Mr. Ajay Kumar Sharma

Managing Director

Mr. Ajay Kumar Sharma has been with Bajaj Hindusthan Sugar Limited (BHSL) since 2016. A seasoned professional with a career spanning over three decades, Mr. Sharma has worked extensively in the areas of cane procurement and development, liaising with farmers and government officials, supply chain management and operations. During his tenure at BHSL, his expertise in the aforementioned areas has led to minimising the "cut to crush" time, which in turn led to significant improvements in the operational performance of the company's Bilai unit.

Also, during his tenure the said unit achieved the highest ever recoveries during 2018−19, 2019−20 and 2020−21 seasons, and increased high sugar variety percentage cane from 25 per cent to 98 per cent, which contributed to tremendous growth in Pol percentage. Additionally, Mr. Sharma implemented a number of measures which helped optimise costs and brought increased agility in plant operations.

Mr. Sharma holds an MScin Agriculture and an LLB. He worked in a number of sugar firms including Triveni Engineering Works, SBEC (Modi Group), RBNS Sugar, Mawana Sugar, and Modi Sugar, before moving to BHSL.