Vineet Jain
{{Short description|Indian businessman (born 1966)}}
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| name = Vineet Jain
| image =File:Vineet Jain 2024.jpg
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| caption = Jain in 2016 at the 61st Britannia Filmfare Awards.
| birth_date = {{birth based on age as of date |49|2017|04|14}}{{cite news|title=India's 50 powerful people|url=http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/india-today-top-50-powerful-indians-mukesh-ambani-ratan-tata-kumar-mangalam-birla-gautam-adani-anand-mahindra-srk-amitabh-bacchan/1/928939.html|publisher=India Today|date=April 14, 2017|archive-date=17 April 2017|access-date=21 April 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170417122537/http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/india-today-top-50-powerful-indians-mukesh-ambani-ratan-tata-kumar-mangalam-birla-gautam-adani-anand-mahindra-srk-amitabh-bacchan/1/928939.html|url-status=live}}
| birth_place = Calcutta, India
| nationality = Indian
| citizenship = Indian
| occupation = MD of
The Times Group
| networth =
| spouse =
| children =
| parents = Indu Jain
Ashok Kumar Jain
| relatives = Samir Jain
Sahu Ramesh Chandra Jain
Sahu Shanti Prasad Jain
Ramkrishna Dalmia
}}
Vineet Jain (born 1966) is an Indian entrepreneur and current Managing Director of Bennett, Coleman & Co. Limited (B.C.C.L.), India's oldest and largest media group in India,{{Citation needed|date=April 2025}} also known as The Times Group.
Early life and education
Vineet Jain was born in Kolkata. He graduated from the American College of Switzerland.{{cite news | url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/10/08/citizens-jain | title=Citizens Jain | publisher=New Yorker | archive-date=20 April 2020 | access-date=27 May 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200420031405/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/10/08/citizens-jain | url-status=live }}
The Times Group
Jain joined The Times Group in 1987. He is the great-grandson of Ramkrishna Dalmia, the founder of The Times Group and Dalmia Group. Jain's grandfather Shanti Prasad Jain, father Ashok Jain and mother Indu Jain all served as chairperson of B.C.C.L. His sister Nandita Judge also worked at the company.{{cite news| url=https://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/2001/05/10/stories/0210000g.htm | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021128141323/http://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/2001/05/10/stories/0210000g.htm | url-status=dead | archive-date=2002-11-28 | work=The Hindu | date=2001-05-10 | title=Probe ordered into copter crash}}
Jain handles the day to day operations of the group's entertainment and TV businesses.{{Cite web |title=Leading from the front: Vineet Jain - Exchange4media |url=https://www.exchange4media.com/media-print-news/leading-from-the-front-vineet-jain-127675.html |access-date=2024-02-02 |website=Indian Advertising Media & Marketing News – exchange4media |date=29 May 2023 |language=en |archive-date=2 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240202004054/https://www.exchange4media.com/media-print-news/leading-from-the-front-vineet-jain-127675.html |url-status=live }}
Family and personal life
Awards
- 'Best Industrialist of the year' Rajiv Gandhi Award in 2009.{{cite news|url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/company/corporate-trends/vineet-jain-wins-rajiv-gandhi-award/articleshow/4912745.cms|title=Vineet Jain wins Rajiv Gandhi Award|newspaper=The Economic Times |date=20 August 2009|access-date=18 April 2019}}
- Impact Person of the Year Award in 2013.{{cite news|url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/vineet-jain-wins-impact-person-of-the-year-award/articleshow/26987655.cms|title=Vineet Jain wins Impact Person of the Year Award|date=7 December 2013|work=The Times of India|access-date=8 April 2019}}
- Entrepreneur of the Year Award from The Bombay Management Association in 2013.{{cite news|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/Times-Group-MD-Vineet-Jain-is-Entrepreneur-of-the-Year/articleshow/18900582.cms|title=Times Group MD Vineet Jain is Entrepreneur of the Year – The Times of India|date=11 March 2013|work=The Times of India|access-date=8 April 2019}}
- Media Person of the Year award from International Advertising Association in 2015{{cite news|url=https://www.exchange4media.com/advertising-news/vineet-jainaroon-purieuday-shankar-and-cvl-srinivas-bag-top-honours-at-3rd-iaa-leadership-awards-59735.html|title=Vineet Jain, Aroon Purie, Uday Shankar and CVL Srinivas bag top honours at 3rd IAA Leadership Awards – Exchange 4 Media|date=20 April 2015|work=Exchange 4 media|access-date=8 April 2019|archive-date=8 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190408095843/https://www.exchange4media.com/advertising-news/vineet-jainaroon-purieuday-shankar-and-cvl-srinivas-bag-top-honours-at-3rd-iaa-leadership-awards-59735.html|url-status=live}}{{cite web |url=http://iaaindiachapter.org/Event.aspx?pn=IAA-Leadership-Awards-2015 |title=IAA Leadership Awards 2015 |access-date=18 April 2019 |archive-date=12 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190412093450/http://iaaindiachapter.org/Event.aspx%3Fpn%3DIAA-Leadership-Awards-2015 |url-status=live }}
- Art Karat Award in 2018.{{Cite web|url=http://www.millenniumpost.in/features/art-karat-celebrates-its-30th-anniversary-284206|title=Art Karat celebrates its 30th anniversary|date=9 February 2018|website=Millennium Post|access-date=8 April 2019}}
- ITA Sterling Icon of Indian Entertainment Award in Media category in 2009.{{Cite web|url=http://indiantelevisionacademy.com/winners-2018/|title=Indian Television Academy Awards Winners 2018|access-date=18 April 2019}}{{Cite web|url=http://asiaone.co.in/|title=World's greatest leaders 2017-18|access-date=18 April 2019|archive-date=8 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190408120728/http://asiaone.co.in/|url-status=live}}
References
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Category:Businesspeople from Delhi
Category:Indian newspaper publishers (people)
Category:Indian mass media owners
Category:The Times Group people
Category:20th-century Indian businesspeople