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Mr. Kishor Chaukar
Kishor A. Chaukar (57), currently the Managing Director of Tata Industries
Limited (TIL), is a post-graduate in Management from the Indian Institute
of Management at Ahmedabad.
TIL is one of the two principal holding companies of the Tata Group,
India’s largest and best known conglomerate. TIL acts as the
diversification and new projects-promotion arm of the Group, and spearheads
the entry of the Group in the emerging high-tech and mtors of the
economy.
In his capacity as Managing Director of TIL, Mr. Chaukar is responsible
for enhancing the value and the interest of TIL in TIL-promoted companies.
One of the tasks performed in the quest for this value enhancement
is to provide strategic direction to these companies.
Mr. Chaukar is a member of the Group Corporate Centre, which is engaged
in strategy formulation at the House of Tata. He is on the Board of
various Tata companies like Information Technology Park Limited, Tata
Teleservices Limited, Idea Cellular Limited, Videsh Sanchar Nigam
Limited, among others. Mr. Chaukar is also the Chairman of Tata Council
for Community Initiatives (TCCI) – the nodal agency of the Group
on all matters related to social development, environmental management,
bio-diversity restoration and conservation of wild life.
Mr. Chaukar was previously the Managing Director of ICICI Securities
& Finance Company Limited (July 1993 to October 1998), and a member
of the Board of Directors of ICICI Limited from February 9, 1995 to
October 15, 1998). His other experiences include stints in Bhartiya
Agro Industries Foundation, a Public Trust engaged in rural development
on a no-profit no-loss basis and based in Pune, Maharashtra and Godrej
Soaps Limited. |
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