President and Founder of Balcorp Limted
Mr. Baljit Singh Chadha, is President and founder of Balcorp Limited, an international trade and marketing firm. He is also a well known philanthropist and a leader of the Sikh community in Canada.
Mr. Chadha immigrated to Canada in 1973 from India to study Business Administration. He founded Balcorp in 1976, building it into a $50 million concern with offices in Montreal, New Delhi and Mumbai. His international trading company has varied interests that include agricultural food products, processed foods, forestry products, and minerals. In 2003, Mr. Chadha was appointed by Prime Minister Jean Chrétien to the Security Intelligence Review Committee as well as to the Queen’s Privy Council for Canada.
Mr. Chadha graduated from Bombay University with a Bachelor of Science degree. He later obtained a MBA from Concordia University. He is one of the Directors of the Canada India Business Council (C-IBC), and has sat on the Board of Governors of Concordia University since 2002.