ANAROCK appoints Pankaj Renjhen as COO & Jt. MD - ANAROCK Retail

The ANAROCK Group has appointed retail real estate veteran Pankaj Renjhen as COO & Joint Managing Director - ANAROCK Retail. With immediate effect, Renjhen shares the responsibility of overseeing the Firm’s Indian retail operations with Anuj Kejriwal, MD & CEO - ANAROCK Retail

Pankaj Renjhen brings to the table over 22 years of experience in advising leading corporates, retail and office occupiers, investors and developers across India on their real estate strategies. He holds PGDBM with specialization in Marketing and Finance from IMT, Ghaziabad and B.Com (Hons) from Sri Venkateswara College, Delhi University. 

"It is exciting to join many of my previous senior colleagues as we partner again to drive growth of ANAROCK's dynamic retail vertical," says Pankaj Renjhen. "My excellent long-standing equation with the Group's leadership and teams is a head-start.  I look forward to working with them again. The tasks before us include further building on ANAROCK's capabilities to align with retail sector's rapid journey from physical to digital and now phygital retailing."

Anuj Puri, Chairman of ANAROCK Group, concurs. "Pankaj Renjhen joins us at a time when ANAROCK is actively harnessing the unique opportunities to strengthen our retail business in the post-pandemic market," he says. "He will be instrumental in expanding our business scope and furthering our relationships with major Indian and international retailers as well as real estate owners, including Institutional investors. His appointment is in line with our established strategy of strengthening our leadership to remain agile, responsive, future-fit and adapt to the fast-changing retail market."

 Before joining ANAROCK, Pankaj Renjhen was COO at Virtuous Retail, where he was responsible for operations, leasing, finance & accounts, marketing, human resources, legal and Information Technology functions for the firm. Prior to that, he served as Managing Director - Retail at International property consultants JLL, where he also served on the Asia Pacific Board of Retail.