Mrs. Sandra Shroff

Mrs. Sandra R Shroff is the Ex-Vice Chairperson of UPL Limited, one of the fastest-growing Agrochemical Companies in India today. The Company was set up in 1969 in Vapi, Gujarat. Today it has a turnover of around USD 5 billion with more than 27 Plants spread over India, UK, Holland, France, Argentina, Vietnam, Japan, Australia, etc.

She is also a Director in Enviro Technology Limited & Bharuch Enviro Infrastructure Limited and Industrial Waste Management Companies.   Along with the growth of UPL Group Companies, Mrs. Shroff has been closely associated with Chemexcil, ICMA (now known as ICC), and has been instrumental in solving the problems faced by the Chemical Industry throughout India. She is also associated with FICCI, Assochem, and is the President of Burns Association of India.

Mrs. Shroff has been instrumental in the rapid industrial growth at Ankleshwar and Vapi over the last four decades, has actively taken up the provision of Social Infrastructure such as Hospitals and Schools, is the Trustee of the Gnyan Dham Vapi Charitable Trust, Chairman of Ankleshwar Industrial Development Society, Chairman of Sandraben Nursing College and Ankleshwar Rotary Educational Society. These trusts have established Schools, Colleges, and Hospitals – amongst the best in South Gujarat.

Mrs. Shroff, through her Gnyan Dham School, has adopted a Model Eklavya School at Ahwa in the Dangs District which has since become one of the best Eklavya Schools in Gujarat. Mrs. Shroff is involved in the social and welfare activities such as the building of village schools, providing toilets for schools around Vapi, Ankleshwar, and Jammu, providing tube wells to villages, and training tribal farmers with better methods of farming and agriculture, in their fields and at her own Farmers Training Centre at Vapi. Mrs. Shroff is a member of the National Integration Council which is attended by the Prime Minister and Chaired by the Home Minister.

Mrs. Shroff is Chairperson of Ankleshwar Rotary Education (ARES).  Ankleshwar Rotary Education (ARES) is sponsoring body of UPL University of Sustainable Technology.   Mrs. Shroff is also Chancellor of UPL University of Sustainable Technology.

Mrs. Shroff has now spent more than five decades in India and has a working knowledge in Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi, and Kutchi languages.