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For someone who has seen it all and done it all, J.P. Chalasani, group CEO, Suzlon remains very enthusiastic about work and the power sector. He joined Suzlon in 2016, bringing to the organisation all […]
Tariff Authority for Major Ports’ (TAMP) director, Anuradha H. Sharma has been associated with the authority for more than 18 years. TAMP was constituted by an amendment to the Major Port Trust Act, 1963, by […]
Commissioner of the Municipal Corporation of Gurugram and additional chief executive officer (CEO) of the Gurugram Metropolitan Development Authority (GMDA), V. Umashankar was recently elevated to full-time CEO of the newly formed development agency. Umashankar […]
Currently the chief technology officer of Bharti Infratel, Alka Selot Asthana joined the Indian Telecom Service in 1993. In 1996, she joined a team responsible for installing and commissioning the first Siemens EWSD TAX Exchange […]
Balraj Joshi was appointed chairman and managing director of NHPC Limited in September 2017 and also holds additional charge as director, technical. He started his career with NHPC as a probationary executive at the Salal […]
Anoop Kumar Agrawal, managing director, Indian Port Rail Corporation Limited (IPRCL), has held this post for over a year. IPRCL was incorporated as a special purpose vehicle under the Companies Act, 2013, in order to […]
B.B. Chauhan, managing director, Gujarat Energy Transmission Corporation (GETCO) brings to the table more than three decades of experience in the generation and transmission segments. After obtaining a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, he started […]
Municipal commissioner of Surat, M. Thennarasan, is a 2000 batch IAS officer of the Gujarat cadre. Over the years, he has worked across different sectors. He started his career as assistant collector at Gandhinagar […]
Coming to India to head Wärtsilä as president and managing director (MD) in April was a homecoming of sorts for Neeraj Sharma because he had worked with the company about 20 years ago, from 1993 […]
India’s power sector has seen several sweeping changes in the recent past,” notes P.R. Jaishankar, chief general manager, India Infrastructure Finance Company Limited (IIFCL). “Generation has increased significantly, domestic coal production has improved and the […]
Sanjeev Kumar Lohia is the managing director (MD) and chief executive officer (CEO) of the world’s largest transit-oriented development (TOD) and public-private partnership (PPP) initiative – the Indian Railway Stations Development Corporation (IRSDC). At IRSDC, […]
Cochin Shipyard Limited’s (CSL) chairman and managing director (CMD), Madhu S. Nair, has 27 years of professional experience with the shipyard. He joined as an executive trainee in June 1988, worked in the entire gamut […]
A veteran in the railway sector, Mritunjay Pratap Singh, chief executive officer (CEO), High Speed Rail Corporation Limited (HSRC), is an Indian Railway Services of Engineers officer of the 1991 batch. He comes with over […]
Madhukar R. Umarji retired as an executive director of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). After his retirement, he worked as the legal chief for the Indian Banks Association for 14 years. An acknowledged authority […]
With a distinguished career of over 30 years in hydropower, Devendra Kumar Sharma was, in April 2017, appointed to run one of India’s most successful dams, the Bhakra dam. He is the new chairman of the […]
As managing director, Chennai Metro Rail Limited (CMRL), Pankaj Kumar Bansal has the mammoth task of managing the 161.12 km Chennai metro rail project. His responsibilities are numerous and involve various challenges. Commenting on the […]
Ravindra Kumar Verma, chairman, Central Electricity Authority (CEA), has industry experience of over 38 years. He began his career as a power system planner with the CEA in 1981, later moving to grid operations where, […]
With over three and a half decades of experience in infrastructure engineering and development, Subhash Sethi is the chairman of SPML Infra Limited. Sethi started his entrepreneurial journey with a small water pumps business in […]
A1989 batch officer of the Indian Railway Accounts Services, Santosh Kumar Pattanayak has recently joined Indian Railway Finance Corporation Limited (IRFC) as its managing director. In his current position, he is responsible for raising extrabudgetary […]
Vivek Johri has been the new chief commissioner of the Jawaharlal Nehru Customs House (JNCH) since July 2017. The customs house has the record for the highest revenue collection in the country. As chief commissioner, […]
