Bimal Mehta is the Executive Director of Vakil & Sons Pvt. Ltd (Vakils), a premier printing and publishing firm based in Mumbai.  Over the last 22 years he has been involved in the restructuring of Vakils from a traditional print company to a high-tech IT enabled Services Company. At Vakils, he was instrumental in bringing NYSE listed Bowne & Co Inc. (recently acquired by RR Donnelly), the world’s largest financial printing company to India.

Bimal is also the Managing Director of Vakils Premedia, a subsidiary of Vakils. With offices in India and US, Vakils Premedia works with some of the leading companies to offer premedia and cross media services around the world. His other directorships include Vakils, Feffer & Simons Pvt Ltd (publishing company) JD Jones (Bombay) Pvt Ltd (ship deck flooring) and JVX Media Services (XBRL services).

Prior to joining Vakils, Bimal worked at CRISIL Ltd (India’s first credit rating agency) as a research associate, and was part of the founding team to set up the information services business at CRISIL.

Bimal is an MBA from Boston University Graduate School of Management.

Bimal is a member of the Managing Council of Somaiya Vidyavihar (an educational institution based in Mumbai) and also serves as a member of the Somaiya Vidyavihar Academic Council.  An active Rotarian, Bimal is on the Board of Directors of the Rotary Club of Bombay.

He was the Vice President of the American Alumni Association and The Bombay Master Printers Association and Honorary secretary of the Indo American Society.