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Mr Ravindra Pisharody is the Executive
Director (Commercial Vehicles) since 2012
having joined Tata Motors as Vice President
Commercial Vehicles (Sales & Marketing), in
2007. He is also on the board of various Tata
Motors Group Companies. Before joining
Tata Motors, he worked with Castrol Ltd.,
a subsidiary of BP, and with Philips India, a
subsidiary of the Dutch company in various
roles. Mr Pisharody is an alumnus of IIT,
Kharagpur and IIM, Kolkata.
Mr Pisharody has submitted his resignation
to the Board of Directors of the Company on
June 5, 2017.
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Mr Ravindra Pisharody
Executive Director (Commercial Vehicles)
Mr Satish Borwankar started his career with
Tata Motors in 1974, as a Graduate Engineer
Trainee and is the Executive Director since,
2012. On May 31, 2017, he was re-appointed
as Executive Director and designated as
Chief Operating Officer. He has worked in
various executive positions, for overseeing
and implementing product development,
manufacturing operations and quality
control initiatives of the Commercial Vehicles
Business Unit. He has played a significant
role in setting up Greenfield projects of the
Company. Mr Borwankar is a Mechanical
Engineer from IIT, Kanpur.
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Mr Satish Borwankar
Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer
Mr Guenter Butschek is the Chief Executive
Officer & Managing Director of the Company.
Mr Butschek’s last assignment was with Airbus
Group where he served as Chief Operating
Officer and Member of the Group Executive
Committee. Prior to Airbus, Mr Butschek
worked at Daimler AG, where he gained more
than 25 years of experience in international
automotive management, holding functions
like production, industrialisation and
procurement. He has a rich global experience
of growing organisations and developing
new markets. Mr Butschek is a graduate in
Business Administration and Economics with
a diploma from the University of Cooperative
Education Stuttgart, Germany.
He was appointed as Chief Executive Officer
and Managing Director of the Company w.e.f.
February 15, 2016.
Mr Guenter Butschek
CEO and Managing Director
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