Sudhir Mulji passes away

Sudhir Jayantilal Mulji, deputy chairman and joint managing director of Great Eastern Bombay, died in London Friday night. He was 67.

A Business Standard columnist from 1994 and a director of Business Standard Limited from 1998, Mulji started his career in 1959 as a trainee manager with Shree Changdeo Sugar Mills & Bhopal Sugar Industries and rose to become the chief executive of Great Eastern London and chairman of Steamship Mutual Underwriting Association.

In 1986, when Rajiv Gandhi was the Prime Minister, Mulji was appointed the chairman and managing director of State Trading Corporation of India. That stint lasted for a year.

He was also an honorary fellow, Nuffield College, since 1998. Mulji is survived by his wife, Rosaleen Elizabeth Guinness, two sons, Sachin and Kabir, and two daughters, Sangita and Gopali.