Board of Directors

Mr Ratan N. Tata
Chairman Emeritus

Mr Tata was the Chairman of Tata Sons Private Limited from 1991 till his retirement in December 2012. He also chaired the Boards of major operating Tata companies and the Tata Trusts. Under his stewardship, various group restructuring initiatives were undertaken to leverage global opportunities for the Tata group, the salt-to-software conglomerate, growing revenues and profitability by over 40 times. He was on the Company’s Board for more than three decades from 1981 till his retirement, and was Chairman during the last 24 years. He is the Chairman of the Tata Trusts, which are among India’s oldest, non-sectarian philanthropic organisations that work in several areas of community development. He also chairs the Council of Management of Tata Institute of Fundamental Research and is a trustee of Cornell University and University of Southern California.

Mr Natarajan Chandrasekaran
Chairman & Non-Executive Director

Mr Chandrasekaran is the Chairman of the Board of Tata Sons Private Limited, the holding company of the Tata group. His appointment as Chairman followed a 30-year business career at Tata Consultancy Services, which he joined from university rising through the ranks to become the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Managing Director. He was appointed as a Director on the Board of the Reserve Bank of India in 2016 and on the International Advisory Council of Singapore’s Economic Development Board in 2018. He is also the Co-Chair of the India US-CEO Forum.

Mr Nasser Munjee
Non-Executive, Independent Director

Mr Munjee is on the Boards of various multinational companies and trusts. He is a Technical Advisor on the World Bank’s Public-Private Partnership Infrastructure and Advisory Fund, and the Chairman of Development Credit Bank (DCB). He has served with HDFC Bank for over 20 years, across various positions. He was the Managing Director of Infrastructure Development Finance Co. Ltd. (IDFC).

He holds graduate and post-graduate degrees from the London School of Economics.

Mr O P Bhatt
Non-Executive, Independent Director

Mr Bhatt is on the Boards of several companies, including Standard Chartered Bank, Tata Consultancy Services, Tata Steel and Hindustan Unilever. He was the Chairman of the State Bank Group. Besides chairing the Indian Banks' Association, he has served as the Indian diplomat on the India-US CEO Forum, Indo-French CEO Forum and Indo-Russia CEO Forum.

He was the National Science Talent Search Scholar in Physics at DAV College, Dehradun, and holds a post-graduate degree in English Literature from Meerut University.

Ms Hanne Sorensen
Non-Executive, Independent Director

Ms Sorensen, a Danish national, is on the Boards and Committees of various international companies. She was engaged in various roles within the A.P. Moller–Maersk A/S Group in Denmark between 1994 and 2016, serving as the CEO of Damco, the CEO of Maersk Tankers, and Senior Vice-President and Chief Commercial Officer of Maersk Line.

She is a post-graduate in Economics and Management from the University of Aarhus.

Mr Vinesh K Jairath
Non-Executive, Independent Director

Mr Jairath has served in several important positions with the Government of India and the State Government of Maharashtra. He has over 25 years’ experience in public administration, rural development, infrastructure, finance, industry environmental management and the private sector, as part of the Indian Administrative Service.

He is a post-graduate in Economics from the University of Manchester

Prof Dr Ralf Speth
Non-Executive Director

Prof Dr Speth is on the Board of Jaguar Land Rover Automobile PLC, UK, and is its CEO. With an experience of 20 years at BMW, he served as the Director of Production, Quality and Product Planning at Ford Motor Company's Premier Automotive Group.

He holds a doctor degree in Mechanical Engineering and Business Administration from Warwick University and an Engineering degree from Rosenheim University, Germany.

Ms Falguni S Nayar
Non-Executive, Independent Director

Ms Nayar is, at present, the founder and CEO of a promising e-commerce start-up, Nykaa.com. She has spent over 19 years with Kotak Mahindra Bank, with the last six years as Managing Director and CEO of Kotak Investment Bank.

She is an Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad alumnus.

Ms Vedika Bhandarkar
Non-Executive, Independent Director

Ms Bhandarkar brings more than 25 years of experience with Indian and international financial institutions. At present, she is engaged with Waterorg, a not-for-profit organisation. She was Vice Chairman and Managing Director at Credit Suisse Securities (India) Private Limited from 2010 to 2015.

She is an MBA scholar from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and a Science graduate from the MS University, Udaipur.

Mr Guenter Butschek
CEO and Managing Director

Mr Butschek has over 25 years’ global experience in international automotive management. Besides Daimler AG, he has worked in the Airbus group as its Chief Operating Officer and a member of the Group Executive Committee.

He is a graduate in Business Administration and Economics with a Diploma from the University of Cooperative Education, Stuttgart.

Mr Satish Borwankar
COO & Executive Director

Mr Borwankar started his career with the Company in 1974 as a Graduate Engineer Trainee and has served in various operating functions like manufacturing, quality, vendor development and strategic sourcing, rising through the ranks to become its Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer.

He is a graduate in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.