rajan luthra

Mr Rajan Luthra heads Special Projects in the Chairman’s Office at Reliance Industries Ltd. (RIL), a Fortune 100 company, and India’s largest private sector corporation. Being engaged in the start-up and growth phases of Reliance’s multiple hydrocarbon and consumer businesses for over two decades, he has unique experience in envisioning, planning, and executing large-scale technology, innovation, and digital transformation initiatives. As part of the founding team at Reliance Retail, he helped design the business strategy, technology architecture, and helmed the loss prevention function. At Jio, he delivered a unified operations and intelligence centre built on a defining Industry 4.0 platform as well as initiated the smart cities foray. Across the RIL group, he has led the adoption of advanced IoT solutions, benchmarking of risk management protocols and launch of REFERS – a unique employee engagement and exigency support initiative. He leads one of the core Platform teams delivering digital-physical services.

Rajan is deeply engaged with the global innovation and start-up ecosystems. He represents RIL on the Investment Committee of Labs/02, an Israel Innovation Authority sponsored incubator for frontier-technologies in Jerusalem. At GenNext Ventures (RIL) accelerator, he helped drive strategic investment decisions as jury member and mentor while supporting engagements with counterparts in the US, Canada, & UK. His contribution as Director on the board of Videonetics Technologies, a portfolio company, in it becoming India’s leading video computing platform, was acknowledged by the founder. Having a keen interest in drones since 2008 when he spear-headed Reliance Aerospace Technologies, he was instrumental in RIL’s investment in Asteria Aerospace, a leading Indian UAV start-up.

Rajan holds an engineering degree and an executive MBA in national security & counter terrorism. He has led multiple public policy programs and is a member of FICCI’s National Executive Council. He currently chairs the national FICCI Committee on Drones driving industry-academia collaboration aligned with the Government’s vision for making India a drone manufacturing hub. As co-chair of FICCI Homeland Security committee for 3 years, he steered smart border management, counter-drone, predictive-policing, and cyber-crime management initiatives. He was instrumental in setting up India’s first open-source intelligence lab for a leading law-enforcement agency as a PPP initiative. He was part of India’s first national cyber security delegation visiting Hague Security Delta, Netherlands and Malvern Cyber Security Cluster, UK.

As a convenor of Bureau of Indian Standards’ electronic security systems committee panel, Rajan represents India on the IEC global working group on access control systems. He has served on the Board of Trustees at Observer Research Foundation – a leading global policy think-tank. He is a member of the advisory council of Fire and Security Association of India, having served as its National President previously.