User:Sajjidmitha

Sajjid Mitha is single handedly responsible for revolutionizing the manner in which plastics and petrochemical intelligence is processed and presented. The plastics and petrochemical industry operates in a volatile milieu where trade decisions need to be taken in a real time environment. Recognizing the need of the industry for accurate information and error free price alerts and having the foresight to gauge the power of the world wide web as a powerful visual medium, Sajjid set up polymerupdate.com in 1999, India's first online real time news and price alert service. Over the past 13 years, the company has emerged as a preferred destination for global plastics players seeking plastics and petrochemicals intelligence.

Early Life

Sajjid was born on February 12, 1968 in Mumbai, India. He completed his early education from the Cathedral and John Connon School, Mumbai. Following the completion of his 'A' levels in Business Studies, Economics and English Literature from Mill Hill School, London, Sajjid graduated as an English major, with a first class, from the St Xaviers college following which he obtained a Diploma in Public Relations from the Xavier Institute of Communications, Bombay.

Career Sajjid started his career in 1992 by setting up an independent trading house called Far East Trading Company (FETCO). The company was an agent of one of the leading chaebols of South Korea, M/s Samsung Corporation and was actively involved in selling various polyolefin products including PP, PE, PVC, PS and ABS to some of the largest plastic processing companies in the Indian sub-continent. The turning point in his career came with the setting up of polymerupdate.com which has rapidly consolidated its position as a world renowned provider of real time news and price alerts in the plastics and petrochemicals vertical. Products widely covered include Crude oil, Naphtha, Aromatics, Olefins, Polyolefins, Commodity Polymers, Feedstocks and Petrochemical Intermediates. His company caters to clients across 55 countries. Sajjid was instrumental in launching the World's 1st Android Application & Blackberry Application for daily polymer news & prices.

Sajjid has also taken the initiative to start a conference division,PGPC. Another brainchild of Sajjid is PlasticsB2B, an online trading platform and a repository of ample business resources and information in the field of international trade for professionals in the plastics and petrochemicals industry. Sajjid also serves as a Director with Chhagan Mitha, an automobile engineering firm operating petroleum retail outlets in Mumbai city. He is a director of Azul Arc India, a multi media design and technology firm, with its head office in Georgia, Atlanta, USA. Sajjid was apointed as an Honorary Trade Advisor to the Ministry of Commerce, Royal Government of Thailand, in 2002, for promoting bi-lateral trade and enhancing the existing relationship between the two countries. Sajjid enjoys travelling. He is an avid photographer and has over the years built an impressive collection of his many adventures across the world. He also has a passion for documenting his travels in words. Through his descriptive yet simple writing style, Sajjid has won an impressive audience through his travel peaces which over the years have been carried in some leading magazines in the Indian subcontinent. He is also a member of the ethical comittee of the Shroff Eye Clinic in India.