![]() Having deep-rooted values for the country, Mr. They witnessed struggle at a very young age. The family was stationed at Lahore during partition, one of the toughest times of Indian History. Khanna’s father was in Railways, a transferable job where they moved around a lot. He has been bestowed with prestigious awards like Sir Visvesvaraya, Inspiring Leader from Indian Express, and RBI Lifetime Achievement Award among many others. Khanna has authored books on health and various life experiences. He was the national chairman of the Indian Institution of Production Engineers (2003-2005) chairman of CII, western region-central Gujarat (1992-1994) on the managing committees of Indo German Chamber Indo American Chamber Joint Business Councils -Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry Bangalore Management Association Institute of Engineering Technology (UK) etc.Ī voracious reader, Mr. Khanna was actively involved in many national and state-level professional bodies. He has extensively traveled across the world (49 countries), and he has been instrumental in the turnaround of three large manufacturing Companies. He has had the opportunity to be associated with some of the top industrialists – like JRD Tata, S Moolgaonkar, C K Birla, L M Thapar, Ratan Tata, Hrishikesh Mafatlal, during his work tenure. Khanna was the Chairman, MD and CEO of various large corporations for over 16 years. With over 61 years of corporate experience, Mr. Even today at the age of 85, he works for over 12 hours a day, striving how to better the community and society he lives in. Khanna has donated over seven hundred thousand US Dollars for heart surgeries. That is when he decided to become a full-fledged philanthropist and set up Need Heart Foundation. Khanna underwent an angioplasty, his encounter in the hospital made him realize the many children and adults in India die due to lack of access to healthcare. Having returned from a UN assignment in 2001, when Mr. Today with their retail and garment manufacturing business employing over 1300 employees, Manohar Chatlani is a retail legend to track. Manohar works with a vision of firmly establishing the brand – ‘Soch’ as one of the preferred choices of women ethnic wear for Indian consumers. His hobbies include listening to old Hindi songs and spends quite a lot of his time devoted in social work. HAH has influenced other likeminded organizations in Mumbai, Ludhiana, Kolkata & Cayman Islands to follow the same model and do similar works Devi Shetty (who is his idol) supported HAH by extending huge discounts for the patients sponsored by HAH. He was a Director in Narayana Hrudayalaya for 5 years and Dr. He is trying to prevent this from happening to as many as he can. This is a problem which affects the vision of premature babies and some of them will go blind for life. His current passion is ROP (Retinopathy of Prematurity). Not only is he fervent about his business of retail and manufacturing, he always believes in extending a helping hand or a compassionate word. Till date, the Foundation has supported 15,000 such heart surgeries with a sponsorship of above 45 crores in the last seventeen years. Manohar Chatlani is not only a businessman but also spends a great deal of his personal time doing philanthropic work, sponsoring over 100 lifesaving heart surgeries a month for the poor and needy through ‘Have A Heart Foundation’. Since then Soch has grown to a Nationwide chain with 150 storesĪpart from being an avid retailer, Manohar Chatlani is a man of many firsts– he was the first to have a Department Store in Bangalore catering to the full family, first to have Half Price Sales where customers queued up to get into the store and first to manufacture Fibre Glass Mannequins in India. The 2 nd & 3 rd stores were stared in 2008 & 2009. His sons Vinay & Sandeep joined the business in 2003 & 2006 and the family started the first Soch store in 2005. With immense passion for retail and experience of more than 50 years in retail sector, business development, leadership roles, Manohar brings strong commercial experience and in-depth knowledge of the Indian retail market. Manohar Chatlani comes from a family with retail background and has been a retail enthusiast all his life. He started his career with ‘Favourite Shop’ an iconic shop in Commercial Street, Bangalore which was established in 1950 by his Father and Uncle. Manohar Chatlani is the founder and MD of Soch. Manohar D Chatlani (Manu) is the man behind the revolution of the ethnic fast fashion category in the retail market in India. Managing Director, Soch Apparels Private Limited
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