Asian Power Couples
Ruby & Graham McGregor-Smith
Ruby McGregor-Smith CBE is the CEO of MITIE Group PLC, a strategic outsourcing company
headquartered in Bristol, UK. She was born in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, but moved to the UK
aged two. She graduated from Kingston University in 1985 with a degree in economics and
trained for six years as an accountant at BDO Stoy Hayward where she also met her husband.
She joined MITIE as Group Financial Director in 2002 and was appointed CEO in 2007. Ruby
chairs the Women’s Business Council. She was awarded a CBE in 2012 for services to business
and promoting diversity.
Ruby & Graham McGregor-Smith
Graham McGregor-Smith is a Chartered Accountant with a Bachelors degree in Accounting &
Finance from The University of Manchester. After completing his training at BDO Stoy Hayward
he held financial roles at Dow Jones Telerate, Courage Limited, Scottish Courage and Scottish
and Newcastle before joining InvestCorp as a Principal in European Private Equity where he
worked until 2006. He became Vice-Chairman at Windsor & Eton Opera and Chairman at Park
Opera in 2011.
Ramona Mehta & Sanjeev Patel
Ramona Mehta is a Partner at Mischon de Reya Solicitors and is Head of the Reputation
Protection Group at the firm. She advises on complex, often multi-jurisdictional commercial
and reputational disputes. She gained an LLB in Law from University College of London and
articled at Mishcon de Reya. She is married to Sanjeev Patel
Ramona Mehta & Sanjeev Patel
Sanjeev C Patel is Managing Director of CNG Business Services, part of The CNG Family of
Companies, a privately owned business founded in 1971 with retail stores & property interests
around the UK and abroad. Sanjeev was a banker with Citigroup in London before he moved to
Los Angeles where he studied for his MBA at the Anderson School at UCLA.
Aditya & Megha Mittal
Aditya Mittal is a Chief Financial Office at the world’s largest steel firm ArcelorMittal, which is
controlled by his father Lakshmi Mittal. Aditya has a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from the
Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. He worked for a short time in
the mergers and acquisitions department at investment bank Credit Suisse First Boston before
joining the family business in 1997. Aditya Mittal is married to Megha Mittal.
Aditya & Megha Mittal
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Megha Mittal, born in Kolkata, India, is the Chairman and Managing Director of the German
fashion luxury brand Escada. She graduated from the Wharton School of Business in 1997 with
a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics. She subsequently joined the investment bank Goldman
Sachs as an analyst in the research department. In 2003 she obtained a postgraduate degree
in Architectural Interior Design at the Inchbald School of Design in London. In November 2009,
she acquired Escada, which had filed for bankruptcy in August of that year.