SHRI SUBODH BHARGAVA
CHAIRMAN, TATA COMMUNICATIONS LIMITED

Shri Subodh Bhargava received degree in Mechanical Engineering from the erstwhile University of Roorkee in 1962 and began his professional career with Balmer Lawrie and Company at Calcutta. Thereafter, he joined the Eicher Group of Companies in 1975, and quickly rose up the ladder to become the Chairman and Chief Executive of the Group in 1997, a position he held till his retirement in 2000.

Shri Bhargava was the President of Association of Indian Automobile Manufacturers and Vice President of Tractor Manufacturers Association in which capacity he made exemplary contribution to the Indian Automobile Industry. He provided valuable service to the nation in developing and nurturing the automobile industry through total quality management, research and development, and technology and customer. His stewardship of the Eicher Group led to a paradigm shift in the basic approach of the Company by diversifying from a single-product and single-location enterprise to a multi-product and multi-location conglomerate of global stature.

The Confederation of Indian Industry deservedly honored Shri Bhargava for his enterprise by electing him as its President during 1994-95. He was a key spokesperson for Indian industry, contributing to and influencing government policy at the National level while simultaneously working with industry through adopting value and ethics based practices, exemplary corporate governance, innovation and globalization to evolve new responses to the changing environment.

Shri Bhargava was a Member of several Government appointed Task Forces and Committees, like the Justice Eradi Committee for Insolvency Laws, the Nair Committee to study the Future Perspectives for Sustainable Growth of Ordinance Factories, the Committee of the Technology Development Board, the Professor Iswar Dayal Committee on the future Perspective for Management Education in India, and the Professor P. Rama Rao Review Committee for the Indian Institutes of Technology.

He was a Member, Senate of University of Roorkee; Member, Board of Governors of IIM, Indore; IIM, Lucknow; Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi; and, Entrepreneur Development Institute, Ahmedabad. He is currently the Chairman of Tata Communications Ltd.; GlaxoSmithKline Healthcare Limited, TRF Ltd.; Tata Communications International Pte Ltd.; Advisory Board, Wartsila India Ltd. and a Member on the Boards of Tata Steel Ltd; Tata Motors Ltd, Larsen & Toubro Ltd; Batliboi Ltd; SunBorne Energy Holding LLC; Bhartiya Yuva Shakti Trust; National Centre for Promoting Employment for Disabled Persons; Centre for Policy Research; Technology Development Board; IIM, Kashipur and other Institutions for Graduate Engineering and Bachelors and Master’s Degree programmes in Business Management.

Shri Bhargava was conferred the first “Distinguished Alumnus Award” in 2005 by IIT (Roorkee); and, in 2011 the “Gaurav Shri Award” was conferred by Agra University upon him. He has also been recognized as the “Best Independent Director 2011” by Asian Center for Corporate Governance and Association chaired by Mr. Mervyn King. Shri Bhargava has been recognized and honored for excellence in entrepreneurship, innovation and leadership by Horasis (The Global Visions Community) and was awarded the “Global India Business Leader of the Year - 2013.”

In addition to his services to the Country as a technocrat-manager, Shri Bhargava is also a philanthropist of repute.

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