Vinati Saraf Mutreja Wiki, Age, Husband, Children, Family, Biography & More

Vinati Saraf Mutreja is an Indian businesswoman who joined her father’s business, Vinati Organic Ltd (VOL) (a chemical manufacturing company), in 2006. The earnings and profit revenues of VOL increased from Rs. 66 crores to Rs. 1,000 crores after Vinati took over her father’s business, and since then, she was in the limelight of the business world. Under the leadership of Vinati, VOL was listed as Asia’s 200 best under a Billion Dollar company by Forbes magazine. After 12 years of dedicated work at VOL, Vinati became the CEO & the Managing Director of the company.

Wiki/Biography

Vinati Saraf Mutreja was born in 1984 (age 37 years; as of 2021). Vinati did executive education from IMD Business School, Lausanne, Switzerland. She received a Bachelor of Applied Science degree in Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 2005. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Economics, Finance, and General from The Wharton School, Pennsylvania in 2005. She did the Owner president Management program at Harvard Business School in 2019.

Physical Appearance

Height(approx.): 5’3″

Hair Colour: Black

Eye Colour: Black

Family

Parents & Siblings

Vinati’s father, Vinod Saraf, is the Chairman of Vinati Organics Ltd., and her mother is Kavita Saraf. Her sister Viral Saraf Mittal is a part of the management at Vinati Organics.

Husband & Children

Vinati Saraf Mutreja is married to Mohit Mutreja who runs an algorithmic trading firm that specializes in high-frequency trading. The couple has two children.

Career

Vinati Saraf Mutreja is a member of The Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) & Young President Organization (YPO). According to Vinati, she joined her father’s business immediately after returning to India from Pennsylvania. Thereafter, she started learning the basic operations of her father’s business. In an interview, she said-

I started from the ground up spending time in different divisions and learning about different business functions.”

Vinati was given a challenging task by her father, Vinod Saraf, to convert an ATBS plant (a part of VOL company) from a loss-making to a world-class unit. This task was provided to Vinati to motivate her to work independently on the ATBS plant. In a conversation with a media house, Vinati narrated how ATBS turned into a profit-making unit in 2019 when she started working hard on it in 2002. She further stated that there were merely two organizations in the world that were manufacturing the same chemical product that the ATBS plant was manufacturing. She said-

We started the ATBS unit in 2002 and because we were not getting the right quality, we were thinking of shutting it down or selling it off. We were a small company then and had exhausted all our resources and expertise available. There are only two other companies making this product in the world. So we were in a fix since this was a niche market.  But I managed to bring a consultant on board who helped streamline processes.”

When Vinati was working independently on the ATBS plant, she managed to connect and fasten long-term business relations and contracts with the global MNC’s. These MNC’s signed a long term sales contract with VOL company. Till 2006, ATBS was selling its products in the Indian market only, but now, about 75% of its sales dealings are derived from exports. In an interview, Vinati explained the reason how VOL had improved its productivity while cutting costs of production. She revealed that the best and most effective use of batch timings resulted in increased capacity with minimum funding. She said-

We focused on cutting costs and improving productivity by optimizing the batch timings. This resulted in increased capacity with minimal investment. There was also the considerable effort put in for improving the quality by engaging international R&D experts which paid off.”

In 2019, the ATBS unit became the biggest portion of the VOL company in manufacturing its products globally under the management policies of Vinati Saraf Mutreja. In an interview, Vinati indicated that the work capacity of the ATBS plant was boosted through improved and high-quality productivity and manufacturing strategies. She explained-

Better quality, higher productivity accompanied by annual contracts buoyed up sales and we started expanding capacity at regular intervals, usually pre-empting demand.”

In 2006, VOL had approximately RS. 20 Crores of market capitalization, which grew over Rs. 8000 Crores in 2019. In an interview, Vinati shared that she had the vision to increase the company’s turnover and to stretch its market potentiality globally. She said-

Our vision is to grow at 20-25 percent year-on-year, essentially double revenues in three years. We are still a very small company in the chemical space. Most mid-sized chemical companies have revenues of Rs 3,000/4,000 crore. We have better margins but need to increase our footprint since our existing products have limited market potential.”

On many renowned Indian Business TV News channels, Vinati has often seen giving investment advice to the investors.

Awards, Honours, Achievements

• 2019: Vinati Saraf Mutreja was chosen as the Outstanding Woman Business Leader for 2018 by the jury of The Economic Times Family Business Awards.

  Vinati Saraf Mutreja while receiving outstanding Business Women Leadership Award at The Economics Times Business Family Awards in 2019

•  2019: She was also named in Forbes India W-Power Trailblazers in 2019, and in the same year, she was also listed on Economic Times Women ahead list.