the South Indian markets and opened his third showroom in Hyderabad in 2003. In the following years, he opened his showrooms in Visakhapatnam and Vijayawada in 2004 and 2005 respectively. Due to an increased public demand and encouragement he opened his sixth showroom in Hyderabad (Somajiguda) in 2006. Seventh and eighth showrooms were opened in Bangalore on 28th of June 2006; one at Commercial Street and the other at Jayanagar. Khazana opened its ninth showroom in Tirupathi on 09 may 2007, its fifth showroom in Andhra Pradesh. Khazana’s 10th showroom was opened in Mangalore on 25-Jul-2007, its third showroom in Karnataka. Khazana opened its 11th showroom in Guntur on 13-Oct-2007, its sixth showroom in Andhra Pradesh. Khazana's 12th showroom was opened in Coimbatore on 28-Feb-2008, its third showroom in Tamilnadu. Khazana opened its 13th showroom in Kakinada on 12-Mar-2008, its seventh showroom in Andhra Pradesh. Khazana's 14th showroom was opened in Salem on 03-May-2008, its fourth showroom in Tamilnadu. Khazana opened its 15th showroom in Kukatpally, Hyderabad on 11-May-2008, its eighth showroom in Andhra Pradesh. Khazana opened its 16th showroom in Bhimavaram on 14-Jul-2008, its ninth showroom in Andhra Pradesh. Khazana opened its 17th showroom in Rajahmundry on 01-Jul-2009, its tenth showroom in Andhra Pradesh.

Head - HR

G. M. Shrikanth holds a Bachelor's Degree in Science and a Master's in Personnel Management and Industrial Relations and started as a Personnel Officer from Dec 1995 to March 2001 in Spic Petrochemicals Ltd. He served as the Executive Manager (Personnel) in Fisher Xomox Sanmar Ltd and later joined Style Spa Furniture Ltd as Manager - HR and Customer Service from July 2002 to Jan 2005.

Head Finance

A. Kannan holds a B.Com (Hons) degree from Calcutta University and ACS with 11 years of post qualification experience (including 6 years in retail domain) in areas such as finance, taxation, internal audit and company secretary. Major previous assignments include 4 years with Style Spa Furniture Ltd (KK Birla Group - Nov'00 to Aug'04) as Deputy Manager - Finance, 4 years with Upasana Finance Ltd (TVS Group - Jun'95 to May'99) as Senior Executive - Finance.

Head - Purchase & Admin

P. Dattatrai holds B.Sc Chemistry with MBA in Materials Management from IIMM and Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration with Graduate Diploma in Packaging Technology from IIP. He spent quality time for 6 years as the Asst. Manager in Sears Electronics Ltd and another 3 years as Asst. Manager for TTK Pharma. Mr. Dattatrai remained as the Sr. General Manager for 11 years from 1995 to 2006 in Amruthanjan Ltd. He has experience in handling Purchasing, Stores & Logistics functions of Supply Chain Management with additional involvement in Packaging Development and Quality Control.

Head - IT

M. Narasimha Rao holds Master of Computer Applications (MCA) degree from IGNOU with 9 years of experience in areas such as Hardware, Software, Networking and Storage. He also had a good working exposure with ERP packages like SAP, POS products and Oracle. From Jan 1999 to Nov 2005, Mr. Rao served at Rain Calcining Ltd (R.C.L) as an Incharge, IT.

Sr. Manager - Marketing

V. Mohan Babu a B.E. (Anna university), M.B.A. (REC Trichy) holder with 14 years of post qualification experience served in various marketing organizations like Sara Lee, RPG cellular, CavinKare etc. Varied experience in Brand management, Marketing & Sales functions in FMCG, Telecom and Durable industry.

Company Secretary

Rachna Gupta holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Delhi University, and a professional degree of Company Secretary, duly registered as an A.C.S., from the Institute of Company Secretaries of India. Her experience spans over 6 years in the corporate field with 4 years of post qualification experience as an Assistant Company Secretary with Kalpataru Properties (Thane) Private Limited. She has worked in organizations with business interests as diverse as Construction and Service Sector, of which few are listed on the Stock Exchange.