Tata Sons announces organisational changes

Three former GEC members Mukund Rajan, Gopichand Katragadda and Harish Bhat -- all three long-time Tata employees -- have been retained. In his new role Rajan will be in charge of ethics and sustainability as well as overseeing the offices of overseas representative offices in China, Singapore, Dubai and US. Bhat in addition to being responsible for strategy and business development will handle marketing and customer centricity role that he held earlier. Katragadda will continue to be Group Chief Technology Officer.

 All three had worked with the Tata Group in various capacities before the appointment of Cyrus Mistry as chairman of Tata Sons and were widely expected to stay on with the group albeit with changed job responsibilities.

New appointments include S Padmanabhan who will handle human resources for the group in addition to his existing responsibility of the Tata Business Excellence Group. Sanjay Singh will oversee the public affairs function from the New Delhi office of the Tata’s.

 Tata Sons’ also announced the departure of Nirmalaya Kumar, N S Rajan and Madhu Kannan. All three had joined the group after Cyrus Mistry took over and had been widely expected to leave following his dismissal.

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