Venu Srinivasan, chairman, Sundaram-Clayton and TVS Motor Company, and Ajay Piramal, chairman, Piramal Group and the Shriram Group, have been appointed as non-executive directors of Tata Sons.
Mr Srinivasan is one of India’s leading industrialists, and has served as the president of the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) for the year 2009-10, president of the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM) for the period 1999-2001 and chairman of the National Safety Council, Government of India.
Ajay Piramal is one of India’s leading industrialists. He serves on the Harvard Business School’s Board of Dean’s Advisors, serves as the chairman of Pratham (the world’s largest NGO in primary education) and was the former chairman of the board of governors of IIT Indore.
