Building a smarter journey

Mr. Natarajan Chandrasekaran

Non-Executive Director and Chairman

Mr. Natarajan Chandrasekaran is the Chairman of the Board of Tata Sons, the holding company of more than 100 Tata operating companies with a total annual revenue of over $100 billion. He joined the Tata Sons Board in 2016 and became Chairman in 2017. Mr. Chandrasekaran chairs the Boards of several group operating companies, including Tata Steel, Tata Motors, Tata Power, Indian Hotels and TCS, where he was the Chief Executive from 2009-17.

Mr. Chandrasekaran has also served as the Chairman of NASSCOM, the apex trade body for IT services firms in India, in 2012-13. In 2016, he was appointed as a Director on the Board of the Reserve Bank of India. A recipient of several awards, he has won the ‘Business Leader Award’ at The Economic Times Awards for Corporate Excellence in 2016 and the ‘Best CEO’ at the 2015 All-Asia Executive Team rankings for five consecutive years.

Mr. O.P. Bhatt

Non-Executive, Independent Director

Mr. O.P. Bhatt, a Science graduate, and a post-graduate in English Literature, served as the Chairman of the State Bank Group from July 2006 to March 2011. During his tenure, he led India’s largest commercial bank, the State Bank of India, along with five associate banks in India, five overseas banks, and several other subsidiaries. Under his leadership, SBI rose on the global list rankings of Fortune 500. He also served as the Chairman of Indian Banks’ Association, the apex body of Indian banks, and represented India as a government nominee on the India-US CEO Forum, Indo-French CEO Forum and Indo-Russia CEO Forum, forging links with business leaders worldwide.

Mr. Bhatt has been an Independent Director of the Company since 9 May 2017 and serves as an Independent Director on the Boards of several companies. He is an accomplished business leader with a diverse skill set and a wealth of experience in the banking and financial sectors.

Ms. Hanne Birgitte Sorensen

Non-Executive, Independent Director

Ms. Hanne Birgitte Sorensen is a Danish national with an M.Sc. in Economics and Management from the University of Aarhus. From 1994 to 2016, she worked in various roles within the A.P. Moller-Maersk A/S Group, a conglomerate of eight main companies specialising in energy and transportation. She served as CEO of Damco, a supply chain management company in the Hague specialising in retail, lifestyle, FMCG, technology and chemicals, from 2014 to 2016. She was appointed CEO of Maersk Tankers, the world’s largest product tanker company based in Copenhagen, between 2012-13. She also served as the Senior VP and Chief Commercial Officer of Maersk Line, the world’s largest container shipping company in Copenhagen from 2008 to 2012.

Currently, she serves on the Board of Directors and Committees of various international companies. Ms. Sorensen has been an Independent Director of Tata Motors since 3 January 2018.

Ms. Vedika Bhandarkar

Non-Executive, Independent Director

Ms. Vedika Bhandarkar is an experienced financial expert with over 25 years of experience in building teams and businesses with Indian and international financial institutions. She is presently the President and Chief Operating Officer of Water.org., a non-profit organisation. Prior to this, Ms. Bhandarkar held various leadership positions at Credit Suisse Securities and J.P. Morgan in India, including Vice Chairman and Managing Director at Credit Suisse Securities (India) Private Limited, and Managing Director and Head of Investment Banking at J.P. Morgan in India. She began her career with ICICI Bank in 1989, where she worked at ISec, a joint venture between ICICI and J.P. Morgan.

Ms. Bhandarkar is a board member of the Jai Vakeel Foundation. She holds an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, and a B.Sc. from the MS University. Ms. Bhandarkar has been an Independent Director of the company since 26 June 2019.

Mr. Mitsuhiko Yamashita

Non-Executive, Non-Independent Director

Mr. Mitsuhiko Yamashita is a Japanese national with over 40 years of experience in the automotive industry, having worked for leading Japanese companies. In 1979, he joined Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. as a Body Design Engineer and became a Member of the Board of Directors and Executive Vice President supervising R&D in 2005. He led the R&D function from 2005 to 2015 and was involved in the development of electric vehicles, autonomous drive and various other technologies to support Nissan’s goal of achieving zero fatalities and zero emission. In 2016, he was appointed as Member of the Board and Executive Vice President for Mitsubishi Motors Corporation and in 2019, he was appointed as the Technical Advisor to the Chairman of Mitsubishi Motors Corporation.

He has served on the Advisory Panel of Science and Technology for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and was the President of the Society of Automotive Engineers of Japan, Inc from 2012-2014. Mr. Yamashita has been appointed as Non-Executive, Non-Independent Director, with effect from 27 September 2020, for a tenure of five years.

Mr. Kosaraju Veerayya Chowdary

Non-Executive, Independent Director

Mr. K.V. Chowdary has a post-graduate degree in Mathematics from the Indian Institute of Technology Chennai and graduated from Loyola College, Chennai. He began his career in 1976 as a probationary officer in Andhra Bank before joining the Indian Revenue Service in 1978. Later, he held several executive positions before retiring as Chairman of Central Board of Direct Taxes. After his superannuation, he was appointed as an Advisor to the Department of Revenue, Ministry of Finance. From June 2015 to June 2019, he served as the Central Vigilance Commissioner and was elected as a member of the Executive Committee of the International Association of Anti-Corruption Agencies. He is also a member of the Advisory Board of Comptroller and Auditor General of India.

Mr. Chowdary holds directorships in CCL Products (India) Limited, Divi’s Laboratories Limited and Reliance Industries Limited. He has been appointed as an Independent Director for a tenure of five years, effective from 27 October 2020.

Mr. Al-Noor Ramji

Non-Executive, Independent Director

Mr. Al-Noor Ramji is an experienced Chief Information Officer (CIO), Board Advisor, and entrepreneur. He holds a B.Sc. in Electronics from the University of London, is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and has been a multi-year recipient of the CIO 100 Award, CIO Insight IT Leader of the Year 2009 and the British Computer Society CIO of the Year. He has more than 30 years of experience driving digital strategy and transformation for global enterprises. Prior to joining Prudential plc in 2016, he was the Chief Strategy Officer of Calypso Technology, Inc. He served in various executive roles at British Telecom, more recently as Chief Executive Officer for BT Innovate and Design and CIO of BT Group plc. He also served as CIO at UBS and Global Head of Operations at Credit Suisse First Boston. Mr. Ramji was also the founder and Group CEO of WebTek Software, one of the most successful software houses in India.

He was appointed as an Additional and Independent Director with effect from 1 May 2022.

Mrs. Usha Sangwan

Non-Executive, Independent Director

Mrs. Usha Sangwan was the first woman Managing Director of the Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) of India from 2013 to 2018. She has a post-graduate degree in Economics, a PG diploma in Human Resource Management and a Licentiate from the Insurance Institute of India. She served on the Boards of several national and international companies, including Axis Bank, Bombay Stock Exchange, Grasim Industries, Ambuja Cements and Ultratech Cement among others. Currently, Mrs. Sangwan holds independent directorships at Torrent Power, Trident Ltd, SBI Life, Axis Pension Fund and Tata Technologies Ltd. She is also a member of the Financial Services Institutions Bureau of the Government of India.

Mrs. Sangwan was featured in Forbes magazine’s list of top 50 businesswomen in Asia and received the ‘Most Powerful Businesswoman Award’ from Business Today and Business World. She is a member of Bombay Chamber of Commerce & Industry's Diversity and Inclusion Committee . She was a jury member for selecting Women Transforming India by Niti Ayog, the top 100 Women in Finance by AIWMI and Business World’s Best CFOs in 2021.

Mr. Guenter Butschek

Non-Executive Independent Director.

Mr Guenter Butschek is a globally experienced (South Africa, China, India, South Korea, Europe) Chief Executive leading holistic industrial strategies and operational excellence in aerospace and automotive industry. He is recognized as a thought leader and for running turnaround initiatives including large-scale business transformations, optimizing manufacturing footprints, aligning end-to-end supply chain operations, improving global operating systems, leading joint ventures and creating partnerships with social partners, private and public authorities as well as fostering organizational culture of teamwork, agility and accountability.

Since April 2022, Mr Butschek is the Chief Executive Officer (‘CEO’) of Cubonic GmbH, a pioneering provider of sustainable, highly customizable electric LCV solutions offering automated to autonomous driving, seamless connectivity to customers’ ecosystems, peace-of-mind reliability and improved productivity and profitability. He is also a Non-Executive Director of Cheesecake Energy Limited, UK with effect from February 1, 2023.

Preceding that he was the CEO & MD of Tata Motors Limited (‘TML’) from February 15, 2016 to June 30, 2021, also serving on several TML affiliated company Boards as the Chairman or a Non-Executive Director. He possess prolific experience pertaining to automotive, e-mobility and aerospace industry. He has specialized knowledge in devising holistic strategies focusing on operational excellence, redesigning of product portfolios, execution of comprehensive business transformation processes, including sustainable business turnaround initiatives.

Prior to this, he was engaged with Airbus, in the capacity of Global Chief Operating Officer, Chief Executive Officer Airbus Germany, member of the Management Board - Airbus Group and on various Supervisory Board Mandates. He has also performed in various management functions and in several global constituencies within the Daimler Group.

Mr. Girish Wagh

Executive Director

Mr. Girish Wagh joined Tata Motors in 1992 as a Graduate Engineer Trainee after completing his Engineering degree from Pune University, and later obtained a post-graduate degree in Manufacturing Management from the S.P. Jain Institute of Management and Research. Over the years, he has held various senior positions with increasing responsibilities across both the Passenger Vehicle and Commercial Vehicle business units. He has led cross-functional teams and successfully delivered game-changing projects such as the Tata ACE mini truck and new generation cars like Nano, Bolt, Zest, Tiago, Hexa and Tigor. He was recognised with awards such as the ‘Rising Star’ by the Automotive News Europe in 2011 and ‘CV Man of the Year’ at the Apollo CV Awards 2020.

In July 2017, Mr. Wagh was appointed President and Head of Commercial Vehicle Business Unit–Tata Motors and a member of the Executive Committee. He was appointed as an Executive Director of the company with effect from 1 July 2021.

Mr Bharat Puri

Non-Executive Independent Director

Mr. Bharat Puri is the Managing Director of Pidilite Industries Limited since April 2015, having first joined the Board of Pidilite Industries Limited as an Independent Director in 2008. With a proven track record as a successful global business leader, he has effectively built, motivated, and directed diverse teams across various regions in both developed and developing markets. He is a graduate in Commerce from Punjab University and holds post-graduate diploma in Management (MBA) from IIM, Ahmedabad.

Mr. Puri’s professional journey began at Asian Paints in 1982, where he started as a Sales & Marketing executive and eventually rose to the position of Head of Sales & Marketing. In 1998, he transitioned to Cadbury India, serving as Director of Sales & Marketing before being appointed as Managing Director South Asia in 2002, after which he moved to Singapore in 2006 where he was responsible for Strategy, Marketing and Sales for the Asia Pacific region. Throughout his career, he has held several senior leadership positions in Sales, Marketing, and General Management at both regional and global levels. His exceptional performance culminated in his appointment as the Global President of Chocolates, Gum, and Candy for Mondelez International, Zurich with worldwide responsibilities for the growth of these categories.