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Tata Chemicals announces appointment
of Managing Director designate and Executive Directors
Mumbai, November 28, 2008
Tata Chemicals (TCL) at the meeting of the board of the company
held on November 26, 2008, appointed R Mukundan, Kapil Mehan
and PK Ghose as executive directors of the company.
R Mukundan will be the Managing Director designate to take
over as Managing Director of the company when the current
Managing Director, Homi Khusrokhan retires in December 2008,
upon reaching the age of superannuation.
The company also appointed EA Kshirshagar as additional director.
Profiles:
R Mukundan joined the Tata Administrative Service in
1990. He is an MBA from FMS, Delhi University and BE-Electrical
Engineering from IIT, Roorkee. He attended the Advanced Management
Programme at Harvard Business School in 2008. He joined Tata
Chemicals in 2001 and has led various functions like strategy
and business development, corporate quality and business excellence,
corporate planning and manufacturing. As Executive Vice President
since 2007, he presently heads the global chemicals business
and the consumer products business. Prior to joining Tata
Chemicals he worked in the Group's automotive and hospitality
businesses.
Kapil Mehan joined Tata Chemicals in 1996. After graduating
in veterinary sciences from Punjab Agricultural University,
Ludhiana, Mr Mehan obtained a postgraduate diploma in management
from the IIM, Ahmedabad in 1981. He attended the Advanced
Management Programme at Harvard Business School in 2008. He
was appointed Executive Vice President, crop nutrition and
agri business of Tata Chemicals in 2007. Before joining Tata
Chemicals in 1996, he worked with Rallis India for over 14
years. During his 12 years with Tata Chemicals he has headed
sales and marketing function for the company for all its product
segments like industrial chemicals, fertilizers, cement, and
FMCG products (Tata Salt).
PK Ghose joined Tata Chemicals in 2002 as the CFO.
He is an honours graduate in commerce and a member of the
Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India, the Institute
of Company Secretaries of India and is an alumnus of the Advanced
International General Management Programme of CEDEP, France.
He was elevated as Executive Vice President and CFO in 2007.
Prior to joining Tata Chemicals, he was with Tata Steel and
worked with subsidiaries of the Tata Steel Group in several
senior positions, including General Manager (accounts), Chief
Financial Controller (corporate) and chief of strategic finance.
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