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High Profile Appointments in Auto Industry in 2016

General Motors elected its CEO Mary Barra to take on the added role of chairman at the company. She replaced former Cummins Diesel Chairman and CEO Theodore Solso
Harman appointed it's CFO Pradeep Chaudhry as the company's Country Manager for India operations. He succeeded M Lakshmi Narayan.
Tata Motors hired former Airbus Chief Operating Officer Guenter Butschek as its managing director and chief executive of local operations, filling up the positions left vacant after the death of Karl Slym in January 2014.
Honda Cars India appointed Yoichiro Ueno as the new President & CEO with effect from April 1, 2016. He took over from Katsushi Inoue.
Toyota Kirloskar Motor appointed Akito Tachibana as the new managing director. The appointment came into effect from April 1, 2016. He succeeded Naomi Ishii.
Bosch India appointed Vijay Pandey as the Regional President of the Automotive Aftermarket division of the company, as well as of Saarc region. The previous head of the Automotive Aftermarket division, Guenter Weber returned to Germany.

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Escorts Agri machinery appointed Ravi A Menon as the chief executive officer. Menon succeeded S Sridhar.
Ashok Leyland revived the position of Chief Technology Officer after a gap of about three years with the appointment of Seshu Bhagavathula, a Ph.D holder from University of Stuttgart and a long-time Daimler executive.

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Scania India appointed Sunil Kumar Mittra as the Chairman of both the company's Boards for Industrial and Commercial operations.
Hero MotoCorp appointed Malo Le Masson as the new Head of Global Product Planning. He is responsible for Hero's entire product planning for its global markets, including the domestic market in India.
Shell Lubricants India appointed Mansi Madan Tripathy as the new Managing Director of the company. Tripathy, former CMO of Shell Lubricants, succeeded Nitin Prasad.
Suzuki Motor Corp appointed Toshihiro Suzuki as the new chief executive officer after Osamu Suzuki step down from the position to take responsibility for the firm's use of incorrect testing methods to calculate vehicle mileage.
Suzuki Motorcycle India appointed Sajeev Rajasekharan as its new Executive Vice President for Sales & After-Sales. In this capacity, he is responsible for driving growth in market share.
Mercedes-Benz appointed Michael Jopp as the Vice-President of Sales and Marketing in India, effective August 1, 2016. The new appointment comes into effect as Boris Fitz, Vice-President, Sales and Network Development, completed his tenure in India.
Honeywell Automation India appointed Ashish Gaikwad as its managing director effective October 1, 2016. Gaikwad succeeded Vikas Chadha, who became president, Honeywell India.
Volvo Cars appointed Nalin Jain as the Chief Financial Officer. He comes to Volvo Auto India from Volkswagen Group where he was working as CFO with the India Sales team until 2015.
Isuzu Motors India has appointed Hiroshi Nakagawa as the Chairman of the company. Hiroyasu Miura, erstwhile Chairman of Isuzu Motors India took over as the Chairman & Managing Director of Isuzu Engineering Business Centre India.
Apollo Tyres appointed Daniele Lorenzetti as the company’s Chief Technology Officer. He spearheads Apollo Tyres’ global initiatives towards research and development, for both passenger vehicle and commercial vehicle tyres.
Indian arm of MAN Trucks appointed Joerg Mommertz as Chairman & Managing Director with effect from October 1, 2016. He has around 36 years of diversified management experience.
VE Commercial Vehicles appointed Vinod Aggarwal as the company's Managing Director. He has over 34 years of experience.
Eicher Polaris appointed Pankaj Dubey as the Chief Executive Officer of the company, effective November 3, 2016. Pankaj Dubey is also the Managing Director of Polaris India.
Bosch appointed Soumitra Bhattacharya as the Managing Director of the company with effect from January 1, 2017. He will succeed Dr Steffen Berns.
Nissan Motor and Renault CEO Carlos Ghosn has been named the chairman of Nissan controlled Mitsubishi Motors.
Audi appointed Rahil Ansari as the head of Indian operations effective February 1, 2017. Ansari took over from Australian Joe King, who moved back to Germany a few months back.

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