Monday, August 31, 2015

C Ramakrishnan: Tata Motors President And Group CFO

Chandrasekaran Ramakrishnan graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Commerce and is a Chartered Accountant and a Cost Accountant. In 1980 C Ramakrishnan joined Tata Motors Limited as a Junior Accounts Officer in H.O. Accounts. He handled corporate treasury and accounting functions as well as management accounting. C Ramakrishnan was responsible for a two-year company-wide IT project covering R&D, manufacturing, sourcing and sales & service. He then worked in the Chairman’s Office for the last 6 years. 
C Ramakrishnan was part of the high profile team that forged the recent alliance with Italy’s number one care maker Fiat. He was deeply involved in working out the details of the deal with Fiat. He served as a Vice President of the Chairman’s Office and Executive Director of Finance of Tata Motors. C Ramakrishnan is a group veteran and has been involved in various large activities related to Tata Motors. 
He has been the Chief Financial Officer at Tata Motors Limited since September 18, 2007 and serves as its President and Compliance Officer.  In July 2015 he was promoted to group CFO. Now CFOs of all Tata Motors subsidiaries like Jaguar Land Rover, Daewoo among others will report to him. 
C Ramakrishnan serves as Director of Tata Motors Insurance Services Limited, Jaguar Land Rover India Limited, Fiat India Automobile Limited, Tata Cummings Limited, Sheba Properties Limited, Tata Daewoo Commercial Vehicle Co. Limited, Jaguar Land Rover Automotive PLC, UK, Tata Motors (SA) (Proprietary) Limited, Tata Hispano Motors Carrocera, SA, Tata Motors (Thailand)  Limited and Tata Service Limited. He serves as a Non-Executive Director of Tata Technologies Limited and Tata Motors Finance Limited. C Ramakrishnan has been a Director of TML Holdings Pte Ltd, since February 4, 2008.
He was awarded the Indian Industries best CFO award at the CNBC TV 18 CFO awards held in October 2010. C Ramakrishnan was also conferred the CFO of the year for India, by Asset Triple A Transaction Banking Awards 2011, among various awards he has  received. 
Tata Motors is the largest automaker in India. 

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