TATA Green Batteries success is supported and driven by its dynamic leadership team
Arijit Dutta
Business Unit Head – TATA Autocomp GY Batteries Pvt. Ltd.Arijit is a PGDBM (Marketing/Finance) from XLRI Jamshedpur and BE (Mechanical) from Jadhavpur University. Arijit started his career in 1991 with TATA Motors Ltd. and has worked with many prestigious organizations including Cummins and Mahindra & Mahindra across various functions like Sales & Marketing, Supply Chain & Operations. He joined TATA Green Batteries as Head – Marketing in August’ 09 and in March’10 he was assigned the responsibility as a Business Unit Head of the company.
Hitoshi Inazumi
Executive Advisor to BU HeadGraduated in Economics from Shiga University, Japan. Hitoshi Inazumi started his career in the year 1978 with Japan Storage Battery Co., Ltd. presently known as GS Yuasa International Ltd. In 1992, he moved to Germany as General Manager of the Europe Liaison Japan Storage Battery Co., Ltd. In the year 1997, he moved to Italy as the Managing Director of FIAMM-GS S.p.A. before moving back to Japan in 1998 to look after the International Marketing & Sales Department of Japan Storage Battery Co., Ltd. In 2003, he again moved out of Japan and handled the responsibility as the President of Shandong Huari Battery Co., Ltd. in China. He also remained the General Manager of Planning Department, GS Yuasa International Ltd. He is Working as Executive Advisor to the BU Head at Pune (India) .
Ichiro Hatanaka
Vice President – Operations Graduated from Kyushu University in Japan from Faculty of Engineering in 1980. As a dynamic young engineer, he joined Japan Storage Batteries Co., Ltd. in the same year. He was instrumental in setting up many manufacturing lines throughout his 30 year tenure and gained expertise in various aspects of battery manufacturing and operations. He came to India in 2011 and took over as Vice President – Operations of TATA AutoComp GY Batteries Pvt. Ltd.
Ghanshyam Malik
Head – Sales (OE / Institutional Sales) & ExportBE (Mechanical) from Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh; Management from AIMA. Ghanshyam Malik heads the Automotive / Non-Automotive OEM / Institutional and Export Division of TATA AutoComp GY Batteries Pvt. Ltd. He started his career in 1980 and has worked with leading automotive & engineering organizations like Escorts, Punjab Tractors, MNC’s – MESSER & Whallon.
Upendra Gadre
Chief Financial OfficerUpendra is a qualified CFA from ICFAI, Hyderabad. He also holds a Master’s degree in Business Management in Finance and a Bachelor’s degree in Instrumentation Engineering from Government College of Engineering, Pune. He brings with him 18 years of work experience in the area of finance, production planning, material planning, logistics and system development in diverse industries..
Milind Patil
Head – Operations BE (Mechanical) from Walchand College of Engineering, Sangli, Maharashtra. Milind Patil heads the Operations Division of TATA AutoComp GY Batteries Pvt. Ltd. He started his career in the year 1986 with Bajaj Auto Ltd. He has worked with prestigious organizations such as Philips India Ltd. and Helvoet Rubber and Plastics Technologies (I) Pvt Ltd. before joining TATA AutoComp GY Batteries in Sept’10. Milind is a trained lean manufacturing champion by JBS.
Masashi Shiota
Head Technical Masashi Shiota graduated from Department of Precision Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University in 1997. He started his career with Yuasa Corp., where he held various roles in the research and development department and technical department of the company. He served the company for 15 years, his most recent role being Manager, Oversees Group, Automotive Battery Technical Department, GS Yuasa International Ltd. He recently joined Tata AutoComp GY Batteries Pvt. Ltd. as a Resident Officer.
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