Jay Mehta

This article is about the businessman. For the Indian actor, see Jay Mehta (actor). For the medical researcher, see Jawahar L. Mehta.

Jay Mehta (born 18 January 1961) is an Indian businessman. He is the son of Mahendra Mehta and Sunayana Mehta and grandson of Nanji Kalidas Mehta, who own the Mehta Group which is spread over Africa, India, Canada and United States. He is the cousin of late Kenyan race car driver, Shekhar Mehta. He is married to actress Juhi Chawla.

Jay Mehta
Mehta in 2010
Born	(1961-01-18) 18 January 1961 (age 64) India
Alma mater	Columbia University (BS)[1] International Institute for Management Development (MBA)
Occupation	Businessman
Organization(s)	Indian operations (Mehta Group) Saurashtra Cement Ltd. and Gujarat Sidhee Cement Ltd. ADF Foods Ltd.
Spouses	Sujata Birla ​ (died 1990)​ Juhi Chawla ​ (m. 1995)​
Children	2[2]
Relatives	Nanji Kalidas Mehta (grandfather) Shekhar Mehta (cousin)

Education

In 1983, Mehta received his BS in engineering from the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science at Columbia University in New York City. In 1991 he earned an MBA from the International Institute for Management Development in Lausanne, Switzerland.^[3]

Business interest

Mehta owns the Mehta Group, a multinational company. Mehta owns two companies in India:

• Saurashtra Cement Ltd (Ranavav near Porbandar, Gujarat)
• Gujarat Sidhee Cement Ltd (Veraval Gujarat India)

Along with actor Shahrukh Khan, he is a co-owner of the Indian Premier League team Kolkata Knight Riders.^[4]

Personal life

Jay Mehta is the husband of former Miss India and Bollywood actress Juhi Chawla.^[5] He was earlier married to Sujata Birla, sister of Yash Birla who died in the Flight 605 plane crash in 1990. Mehta has two children with wife Juhi Chawla, a daughter, Jahnavi Mehta (born 2001) and a son, Arjun Mehta (born 2003).^[6][7][8]