Parth Jindal Wiki, Age, Wife, Children, Family, Biography & More

Parth Jindal is an Indian businessman and philanthropist, whose companies function in steel, cement, paints, sports, energy and entrepreneurial assistance. He belongs to the third generation of the Jindal family.

Wiki/Biography

Parth Jindal was born on Saturday, 19 May 1990 (age 32 years; as of 2022) in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. His hometown is Nalwa village in Hisar, Haryana. His zodiac sign is Taurus. He studied at the Cathedral and John Connon School in Mumbai and Sevenoaks School in Kent, England. He completed his Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Economics and Political Science from Brown University in Rhode Island, US in 2012. He completed his MBA from Harvard Business School in Boston, Massachusetts, US in 2016. He worked at Falcon Edge Capital, now Alpha Wave Capital in New York, US.
Parth Jindal during his childhood with his father Sajjan Jindal

Physical Appearance

Height (approx.): 5′ 10″
Hair Colour: Black
Eye Colour: Black

Family

He belongs to a Haryanvi family.

Parents & Siblings

His father’s name is Sajjan Jindal, and his mother’s name is Sangita Jindal. He has 2 sisters, Tarini Jindal Handa and Tanvi Jindal Shete.
Parth Jindal (right) with his father Sajjan Jindal (left) and mother Sangita Jindal
Parth Jindal with his sisters, Tarini Jindal Handa (left) and Tanvi Jindal Shete (right)

Wife & Children

He married his childhood friend Anushree Jasani on 9 May 2016. The couple has a daughter named Ayana and a son named Vivaan.
Parth Jindal with his wife Anushree Jindal

Other Family Members

His grandfather was the late Om Prakash Jindal, who started the Jindal group. He was an MLA and also a minister in the Haryana state government. His grandmother is Savitri Jindal. His uncles are Prithviraj Jindal, Ratan Jindal, and Naveen Jindal. Naveen is also a former MP from Kurukshetra, Haryana.

Career

JSW Cement

Parth Jindal joined JSW Cement group in 2012 as an economic analyst. He worked for 6 months at JFE Steel Japan as an economic analyst. In June 2014, Parth was appointed as the Managing Director of JSW Cement. In April 2018, JSW Cement purchased a 54.44% stake in Shiva Cement Limited. Parth was instrumental in JSW Cement increasing its production capacity at the Dolvi plant in Maharashtra and has opened a plant in Jajpur, Odisha. In 2021, JSW Cement invested $150 million in setting up a clinker unit in Fujairah, United Arab Emirates.

JSW USA

Parth Jindal is the director of JSW USA. JSW USA announced a $1 billion amount to be split between US operations in Ohio and Texas.

JSW Paints

JSW group launched JSW Paints on 2 May 2019 and Parth Jindal became its Managing Director. It is the only company that offers any colour at one price.

JSW Sports

Parth Jindal is the Managing Director of Jindal Sports. Parth Jindal is the chairman of the football team Bengaluru FC, which plays in the Indian Super League. In 2018, Parth became the chairman of the Indian Premier League team Delhi Capitals when JSW Sports purchased a 50% stake from the GMR team. JSW Sports also owns the Indian Pro-Kabaddi team Haryana Steelers. Parth Jindal launched the Inspire Institute of Sports (IIS) in Vijaynagara, Karnataka on 15 August 2018. Sports Authority of India (SAI) recognised IIS as Khelo India accredited development centre of boxing and wrestling.

JSW Venture Fund

Parth Jindal looks over the JSW Venture Fund launched in September 2015. The company has a venture fund of Rs100 crores and invests in startups working in the space and technology sector.

JSW Energy

On 28 October 2022, Parth Jindal was appointed the Additional and Non-Executive, Non-Independent Director of the company JSW Energy.

Philanthropy – Project Yashoda

Parth Jindal supervised the creation of a mobile application that can track the nutrition levels of children below six years of age. It was initially tested in 3 talukas of Palghar, Maharashtra. Local women given the moniker Yashoda were trained on how to use the application, take pictures of mother and child and scan their iris. The application provides real-time information about the nutrition of the child and enables doctors and government officials to take necessary action when required. As the application helped to bring down malnutrition among children, the then-CM of Maharashtra, Devendra Fadnavis, ordered this technique to be implemented in the whole state.

Facts/Trivia

• His father Sajjan Jindal advised Parth at the age of 16 years to start eating non-vegetarian food as the business requirements will take him to different parts of the world. Both of them come from a strictly vegetarian family; however, Parth started eating non-vegetarian food and likes seafood.

• He likes to play Squash, is a district-level table tennis player, and is a fitness enthusiast.

• He was featured in the list of GQ’s 50 most influential Young Indians in 2018.

• Under his leadership, JSW Sports won the Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puruskar in 2018 given by the government of India and the Best Company promoting sports category of the FICCI India Sports Awards in 2019.

Proud and honored to receive the Rastriya Khel Protsahan Purushkar by @rashtrapatibhvn – I promise you this sir that we @jswsports and @IIS_Vijayanagar have just begun our work and will do all that we can to establish India as a sporting powerhouse in Olympic sports pic.twitter.com/B3e6nKp6xW
— Parth Jindal (@ParthJindal11) September 25, 2018