The former Governor of Bihar, Tripura & West Bengal, and recipient of the prestigious Padmashree Award, Dr. D. Y. Patil is a well-known educationist and philanthropist. He firmly believed that youth in India needed a greater platform that offered multiple opportunities to educate themselves across geographies.
He envisioned spreading education across the length and breadth of India and started the journey with the first engineering college called Ramrao Adik Institute of Technology (RAIT) in Navi Mumbai in the year 1983. There has been no turning back since with the DY Patil Group taking giant leaps in the fields of education, healthcare & sports under his mentorship.
Dr. Vijay Patil is an Indian Educationist, Philanthropist, and Sportsman. He has for long been working on crafting an extraordinary transformation of the Indian education ecosystem as he envisions India to be a global destination for education in the years to come. From a very young age, he knew the importance of education and sports in his life. With his vision for the future of Indian youth, he founded several educational institutes in India and forever changed the standard of sports training.
A Computer engineer from the University of Mumbai, with a degree in Management from the Bond University, Australia, Dr. Vijay D. Patil is a beacon in the field of education, sports, and health care in young India. Applauded and recognized in all these three fields around India, his quest for delivering the best in each domain continues to prevail. He strongly believes in developing and delivering state-of-the-art projects that will act as catalysts for the growth of the nation and sustain for years, benefiting young India.
The guiding force that spearheads growth at the DY Patil Group, Dr. Shivani Patil’s unmatchable passion towards the group’s initiatives and larger goals has helped scale new heights. The driving force behind the flourishing culture, Mrs. Patil has ensured that each member of the team at the DY Patil Group is aligned with and equipped to contribute to the larger vision making their experience with the group a fulfilling and thriving professional journey. She leads key parts of the group’s strategic trajectory making the vision focused on delivering a top-notch educational experience, a reality and helping build the DY Patil Group into an inspirational institution to be associated with.
Dr. Shivani Patil has firmly believed in empowering faculty, promoting student welfare, and creating a youth force that are the harbingers of growth for the nation in the coming years. The University has flourished under her nurturing guidance.