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Key management

R Mukundan

R Mukundan

Managing Director and CEO

R Mukundan is the Managing Director and CEO of Tata Chemicals.

An engineer from IIT Roorkee, Mr. Mukundan joined the Tata Administrative Service in 1990, after completion of MBA from FMS, Delhi University. He is also an alumnus of the Havard Business School.

During his 26-year career with the Tata group, he has held various responsibilities across the chemical, automotive and hospitality sectors of the group. He serves on executive committees of various industry forums viz the Confederation of Indian Industry, Bombay Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Employers' Federation of India, All India Management Association, etc.

Nandakumar S. Tirumalai

Nandakumar S Tirumalai

Chief Financial Officer

Nandakumar S Tirumalai is Chief Financial Officer of Tata Chemicals Limited.

Mr. Nandakumar joined the Tata Group in 2012 as Head – Treasury and Investor relations in Tata Power after which he assumed the role of Financial Controller and Chief – Subsidiaries Finance. In 2018, he moved to Titan Company Limited as Vice President – Corporate Finance and subsequently, in 2019, began overseeing the entire finance function including Corporate Finance, business finance and subsidiaries.

He graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce from Bangalore University in 1991 and became a Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India & Member of the Institute of Cost Accountants of India in 1994.

He has around 28 years post qualification experience in areas of Treasury & Investors relations, financial controllership, financial planning and analysis, business finance, Subsidiaries Management and M&A in diverse industry verticals (FMCG, Agri commodities, financial services, Textiles, Apparel, Infrastructure and Retail) in multi-cultural environments.

Before joining the Tata Group in 2012, Mr. Nandakumar started his career as a Management Trainee in 1994 with Asea Brown Boveri (ABB) Limited, after which he spent 12 years in ITC Limited in various roles, Reliance Securities as CFO (2007-2009) and thereafter in Raymond Limited as Director – Treasury, Retail and FMCG.

Rajiv Chandan

Rajiv Chandan

Chief General Counsel & Company Secretary

Rajiv Chandan is a fellow member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India, and has a masters' degree in commerce and a law degree from the University of Mumbai.

Mr. Chandan heads the legal, company secretarial and corporate governance functions at Tata Chemicals. He has 25 plus years of experience in the areas of legal, company secretarial, corporate laws, litigations, corporate governance, compliance, mergers and acquisitions and divestments, including cross-border M&A transactions. His experience is spread across diverse industries, including the paper, automobiles, logistics, cement, chemicals, FMCG and fertiliser sectors.

Before joining Tata Chemicals, he was vice president – legal and company secretary, Lafarge Cement, India.

Rahul Pinjarkar

Rahul Pinjarkar

Chief Human Resources Officer

Rahul Pinjarkar is the Chief Human Resources Officer at Tata Chemicals Ltd.

He has over 23 years of experience handling various aspects of the HR functions. His responsibilities encompass driving a culture of meritocracy, enhancing HR functional delivery, fostering positive industrial and employee relations, and effectively managing the change process.

Mr. Pinjarkar joined the Tata Group in June 2018 heading the HR function for Trent Hypermarkets and moved to Tata Chemicals in June 2023. Prior to joining Tata Group, he held HR leadership roles at Philips, Novartis and the Saint-Gobain Group. He brings extensive expertise in creating competitive advantage through human capital and transforming companies into employees’ choices.

Mr. Pinjarkar is recognised as an HR and Organisational Development thought leader and is an active member of external forums such as NHRDN, NASSCOM, CII, ICT Academy, World HRD Congress, CLO Summit, Retail Association of India and TRRAIN.

He holds a Masters in Labour Studies from Mumbai University and is also a certified HRD Auditor and MBTI Accreditor.

Subsidiaries

Mr. Swaminathan Nagarajan

Mr. Swaminathan Nagarajan

Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Tata Chemicals Magadi Limited.

Mr. Swaminathan Nagarajan is currently the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Tata Chemicals Magadi.

Previously, he served as the Chief Operating Officer of Rallis India Limited. He was responsible for operations of both Crop Protection and Seeds businesses. He has a cross functional experience of over 33 years in Sales, Marketing, Customer Service, Operations, Finance & Corp Planning areas. Through various phases of his career, he has managed large-scale activities involving large teams (1200+) and has worked in multiple locations.

Prior to his stint in Rallis, he served as the MD & CEO of Metahelix, an agri biotech company that develops, produces & sells hybrid seeds. Earlier, he was the Executive VP-Corporate at Tata Elxsi Ltd, a technology services & product engineering company. In the past, Mr. Nagarajan headed Visual Computing Labs (VCL), the CG Animation & Visual Effects division of Tata Elxsi Ltd as its COO. He led several change management efforts at the exciting, but challenging business - initially setting up a studio in Los Angeles (Hollywood), multisite delivery centres, a JV in USA etc and then later implementing strong bottom line focussed consolidation initiatives. He is experienced in the full business cycle of incubation, growth & consolidation.

Having worked earlier in Tata Cellular Ltd (which later merged with Birla AT&T Ltd to become Idea Cellular Ltd), the two telecom companies have given him the experience of working in unstructured & high-velocity startups & scaleup contexts. Prior to Tata Cellular, he worked in the Finance & Corporate Planning area at Tata Motors Ltd.

Mr. Nagarajan's professional career began with the Tata Administrative Service in 1991. He holds a B.Tech degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and is a PGDM Gold Medallist from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. He has been on the Board of several industry associations and a member of different committees.

Dr Martin Ashcroft

Dr Martin Ashcroft

Managing Director, Tata Chemicals Europe

Dr Martin Ashcroft is Managing Director of Tata Chemicals Europe. He was appointed on April 1, 2010, having been the operations director since January 1, 2007.

Holding a chemistry degree from Oxford University and a PhD in inorganic chemistry from Manchester University, he held several technical and operating roles in Brunner Mond between 1994 and 2007 including site director of the company's Netherlands site for two years.

During this time he led two business re-engineering programmes for Brunner Mond.

In January 2011, Martin led the company in completing the successful £93 million acquisition of British Salt and then followed up in April 2011 by heading the re-branding of the enlarged company as Tata Chemicals Europe at the same time as each of the Tata Chemicals overseas entities.

Between 2013 and 2015, he designed and led the fundamental restructuring of the management team and Northwich-based operations which included the acquisition and investment in the 400MW combined heat and power (CHP) plant, previously owned by EON.

He is an executive board member of Tata Chemicals Europe Holdings and several subsidiary companies. He is a member of the Tata Global Chemicals Board (GCB) where he leads on Tata Chemicals' interests in Europe.

He is a member of the Cheshire and Warrington Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) board and board member of the Chemical Industries Association.

In 2016, he was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC).

He is qualified to Grade 8 standard on violin, piano and organ, and plays regularly at choral services and occasional recitals.


John Mulhall

John Mulhall

Managing Director, Tata Chemicals North America

John Mulhall was appointed as Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer of Tata Chemicals North America Inc. on May 1, 2021.

Prior to this appointment he was Chief Financial Officer of Tata Chemicals Limited from October 2015.

Mr. Mulhall joined Tata Chemicals in 2007 as the European Finance Director of their recently acquired subsidiary, Brunner Mond (UK), followed by positions in Tata Chemicals North America Inc., (VP and CFO) and Tata Chemicals International Pte in Singapore (CFO) before relocating to Mumbai in 2015.

He is a graduate of the University of Strathclyde and a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland

Dr Gyanendra Shukla

Dr Gyanendra Shukla

Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer, Rallis

Dr Gyanendra Shukla was appointed on the Board of Rallis as Managing Director & CEO on April 1, 2024.

Dr Gyanendra Shukla has completed his MBA in General Management from S. P. Jain Institute of Management & Research; Ph.D. in Botany (Researched on quantitative genetics) from Kanpur University; bachelor’s degree in agriculture and animal husbandry & master’s in Agronomy from G. B. Pant University of Agriculture & Technology.

Dr Gyanendra Shukla is a senior Agri professional with more than 35 years of leadership experience in Crop Protection & Seed Sector in India, Asia-pacific & Africa region. He has managed various senior functional & general management roles in Commercial, Sales, Corporate Affairs, Technology development & Regulatory Affairs function.