Maruti Board has approved series of senior management changes. The company’s Chief Technology Officer, C V Raman and Shashank Srivastava Head- Marketing and Sales are now Member Executive Committee with effect from April 1. Tarun Aggarwal is designated as Head- Engineering and Partho Banerjee is designated as Head – Marketing & Sales.
Further changes in the management role include Sandeep Raina taking over as the head or product planning, while Ram Suresh Akella will take over as head of service for Maruti Suzuki. Sunil Kakkar will hand over the role of head of supply chain to Deepak Thukral, and Rahul Bharti will take over the role of head of corporate affairs for the carmaker.
A quick look at the new management
Tarun Aggarwal is presently the Executive Officer and Head of the Powertrain vertical. He has been with MSIL for the past 34 years. He has worked in various areas of engineering including Electrical, Connected Systems, Product Planning, Styling and Design. He has a bachelor’s degree in engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra.
Sandeep Raina is presently Executive Vice President and Head of Product Development and Cost & Program Management. He has been with MSIL for over 30 years where he began his career. He has a bachelor’s degree in Engineering from IIT, Roorkee and an MBA from MDI, Gurgaon.
Partho Banerjee is presently Head of Service. He has been with MSIL for the past 34 years, where he began his career. He has worked across various verticals in MSIL, including Sales, Marketing and Production Engineering.
Ram Suresh Akella is presently the Executive Officer in the Marketing Vertical. He has been with MSIL for over 31 years, where he began his career. He has worked in various areas, such as Sales and Network Head at Arena channel, and Commercial Business head of South region.