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Naveen Raju is General Counsel and Executive Vice President at Mahindra & Mahindra Limited. He is based in Mumbai, India and is responsible for the legal affairs of the Mahindra group, which is a global federation of Companies having diverse business interests in over twenty key industries. Naveen has two decades of experience in working with leading Indian private sector Companies and started his career in 1996 as in-house counsel with Associated Cement Companies, before moving to Crompton Greaves. In the year 2000, he joined as Head of Legal for the oil and gas business at Reliance Industries, which is India’s largest private sector Company. He subsequently moved to Mahindra as its General Counsel and Senior Vice President in 2014. Since moving to Mahindra, Naveen has focussed his attention on restructuring the legal organization and overhauling and automating its systems and processes. He obtained his graduate degree in law from the National Law School, Bangalore.