The organisation chart provides an idea of the reporting relationship followed at Tata Sponge and the cumulative statistics of the departments indicating their module of operation:
Mr. T V Narendran
Mr. T. V. Narendran is a mechanical engineer from REC (NIT), Trichy and an MBA from IIM Calcutta. Currently, he is CEO & MD of Tata Steel Ltd. He is having more than 30 years of experience in metal and mining industry. He has extensive experience in many areas including Marketing & Sales, International Trade, Supply Chain, Planning, Operation & General Management, in India and abroad. In 2005, he was actively involved in the Tata Steel's first overseas acquisition, NatSteel and played a key role in its integration with Tata Steel. Eventually, he led the operations in NatSteel and took over as its President & CEO on January 1, 2008. Mr. Narendran was appointed as the Managing Director (India & South-East Asia) in November, 2013. During his tenure, Tata Steel has successfully executed and commissioned one of the largest greenfield projects in India – The Kalinganagar Steel Plant in Odisha and also enhanced its ability to deliver to higher value segments like steel for automobiles. He is a member of Executive Committee of the World Steel Association. Besides this, he is part of various prestigious organization both at global and Indian level, namely National Council of CII, BRICS Business Council, India Myanmar Joint Trade & Investment Forum, etc.
Mr. Ansuman Das
Mr. Das graduated in Mechanical Engineering from Regional Engineering College (Presently National Institute of Technology), Rourkela in the year 1976 and completed post-graduation course in Aeronautical Productions from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Chennai. He has also completed MBA from University of Hull, United Kingdom with a British Council Scholarship under the Colombo Plan. Initially he joined National Aluminum Company Limited (NALCO) in 1982 as a Senior Engineer and rose to the level of Chairman-cum-Managing Director (CMD). He has also worked in Mines, Metals & Power sector after a stint in Aeronautical Production for Defense. He mostly dealt in matters of Corporate Governance, Corporate Plan & Strategies, Projects, Environment & Sustainability, Marketing & Commercial, Human Resources, Finance, Production and Corporate Social Responsibilities for inclusive Growth. He served as Chairman and Member of various search cum selection committees for Top Government Appointments including Regulatory Bodies, Government led SPV’s/Programmes etc. Mr. Das was appointed as Member, “Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB), Government of India, in the rank of a Secretary to the Government of India. He was assigned Charge of Chairman, Public Enterprises Selection Board by Government of India from July 2017 till August 2018.
Mr. P.C. Parakh
A post graduate from IIT (Roorkee), Mr. Parakh is a retired IAS officer of the Andhra Pradesh cadre. In his parent cadre Mr. Parakh held several important positions and had a long tenure in Industry Ministry. He was instrumental in developing Hyderabad as an important investment destination. At Centre he worked in the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas and retired in December 2005 as Secretary, Ministry of Coal. Post retirement, he is settled in Hyderabad and works for two NGOs involved in welfare of physically challenged persons and kidney patients.
Mr. Shashi Kant Maudgal
Mr. Maudgal is a Chemical Engineer from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and a Master of Business Administration from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. He has also done the Advanced Management Program from Harvard University. In his nearly four decades of industry experience, Mr. Maudgal has worked in India, the United States of America, London & South Korea. He was the President and Chief Executive Officer of Novelis (Asia) - an Aditya Birla Group Company - in Seoul, South Korea from 2012-16. Mr. Maudgal has held various other positions in the Aditya Birla Group including Chief Marketing Officer for the aluminum business and CEO of the Foil and Wheel business. He is presently on a project assignment at the Aditya Birla Group serving as Chief Executive (Integration) at UltraTech Cement. Mr. Maudgal has been on the Boards of Hindalco Almex Aerospace Limited, Novelis Asia and Aluminum Company of Malaysia Berhad and currently serves on the Board of The Tinplate Company of India Limited as an Independent Director. In Seoul, he was the Chairman of the Indian Chamber of Commerce in Korea, between 2013-15. Earlier in his career, Mr. Maudgal has worked in various capacities with reputed companies such as Asian Paints, Hindustan Ciba-Geigy, Arvind Mills and Ceat, and thus has valuable multi-industry experience.
Mr. Srikumar Menon
Mr. Menon is a Chartered Accountant and a Commerce Graduate from Hindu College, Delhi University and has more than 40 years of experience in business management & leadership and Finance. Mr. Menon commenced his career in October 1978 with Balmer Lawrie, where he devoted 16 years in finance functions holding various positions on PAN-India level and thereafter joined a joint venture of Balmer Lawrie, as CFO in 1994. In 1998, Mr. Menon joined Linde India Ltd (previously BOC India), Pidilite Industries in 2000 and again joined Linde India Ltd. in October 2001 as Finance Director and took over as the Managing Director of the Company in October 2008 and continued to hold the position until July 2013. He took over the responsibility for the South Asia cluster comprising of India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka in January 2012 and was formally designated as the Managing Director, South Asia of the Linde Group in August 2013. He retired in December 2014 as the Managing Director, South Asia for the Linde Group. Mr. Menon has also held various positions in prestigious organization viz. past President of The Tollygunge Club, member of its General Committee, Council Member of the Eastern Region of the Indo-German Chamber of Commerce, a member of General Committee of CII etc. /p>
Dr. Sougata Ray
Dr. Sougata Ray is a Professor of Strategic Management, Faculty Member on the Board of Governors and former Dean of the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIMC) and a Visiting Professor and Member of Advisory Board of the Thomas Schmidheiny Centre for Family Enterprise of Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad. An alumnus of IIEST, Shibpur (formerly B.E. College, Shibpur) and IIM Ahemdabad, Sougata blends three decades of experiences in diverse roles – a researcher, visiting scholar, teacher and institution builder in some of the finest institutions in Asia, Europe and North America, an independent director in the Boards of publicly listed companies, an advisor to many medium and large corporations, family businesses and start ups and as Principal Consultant to leading International Development Agencies, in a strategic role in an emerging market MNC at a senior management level, and a frontline executive in a Maharatna State Owned Enterprise. Sougata specializes on strategy, corporate governance, international business, innovations, and entrepreneurship. Perhaps the most prolific and cited strategic management scholar in India, Sougata has written over 100 research papers, monographs, book chapters, case studies and published in top tier international journals and has served in editorial positions of leading management journals. He has taught in scores of executive education programs in India as well as abroad and conducted many workshops exclusively for Entrepreneurs, Owner-managers & C-Level Executives of companies in India, Asian, Middle Eastern and Nordic countries.
Mr. Koushik Chatterjee
Mr. Koushik Chatterjee is a Commerce graduate from Calcutta University and a qualified Chartered Accountant from ICAI. Currently, he is Executive Director and Chief Financial Officer of Tata Steel Ltd. He is having more than 23 years of experience in metal and mining industry. He has extensive experience in many areas like Group Financial Reporting, Investor Relations, Financing Strategy including debt and equity raising, Corporate M&A, Risk Management and Compliance, Taxation Strategy and planning, co-ordination of statutory and management reporting, Legal and Regulatory Affairs, Corporate Communications, Strategic Procurement, Information Systems, Group Investments, Global Mining Projects and Assurance. During his tenure, Mr. Chatterjee has led the first overseas acquisition of Tata Steel i.e. NatSteel Asia followed by the acquisition of a Millennium Steel (now Tata Steel Thailand) in Thailand. In 2006-07, he played a critical role in the acquisition of Corus Group plc for USD 13.7 billion, leading the Country’s largest capital raising process for the acquisition. He is also a member of the International Integrated Reporting Council, Global Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures, Switzerland, the B20 Task Forces and is a Director of the World Steel Association, Brussels, Belgium. He has been appointed as the first Indian on the Global Preparers Forum, which is an advisory body of the International Accounting Standards Board, London. He has also been a visiting faculty in Corporate Finance at XLRI, Jamshedpur. /p>
Mrs. Meena Lall
Mrs. Meena Lall is the Chief - Legal & Compliance at Tata Steel. She has done her LLB and B. Sc. from Rani Durgavati Vishwavidyalaya, Jabalpur. She comes from a family of Advocates and judges. After a stint of practice in High Court, Mrs. Lall joined Tata Steel in 1990 in the legal department. Since then she has handled complex issues and has gained experience in diverse fields of law, interacted and worked with several Counsels. Mrs. Lall was a director on a subsidiary of Tata Steel, before coming on the board of Tata Sponge. /p>
Mr. Ashish Anupam
Mr. Ashish Anupam is a B.E. in Mechanical from BIT, Mesra, Ranchi. He has also completed General Management Programme from CEDEP (INSEAD, France). Mr. Ashish joined Tata Steel Limited at Jamshedpur in the year 1991 as a Graduate Trainee. Since then, he has worked in the areas of Rolling Mills, International Trading Division and Marketing & Sales for various products (Flat Product, Long Products & Tubes) in various capacities. In 2004, he was promoted as Chief - Marketing and Sales (Tubes). In 2010, he moved as Chief - Marketing & Sales (Long Products) and returned to the Tubes Division as Executive-In-Charge in 2013. Mr. Ashish Anupam, is serving as President & CEO, NatSteel Holdings Pte. Ltd, since July 15.
Mr. Sanjay Kumar Pattnaik
Mr. Pattnaik joined Tata Steel in 1983 and since then, has served in various divisions of the organisation, including raw materials, port operations and logistics solutions, liaison and business facilitation and policy and regulatory affairs relating to mining. In 2014, he joined the Board of Tata Sponge as an Executive Director. He is also on the Board of T.M. Mining Company Ltd. (a Tata Steel Joint Venture). Apart from this, he has been in leading positions in several industry associations, including Federation of Indian Mineral Industries (FIMI), Mining Engineers Association of India (MEAI) and the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), Odisha State Council. Mr. Pattnaik is a graduate in Mining Engineering and has also done Advanced Management Programme from CEDEP – INSEAD, France. /p>
Tata Sponge Board Committees
Management Personnel
Mr. Sanjay Kumar Pattnaik
Managing Director
Mr. P. Chattopadhyay
Chief Operating Officer (Sponge Business)
Mr. U. Chatterjee
Chief Business Development Officer
Mr. S.K. Mishra
Chief Financial Officer (Finance & Accounts)