Rajan Navani is the Chairman & Managing Director of the globally diversified 90-year-old Jetline Group with interests in packaging, textiles, real estate and Consumer tech.
Rajan is personally leading the group’s most innovative company, JetSynthesys. JetSynthesys is a new-age digital entertainment and technology company with a portfolio of world-class products, platforms, and services touching the daily digital lives of 1 in 3 Indians and millions around the globe. Under his leadership and strategic direction, JetSynthesys has built diversified business ecosystems for Gen Z audiences in video gaming and esports, music and entertainment, creator economy, wellness and livelihoods, fintech and social commerce by harnessing advanced capabilities in Gen AI, blockchain and AR/VR/XR amongst other innovative technologies.
Rajan is currently the Chairman of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII)’s National Council on India@100 and Co-Chair of the India@100 Foundation, through which he is working with multiple stakeholders, including government, corporates and civil society, in helping build a Viksit Bharat, the developed India of 2047, 100 years since its Independence. He is the Co-Chair of CII’s National Media & Entertainment Committee and National President of the Indian Digital Gaming Society (IDGS).
He is a Global Board Member of the US-India Business Council (USIBC) and a member of the Purdue-India Executive Council. He is the Founding Board Member of Indiaspora, a powerful network linking the Indian American Diaspora with India. He is Co-Chair of Evolve, a Silicon Valley initiative linking Global innovation to India. Rajan is also playing an active role in helping shape the Global US-India partnership on the government and business front.
Rajan is a member of the India Japan Business Leaders Forum and India Sweden Business Leaders Forum, constituted by the Government of India. He also Co-Chairs the Singapore India Strategic Dialogue and the India Japan Forum. He is also a Founding Board Member of one of the world’s largest informal institutional investment platforms for India, 256 Network and Giving Pi, which is building the largest platform in India for family business philanthropy.
He holds a master’s degree in electrical engineering from Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA, under a NASA grant, majoring in Digital Satellite Imaging and Remote Sensing graduating with the award for outstanding academic achievement. A gold medalist at the University of Poona, India in the Bachelors of Electronics and Telecommunications program from College of Engineering Pune (COEP), Rajan also has a diploma in Business Management. He worked with NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Centre, Maryland, USA before joining the family business.
