Managing director D. S. Gupta Business units S. Nagaraju Venkat Ramana P Ashok Belani Keshav Tamhankar Rajiv Bakshi Franck Euvrard Manoj Kolhatkar Hans Jorgen Kjarsgard Milind Dalal Krishna Prasad Yogesh Dhawan Sunil Chaudhary Shashank S Thakar Arun Devaraj Anshuman Dev Prashanth Nayak D Ravichandran Vijay Bijlani Ravi Chidambar K Kumar Corporate functions >>

S. Nagaraju
CEO, ASAL

Education: BE (Mechanical), MTech, DSQC and OR, PGDBM, DBF.

S Nagaraju joined TACO in September 2006. He has over 21 years of experience. Before joining TACO, Mr. Nagaraju worked with Grindwell Norton Ltd (as Business Head, Thin Wheels and CPD), FAL Industries Ltd (formerly FACIT Asia Ltd as Assistant Manager) and Sundaram Clayton Ltd (as Senior Executive, TQM and BP).

Venkat Ramana P
CEO, Knorr Bremse Systems for Commercial Vehicles

Education: BE (Mechanical) from Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur

Venkat Ramana P joined Knorr Bremse Systems on November 16, 2006. He has over 24 years of experience. Before joining TACO he worked with Elgi Equipments Limited, Widia India Limited and Ruston & Hornsby Limited.

Ashok Belani
Cheif Executive Officer, Tata Johnson Controls

Education: BE (Mechanical) from Regional Engineering College, Jaipur

Ashok Belani joined TACO in 1998. He has 22 years of experience in marketing, sales and general management. Before joining TACO, Mr. Belani established the Indian operations of Hytork Controls of UK and has worked with Keystone Valves Inc, Larsen & Toubro and Greaves Cotton & Co.

Keshav Tamhankar
CEO, TACO Domestic Engineering Business Unit

Education: BE (mechanical engineering) from Walchand College of Engineering, Sangli and MTech from IIT, Bombay.

Keshav Tamhankar joined the TACO Engineering business unit in 2000. He has 20 years of experience in automotive product design, research and development, CAD / CAE and offshore engineering service business. Before joining TACO, Mr. Tamhankar worked with the Ford Motor Company, Detroit (Michigan), Boeing (Seattle), Tata Motors Engineering Research Center, Pune, Bajaj Auto and Bajaj Tempo.

Rajiv Bakshi
President, TACO Interiors and Plastics

Education: BE (mechanical) from Ranchi University and MBA from XLRI, Jamshedpur.

Franck Euvrard
CEO, TACO FAURECIA Design Centre

Education: Degree in plastic engineering company management.

Franck Euvrard joined TACO FAURECIA Design Center in June 2006. He has over 13 years of work experience. Before joining TACO FAURECIA Design Center, Mr. Franck Euvrard worked with Dow Automotive, SAS.

Manoj Kolhatkar
CEO, TACO Interiors and Plastics Division (Domestic)

Education: B.E.(Mechanical), DBM.

Manoj Kolhatkar joined TACO Interiors and Plastics Division in July 2006. Before joining TACO, Mr. Kolhatkar worked with Tata Motors. He brings with him a wealth of 17 years of work experience.

Hans Jorgen Kjarsgard
Managing Director, TACO Kunststofftechnik GmbH

Education: BA in Mechanical Engineering

Hans Kjarsgard joined TACO Kunststofftechnik GmbH on September 17, 2007. He has over 28 years of experience. Prior to joining TACO, he worked withCompAir GmbH, Simmern, Germany. Comp Air High Wycombe, UK; Koki Technik, Konstanz, Germany; Magna Seating Systems, Lohr am Main, Germany and Tenneco Automotive, Brussels, Belgium.

Milind Dalal
CEO, Tata AutoComp Mobility Telematics

Education: BE (Electronics and Telecommunications); PG Diploma in Management, IIM Calcutta.

Milind Dalal joined Tata AutoComp Mobility Telematics in May 2008. He has 16 years of experience. Before joining Tata AutoComp Mobility Telematics, Mr. Dalal worked for Bharti Airtel as Head (Value Added Services), M&G circle. He has also worked with Bharat Electronics, Philips India, Polaroid and Allianz Bajaj Life Insurance.

Krishna Prasad
CEO, TACO Sasken Automotive Electronics Pvt. Ltd.

Education: BE (Mechanical), MTech (Software), PhD in Technology Management from Indian Institute of Science (IISc).

Krishna Prasad has around 17 years of experience in the automotive and aerospace domains in the areas of systems engineering, architecture, and technology strategy. Before joining TACO, Mr Prasad worked with DaimlerChrysler Research & Technology and Aeronautical Development Agency.

Yogesh Dhawan
CEO, TATA AutoComp GY Batteries Private Limited

Education: BE Marine Engineering.

Yogesh Dhavan joined TGY in May 2006. He has more than 27 years of work experience. Before joining TACO, Mr. Dhawan worked with ESSAR Oil Ltd, BOC India Ltd, Denholm Ship Management and Castrol India Ltd.

Sunil Chaudhary
CEO, Tata Ficosa

Shashank S Thakar
CEO, Tata Visteon Autoparts Pvt Limited

Education: BE (Mechanical), DMS, Bombay University; management education programme (MEP), IIM Ahmedabad

Shashank S. Thakkar joined Tata Visteon on
1 December 2007. He has 28 years of rich experience in auto component industries. His varied experience includes working in the areas of tool design, manufacturing, operations and projects. He has also managed setting up of greenfield projects. Mr Thakkar started his career with Tata Motors (TELCO - Pune) in 1979 as a graduate engineer trainee. Before joining Tata Visteon Autoparts, he was working as Vice President with Gabriel India Ltd.

Arun Devaraj
Chief Engineer, TACO Visteon Engineering Centre Private Limited

Education: BE, Electrical andElectronics; CEG, Anna University, India; PGDBA, Loyola Institute of Business Administration, India

Arun Devaraj joined Visteon India in 1999 and has more than 14 years of experience in electronics product development. He has held leadership positions in Visteon Technical Centre India. His expertise includes electronic application in product areas of driver information, audio and climate control. Before joining Visteon, Mr Devraj worked with Larsen & Toubro-McNeil, India, in the design and development of electronics for its Plastics machinery division.

Anshuman Dev
CEO, ACSI

Education: BE (Mechanical)

Anshuman Dev joined TACO in 2007. Prior to taking over ACSI as CEO, Mr. Dev was overseeing the operations of ASAL. He has 22 years of experience and has worked with Satyam Autocomponents, Krishna Fabrications, Minda Huf, Titan Group, Allied Nippon & JMA Industries.

Prashanth Nayak
CEO, Tata Yazaki

Education: BE (Electronics and Communication) from KREC, Surathkal and MBA from IIM, Calcutta.

Prashanth Nayak joined TACO in June 1996. He has been part of the initial management team of TACO. He has twelve years of experience in planning, projects, joint venture negotiations and human resources. Before joining TACO, Mr. Nayak worked with Wipro Systems for one year.

D Ravichandran
CEO, Technical Stampings Automotive Ltd

Education: D Ravichandran joined TACO on January 20, 2007. He is a graduate
Mechanical Engineer and a post graduate in Business Administration. Prior to joining TACO, Mr Ravichandran worked with Ennore Foundries Limited, Pt. Texmaco Group, Ashok Leyland Ltd and Lucas India Service.

He has 32 years of diversified experience in planning, development of vendors, implementation of ERP and is a global sourcing expert with exceptional analytical and strategic planning skills, and strong technical ability especially on castings, machining, body parts and plastic parts development.

Vijay Bijlani
CEO, TACO Tooling

Education: BE (Mechanical) from College of Engineering, Pune and MMS from Symbiosis Institute of Management, Pune.

Vijay Bijlani joined Technical Stampings Automotive Limited, Chennai in June 2006. He has over 27 years of experience in the areas of production, operations, quality, business development and setting up of plant in respective fields. Before joining TACO, Mr. Bijlani was Senior General Manager - Operations for Moser Baer India Limited. He has also worked with Onlyplastics.com Pvt Limited and Philips India Limited.

Ravi Chidambar
CEO, Tata Toyo Radiator

Education: BE (Mech) from Pune University, M Tech from IIT Mumbai.

Ravi Chidambar joined the TACO group in 1997 and was associated with Tata Toyo Radiators. He has over 22 years of experience in the area of heat exchangers. Before joining Tata AutoComp, Mr Chidambar was working with Thermax where he was associated with the heat exchange business.

K. Kumar
CEO, TC Springs

Education: BTech (Production Technology) from Madras Institute of Technology, Anna University and P G Diploma (Statistical Quality Control & Operations Research) from Indian Statistical Institute.

K. Kumar joined TC Springs on 11 October 2006. He has over 22 years of experience. Before joining TACO, he worked with Luk India Pvt Ltd, Pricol, Purolator India, Rane Trw Steering Systems, MICO- BOSCH and Lucas TVS Chennai.