IIT-Kharagpur on Tuesday stated TV Narendran, CEO and Managing Director of Tata Metal Restricted, has been appointed as the brand new Chairman of its Board of Governors.
ProfVK Tewari, Director, IIT-Kharagpur, stated, “We welcome TV Narendran as the brand new Chairperson of the Board of Governors of IIT-Kharagpur. As a person beholding technical and industrial supremacy, he understands the necessity of the society and sensible implications of industry-academia amalgamation with a technical establishment. We look ahead to his ready steering, constructive ideations and supportive encouragement in reshaping this institute for its future aspirations.”
A mechanical engineer from the Nationwide Institute of Expertise (NIT), Trichy, and MBA from the Indian Institute of Administration (IIM), Calcutta, Narendran joined Tata Metal in 1988. He labored within the worldwide buying and selling division from 1988 to 1997, together with 5 years in Dubai overseeing Tata Metal’s exports to West Asia. From 1997 to 2001, he was within the advertising and gross sales division, concerned in market growth for the chilly rolling mill venture, provide chain administration, gross sales planning, and so forth. From 2001 to 2003, he was chief of selling and gross sales (lengthy merchandise) and performed a key function in constructing the ‘Tata Tiscon’ model and its distribution community. From 2003 to 2005, he labored with B Muthuraman, the then managing director of of Tata Metal, as his principal government officer. Earlier than being appointed as MD-Tata Metal India and South East Asia in 2013, Narendran was vice-president of the protection and flat merchandise division. He’s presently on the boards of Tata Metal Restricted, Tata Metal Europe, CEDEP, XLRI and World Metal Affiliation.
