Profile of our Management Team
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Mr. Rajan Nanda
Chairman and Managing Director, Mr. Rajan Nanda has been instrumental in chartering the growth of Escorts as a leading engineering company with worldclass manufacturing setup. Under his leadership, the Company has successfully navigated unprecedented challenges and grown consistently in capabilities, influence, technological advances and response to customer needs. Mr. Nanda has strengthened Escorts’ foundation by leveraging its inherent design and development capabilities, instituting lean manufacturing practices, and moved up the value chain by efficient asset management.
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Mr. Nikhil Nanda
Managing Director, Mr. Nikhil Nanda is designing Escorts’ transformational journey from being a product company to becoming a technologydriven brand that creates customer-centric solutions to add value to customers’ lives. Under his dynamic leadership, the company has introduced a series of innovative products and solutions that demonstrate excellence in manufacturing quality and market know-how. He has played a stellar role in leveraging Escorts’ inherent capabilities to strengthen its position as a company dedicated to frugal engineering excellence and put pioneering cutting-edge products in the marketplace. Mr. Nanda is an alumnus of Wharton Business School, Philadelphia, with majors in Management and Marketing.
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Mr. S Sridhar
Chief Executive Officer, Escorts Agri Machinery, Mr. S. Sridhar, Agriculture Engineer possesses 28 years of rich experience in engineering, automotive and manufacturing industries. He has undergone a year-long Senior Management training with ESMT, Germany. Mr. Sridhar specializes in brand and business strategies, inspired by the Chinese war guru Sun Tzu. He started his career at Mahindra and Mahindra Limited’s tractor division and acquired vast operational experience in TVS Suzuki. He was the former CEO (2 wheeler) and then the President (motorcycle) of Bajaj Auto Limited. He played a major role in firming up the strategy roadmap for Bajaj Auto.
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Mr. Sunil Saksena
Chief Executive Officer, Escorts Construction Equipment, Mr. Sunil Saksena is a mechanical engineer with 35 years of diverse experience in various functional and leadership positions in business operations. In his last assignment, Mr. Saksena was the EVP – Sales & Marketing and Business Development at JCB India. He has previously worked with Tata Motors and handled important assignments like Manufacturing, Direct Sales, Corporate Planning, Government Affairs, Sales & Marketing, etc. Mr. Saksena did his B.Tech from IIT Kharagpur and CFA from ICFAI, Hyderabad.
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Mr. Dipankar Ghosh
Chief Executive Officer, Escorts Railway Products & Escorts Auto Products, Mr. Dipankar Ghosh has 25 years of rich experience in full lifecycle product development, manufacturing operations, engineering management, business development, and technology transfer from many Railway OEMs to India. He is an ex-Indian Railways Service officer and was the Vice President with John Deere India in his last assignment. In his previous assignments, he had been heading the Bombardier Transportation Global Design Centre in India and later also as Director of Caterpillar India. Mr. Ghosh is a post graduate in Engineering from BITS Pilani, and has done his management from Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, besides Advanced Global Leadership from London School of Economics as a British Chevening Scholar.
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Mr. Ishan Mehta
Executive Vice President – HR & ER, Mr. Ishan Mehta, alumnus of Xavier’s Labour Research Institute (XLRI), possesses over 33 years of experience in HR and ER strategies, organisational effectiveness and workplace improvement. He previously worked with DCM Limited, Ballarpur Industries, Eicher Group and East India Hotels (EIH).
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Mr. Ajay Sharma
Group General Counsel & Company Secretary, Mr. Ajay Sharma is an associate member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India and a Law Graduate. He has over 23 years of post-qualification experience in the field of Corporate Law, Overseas Acquisition, Legal Due Diligence, Joint Ventures Structuring, with specific focus on International Laws. He has been instrumental in developing and implementing statutory and legal controls aimed at improving compliances and competitively positioned the companies for successful implementation of Compliance Management. Prior to joining Escorts, Mr. Sharma worked with Bharat Forge Limited.