Dilip Dandekar

Dilip Dandekar is the chairman and managing director of Kokuyo Camlin Ltd., taking office from June 1, 2002. He joined Camlin Ltd. as a management trainee who were the founders of the company (initially known as Dandekar and Co.).

He currently serves as the President of Indian Merchants' Chambers. and they had 3 children together; before her death in 1993.

He later remarried Smita Dandekar (née Soman) in 1998. She has one daughter from her previous marriage. and became executive director of the company in 1979. Dandekar served as a Vice President of Indian Merchants' Chambers and has been its Director since June 2006. Under him, in May 2011, Kokuyo S&T Company Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Japan's Kokuyo Company Ltd acquired a controlling stake in Camlin Ltd from the Dandekar family. The name of the company was changed to Kokuyo Camlin Ltd.

Dilip Dandekar also serves as director to companies Indo Schottle Auto Parts Pvt. Ltd., Nilmac Packaging Industries Ltd. and Camlin International Ltd. and on the governing board of Bombay First and the ICFAI Business School.

He is also on the Board of Datamatics Global Services as an Independent Director.