Ashwin Dani, 81, who transformed Asian Paints with a sustained focus on the customer and continuous innovation in the business, is no more. Despite being part of the promoter family, Dani was strategising the growth of the company by holding various positions in the company, which was established by his father.Asian Paints was incorporated in 1942 by Dani’s father and three other individuals. Dani was born on September 26, 1944, in Mumbai. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from Mumbai University in 1966, and enrolled at...