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Focused on Automotive & Mobility
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Worldwide footprint with Direct presence in Germany, Americas, Japan, India, Korea, China
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Only embedded software company with deep domain expertise across CASE (Connected, Autonomous, Shared, Electrified) domains
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Key Strategic clients and alliances in the Mobility ecosystem
KPIT is a leading independent software development and integration partner helping mobility leapfrog towards a clean, smart, and safe future. With 7000 automobelievers across the globe specializing in embedded software, AI, and digital solutions, KPIT accelerates clients’ implementation of next-generation technologies for the future mobility roadmap. With engineering centers in Europe, the USA, Japan, China, Thailand, and India, KPIT works with leaders in automotive and mobility and is present where the ecosystem is transforming.
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Ravi Pandit
Co-founder, Chairman
Ravi Pandit is the Co-founder and Chairman of KPIT Technologies Ltd. His vision as the founder of KPIT has steered the Company toward achieving leadership position as product engineering and IT consulting solutions and services provider, to three industries namely automotive & transportation, manufacturing and energy & utilities. He has been instrumental in shaping KPIT’s vertical focus strategy and building a unique partnership model based on the tenets of innovation and sustainable development.
Having run a Chartered Accountancy firm for close to a decade after finishing his master’s studies, Ravi decided to venture into Information Technology consulting and services, thus setting up KPIT, with his co-founder, in 1990.
Over the last 20+ years, KPIT, under Ravi’s leadership, has combined its deep industry & technology expertise, presence in relevant geographies and highly scalable delivery infrastructure to enable clients expand their product development footprint, enhance operational efficiencies and optimize processes.
Widely respected for integrity, innovation and dynamism, Ravi has successfully established and grown partnerships with customers, partners and industry bodies, setting benchmarks in corporate governance, regional cooperation and co-innovation. For his commitment to conducting business in an ethical manner and for the value KPIT partnership has brought to Cummins, Ravi was honored with the J Irwin Miller Award of Excellence by Cummins. He has been awarded the prestigious Rotary Excellence Award for exemplary leadership and outstanding performance. Ravi has also been honored with the Maharashtra Corporate Excellence (MAXELL) Awards for Excellence in Entrepreneurship and for his contribution to the economic and industrial development of Pune City; he has also been conferred with the prestigious Samata Award.
Ravi has deep interest in social issues and is a founder trustee of Janwani, a NGO which is focused on improvements in urban India, and he is a founder trustee of the Pune International Centre, a National level think tank working on policy issues. He is a member of the board of management of Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan (a charitable public trust) and is a director of the Aga Khan Rural Support Program (India). He also serves on the board of Finolex Cables Ltd.
Ravi was a member of the Core-Group on Automotive Research Program Committee (CAR) a Government of India initiative for automotive industry and was on the Technology Development Board formed by the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India. He has served as the president of the esteemed Mahratta Chamber of Commerce, Industries and Agriculture and has been on the NASSCOM Executive Council twice.
Ravi is a gold medalist and fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, an associate member of the Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India, and holds masters from Sloan School of Management, MIT, Cambridge, USA. In 2014, the prestigious Tilak Maharashtra University decorated him with an honorary D.Litt.
Always a topper in college and universities, he is a voracious reader, an avid trekker and enjoys listening to classical music.
Kishor Patil
Co-founder, CEO & MD
Kishor Patil is the Co-founder, Managing Director and CEO of KPIT – a leading IT consulting and product engineering partner to automotive & transportation, manufacturing and energy & utilities corporations. Kishor co-founded KPIT in 1990. Under his leadership, the company has grown over 50 times in revenues in the last 12+ years to reach around USD 500 million (INR 3000 crores).
His vision is integral in maintaining KPIT’s leadership in its key focus verticals and in making it one of the world’s largest and most recognized technology, services, and business solutions provider globally. He has set a high standard of excellence in the areas of running high growth international operations, effecting successful mergers & acquisitions and executing profitable integration. His exceptional people skills and sincerity have been instrumental in building an innovative enterprise.
He is passionate about applying technology to solve business challenges and address larger problems of the society. He is personally active in driving development and proliferation of innovative solutions in the areas of transportation and clean energy. Under his leadership, KPIT has filed more than 50 patents, has developed over 100 IPs in cutting-edge technology in its focus areas, and has won several national and international awards including the Wall Street Journal technology Innovation Award, and Knowledge@Wharton Technovation Award.
In 2014 Kishor was honored with the CA Business Leader Award – Corporate award, by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI). The ICAI Awards felicitate chartered accountants who create value for their company’s stakeholders on a sustainable basis. For his excellence in entrepreneurship, he has also been honored with the Maharashtra Corporate Excellence (MAXELL) Awards 2014. In 2013, Kishor was named among the top 16 entrepreneurs in India by Ernst and Young in its Entrepreneur of the Year award program. He was recognized among the Top 50 CEOs of 2013 by The Entrepreneur Magazine, and was also awarded the 2013 Rotary Excellence Award. He is a prolific speaker and has presented at various national & international forums including the World Economic Forum, on topics such as Entrepreneurship, Innovation, building high performance organizations, and business transformation.
Kishor is a fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, and a member of the Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India.
A man of many talents, Kishor has also produced a state-of-the-art internationally acclaimed animation movie, Delhi Safari, on the theme of conservation of animal habitat. He was awarded the prestigious Golden Lotus National Award by the honorable President of India.
Sachin Tikekar
President & Board Member
Sachin is the Co-Founder and President of KPIT. He has been with the company since the beginning, and has lead and guided the company in different areas. In his current role, Sachin is responsible for growing & nurturing strategic relationships with customers and partners.
Sachin has served the company in a number of capacities. He has been the Executive Sponsor for Europe. He was the Chief People & Operations Officer with responsibility for imbibing KPIT culture in the organization, accelerating learning opportunities for employees globally and fostering innovation in attracting, nurturing and retaining talent. He was also the Chief Operating Officer for KPIT in the US. He established the company’s now deeply rooted presence in the US.
Over the years, he has spearheaded the successful integration of acquired entities within KPIT. Before joining KPIT, Sachin worked with US Sprint and Strategic Positioning Group.
He attended Temple University for Masters in Strategic Management and International Finance. As an ardent food lover, he dubs himself as Anthony Bourdain 2.0! Sachin is a member of the World Wildlife Federation and pursues his fascination with wildlife and nature through traveling.
Anant Talaulicar
Chairman- Nomination & Remuneration Committee, CSR Committee
Mr. Anant Talaulicar holds a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Mysore University, a master’s degree from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and a MBA degree from Tulane University, USA. He was the Chairman and Managing Director of the Cummins Group in India from March 2004 through October 2017, was a member of the Cummins Inc. global leadership team from August 2009 till October 2017 and the President of the Cummins Inc. Components Group from 2010 through 2014. He has also served as the Managing Director of Tata Cummins Private Limited, a 50:50 joint venture between Cummins Inc. and Tata Motors Limited. He has chaired the boards of four other Cummins legal entities in India as well.
He worked as a financial analyst, manufacturing engineer, project manager, product manager, strategy manager before taking various general management positions. Since 2004, he has also led the Cummins India Foundation which has implemented sustainable community initiatives such as model villages and higher education. He has served as a member of the Confederation of Indian Industries, Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers and Automobile Components Manufacturers Association in the past.
Mr. Talaulicar is now on the board of seven companies in India, teaches on the subject of leadership part time at the S P Jain Institute of Management & Research and sponsors the Usha Jaivant Foundation that funds financially disadvantaged rural students through college along with providing them with life effectiveness skills.
B V R Subbu
Chairman- Stakeholders Relationship Committee
Mr. B V R Subbu is an automotive industry expert and a widely-acknowledged thought leader. He holds a post-graduate degree in Economics from Jawaharlal Nehru University and a post-graduate diploma from the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade. He was formerly the President of Hyundai Motors India. In his early career he was extensively involved with Tata Motors holding various responsibilities in Tata Motors’ Commercial Vehicles and Multi Utility Vehicles businesses.
Prof. Alberto Vincentelli
Board Member
Prof. Alberto Sangiovanni Vincentelli is the Buttner Chair at the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley. He is a Co-founder of Cadence and Synopsys, the two leading companies in the area of Electronic Design Automation. Prof. Alberto is a member of the Board of Directors of Cadence. He was a member of the HP Strategic Technology Advisory Board, of the ST Microelectronics Advisory Board and of the Science and Technology Advisory Board of General Motors as well as a member of the Technology Advisory Council of United Technologies Corporation.
He served as the Chairperson of the Strategy Committee of the Italian Strategic Fund, and as the Chairperson of the National Committee of Research Trustees for the Italian Ministry of University, Education and Scientific Research. He is the Chairperson of four High Tech Startup in UK, Netherlands and Italy. He consulted for several companies such as Intel, IBM, ATT, General Electric, BMW, Mercedes, Magneti Marelli, GM, Fujitsu, Kawasaki Steel, Pirelli and Telecom Italia.
Nickhil Jakatdar
Board of Directors
Dr. Nickhil Jakatdar is currently the CEO of GenePath Diagnostics, a molecular diagnostics company. Prior to that he was the CEO and co-founder of Vuclip, a global leader in the Video-on-Demand space. Previously, he founded and ran various startups, such as Timbre Technologies (acquired by Tokyo Electron), Command CAD (acquired by Cadence Design Systems) and Praesagus (acquired by Cadence Design Systems).
He is also the founding member of the Bhau Institute of Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Leadership in Pune and is an investor and advisor to Campfire Labs (acquired by Groupon), flutter.io (acquired by Google), Bash Gaming (acquired by GSN), Shoptimize, PayActiv, Viewics (acquired by Roche), Jombay, Mezi (acquired by American Express), Zeni.ai, Climate.ai, Genies, Matician, and the US second division soccer team, Oakland Roots, among others.
He has been the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from College of Engineering, Pune, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers‘ (IEEE) Best Paper Award in Transactions on Semiconductor Manufacturing and the Berkeley Distinguished Pioneer Award. He has to his credit more than 20 conference papers and more than 60 issued patents.
He holds a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the College of Engineering, Pune and a master’s degree and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley.
Ajay Bhagwat
KPIT Subsidiary Board Member
Mr. Ajay Bhagwat is the Founder and Managing Director of Renu Electronics, headquartered in Pune and having sales offices in US, Europe and Singapore. The company was one of the first in the country to be in the Global ‘products’ business and has been a leader in the industry. Under his leadership, Renu Electronics was adjudged as the best company in Electronics, in the State of Maharashtra, several times.
Mr. Bhagwat has also been a founder of several other companies and has served as a Director on the boards of various companies including KPIT Information Technology Ltd., Cummins Information Technology Ltd., Electronica Mechatronics Ltd., Prizm Electronics Inc., LR Med Inc., and many others.
Over the years, Mr. Bhagwat has been conferred the ‘Entrepreneur of the Year’ Award by various organizations including “Excellence in Entrepreneurship Award” by Entrepreneurs International in 2013.
Bhavna Doshi
Additional & Independent Director
Bhavna Doshi, a founding partner of Bhavna Doshi Associates LLP, a boutique tax, accounting and regulatory advisory firm, is former partner of KPMG member firm in India. With specialization in the fields of taxation and corporate restructuring, she has been providing advisory services to national and multi-national entities for over 30 years. She is a Chartered Accountant and holds Master’s degree in Commerce from University of Mumbai.
She serves as independent director on Boards of several listed companies.
She was elected to the Council of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) for four terms of three years each. ICAI is body established for development and regulation of profession of accountancy in India. She has chaired Accounting Standards Board (which sets accounting standards), Research, Vision 2021 and other Committees of ICAI. She was also member of a group supporting Tax Administration Reform Commission chaired by Dr Parthsarathy Shome.
She has served as a member of the Government Accounting Standards Advisory Board set up by the Controller and Auditor General of India. She was a Member of Compliance Advisory Panel of International Federation of Accountants, headquartered in New York.
Bhavna was President of the Indian Merchants’ Chamber and is actively associated with its activities. She, during her Presidentship, established “IMC Inclusive Innovation Awards” to recognize work of the grass root innovators which meet the criteria of “affordable excellence”. She is currently member of CII Corporate Governance Committee and Member of Managing Committee of ASSOCHAM.
She is a Board Member of ICAI Accounting Research Foundation and also of Atal Innovation Centre, NMIMS. She serves as member of Board of Studies of Narsee Monjee College of Commerce and Economics (Autonomous).
She is a regular faculty at programs organized by professional institutes and business chambers, contributes articles and also delivers lectures abroad.
Woman and child empowerment are very close to her heart and she takes out time for social activities.
She has travelled extensively within and outside of India.
Prof. Rajiv Lal
Additional & Independent Director
Prof. Rajiv Lal is the Stanley Roth, Sr. Professor of Retailing at Harvard Business School. He is currently teaching the core Marketing course in the MBA program. Prior to this assignment, he developed and taught an elective MBA course on the Business of Smart Connected Products/IOT. He has been responsible for the retailing curriculum and has served as the course head for Marketing, required study in the first year of the MBA program. Prof. Lal also teaches in several Executive Education programs, has previously served as the Faculty Chair for the General Management Program, and the program on Building and Leading a Customer Centric Organization.
Prof. Lal was a Professor at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University beginning in 1982. He was the Thomas Henry Carroll Ford Foundation Visiting Professor at Harvard Business School from 1997-98. He was the Visiting Professor of Marketing at INSEAD, France in 1986, 1988, 1992, and 1993. He did his undergraduate work in Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur, India and received his Ph.D. in Industrial Administration from Carnegie-Mellon University.
Prof. Lal’s current research concerns the opportunities and challenges in building a Business around Smart Connected products/IOT. Working with a large number of companies, his work explores why IOT remains an unfulfilled promise and attributes most of the reasons to the unique difficulties in adoption and monetization of businesses where data is the key ingredient.
His book “Retail Revolution: Will Your Store Survive” is based on many years of extensive field research focusing on the viability of brick and mortar stores facing the onslaught of on-line competition. His past work has explored successful retail strategies for global expansion and has written extensively on the impact of using the Internet as a channel of distribution on a retailer’s pricing, merchandising, and branding strategy. His earlier work in retailing studies the impact of competition between different retail formats, such as EDLP and Hi-Lo grocers. He has also studied the consequences of grocery retailers’ increasing use of store brands on store loyalty and its implications for packaged goods manufacturers. In addition, he has studied how to build and sustain customer-centric retail organizations.
Prof. Lal’s earlier research focused on pricing, trade promotions, and salesforce compensation plans. The work on salesforce compensation plans originated with his dissertation research, which won the award for the best paper published in Marketing Science and Management Science in 1985. A subsequent article, also developed from his thesis, received an honorable mention for the same award in 1986. He has also studied compensation plans used by German salesforces.
His work in the area of pricing and promotions has been equally well recognized. Two of his articles were among the finalists for the John D. C. Little award for the best paper published in Management Science and Marketing Science in 1990. One of these articles, co-authored with Jagmohan Raju and V. Srinivasan on the impact of brand loyalty on price promotions, has been awarded the Frank Bass award for the best dissertation paper.
Prof. Lal’s published work includes Retail Revolution: Will Your Brick-and-Mortar Store Survive?, “Retail Doesn’t Cross Borders: Here’s Why and What to do About it” in Harvard Business Review, “Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink” in HBS Working Knowledge, and Marketing Management: Text and Cases. He has published more than twenty-five articles in academic journals and more than 80 cases and other teaching materials. He has applied his academic frameworks and industry knowledge in much of his research and many of his consulting projects.
Prof. Lal has worked on a variety of such projects with a wide range of companies, including Citigroup, Citizens Bank, American Family Insurance, Philips, GE, PTC, John Deere, Standard Life Plc, Credit Suisse, Stop & Shop, Ito-Yokado, Best Buy, Stride Rite Corporation, Oliver Wyman and Company, Fleming Companies, Nordstrom, Microsoft, Kellogg, Sara Lee D/E, Novartis Pharmaceuticals, Callaway Golf Company, Staples, and other well-known companies on strategy development and execution.
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Pankaj Sathe
Member of Executive Board and President - Europe
Pankaj Sathe is currently a Member of the Executive Board and President – Europe in KPIT. In this role he is responsible for executive connect with key customers, sales, onsite operations, people development and the branding and positioning of the organization as a key technology expert within KPIT’s focused industry verticals. His key impact areas include staging and winning large deals that are strategic in nature, managing alliances and partners, and integrating acquisitions.
Pankaj has over 25 years of in-depth experience in establishing sales, marketing and operations in new geographies, integrating acquired companies, partnering with customers and developing value-generating propositions for them. He has participated in the growth of the company globally and been instrumental in KPIT’s growth in Europe, where he successfully established local presence and expanded business organically as well as inorganically.
In KPIT, the first role that Pankaj focused on was to establish marketing of software services. He initiated the process of marketing planning in the organization, including corporate-level messaging into key customer accounts, branding and industry events. Pankaj led the global sales function of KPIT for several years and also moved onto play other key roles in KPIT over time including leading globally the HR and Operations based out of the India location.
Pankaj is an Electronics & Telecommunications engineer from the Delhi College of Engineering, India and holds a Master’s in Business Administration from IIM, Lucknow, India. Pankaj began his career in sales and marketing in 1991 with the Godrej Group, India as Product Manager for new business areas and was responsible for their successful diversification into medical diagnostics. He later worked with companies like HCL and Ranbaxy in the areas of electronic CAD design, commercial, sales, marketing, product management and business management. He has been a member of the IEEE and supports the IIM Alumni Association, Europe. A people person, Pankaj has keen interest in understanding individuals and has mastered the art of personalizing experiences. When not at work, Pankaj enjoys studying war history, analyzing industry shifts and traveling.
Rajeeb Nath
Member of Executive Board & Geo head, Americas
Rajeeb Nath is a Member of Executive Board and Head of Geography (Americas) at KPIT. Along with P&L management, he has responsibility for strategy, sales and delivery of KPIT’s products and services to automotive clients around the globe. With over 25 years of global automotive industry leadership experience, he brings a strong ability to leverage technology in a rapidly changing environment, Rajeeb has an aptitude to blend his global business experience with his extensive automotive systems and product knowledge to create sustainable value through innovative technical and business solutions.
Prior to joining KPIT, Rajeeb was Global Vice President, ADAS, Magna Electronics, managing the P&L and leading the group to an industry leading position by bringing to market state of the art autonomous vehicle solutions. Prior to Magna, Rajeeb held various leadership positions in engineering, strategic planning and manufacturing operations at Visteon Corporation and Ford Motor Company. In addition to ADAS, Rajeeb has extensive experience in Powertrain and Body Electronics, and Driver Information.
Rajeeb graduated from Stanford University with a M.S. in Engineering Management and from the University of Illinois with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering. He is also a certified Six Sigma Black Belt. He resides in Northville, Michigan with his wife and two sons.
Rohan Sohoni
Geo Head, Asia
Fluent in Japanese and having been in the region for over two decades, Rohan has been instrumental in establishing our presence in Asia across JKC (Japan, Korea and China) and SEANZ (South East Asia, Australia and New Zealand) since 2005. With sharp focus, strong positioning, and meticulous planning, he has built a highly profitable Asia business with a coveted list of strategic client relationships for KPIT. He has also taken the Cross-Geo collaboration to the next level, creating a truly global Account Management model. Managing Executive relationships and conceptualizing large, complex global deals has always been one of his strong attributes. Always keen to share knowledge, he has been a great coach and a role model for many.
Rohan comes with an engineering degree in Computers. His executive education includes leadership excellence programs such as the GRLP (Global Resilient Leadership Program) conducted by the Nissan Foundation with Waseda & Wharton Business school as well as the KPIT “Elevate” at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, USA.
In his private time, Rohan likes to enjoy a round of Golf whenever possible, try out new cuisines and spend quality time with family. He lives in Tokyo with his wife Pratiksha and son Rituraj.
Jens Tillner
MD KPIT Gmbh and Business Head, Germany
Jens has joined us from August 1, 2020 in Munich as the Managing Director of KPIT Technologies GmbH and the overall Business Head for Germany (including the Nordics and MicroFuzzy).
Jens holds a master’s degree in electronic engineering from the University of Applied Science in Hamburg. He has a solid background of 20+ years in the automotive industry.
Throughout his career he has worked for leading technology companies, starting with Motorola, Harman’s Connected Car Division and most recently with Visteon, where he was in charge of their German Customer Business focused on Intelligent Cockpit applications and also Autonomous Driving applications and hardware.
With Jens we will strengthen our German footprint through a senior level German presence and develop our Germany business to the next level.
Tony Gu
Country Head, China
Tony Gu is Associate Vice President of KPIT and Operations Director of KPIT China, He has been with KPIT for over 8+ years, since the inception of KPIT China office.
Tony GU has lead and guided China market in different areas, covering Automobile, SAP and Oracle services and deliveries at the early years, and now taking on additional responsibilities in business development in China market from April 2020.
His skills include years of working experience in IT industry, extensive international working experience. In his previous career, he served international companies like IBM, Mitsubishi, NEC etc. He has a profound IT knowledge, project management, people management and finance management experience.
He attended Shanghai Jiao Tong University for Master and Bachelor of Science.
In his private time, He loves swimming, table tennis and golf whenever possible. He also loves music and movies. He currently lives in Shanghai, China with his wife and son.
Rajesh Janwadkar
Member of Executive Board, Head Passenger Cars Vertical
Rajesh Janwadkar is Executive Vice President and is responsible for Business Growth, Key Practices Leadership and Global Delivery.
Rajesh has served as a core member of the team at KPIT and has contributed to both the development and execution of the Automotive Business strategy. This includes a unique approach to building Practices where Rajesh was instrumental in the aggressive growth of the Automotive Product Engineering business. With over 22 years of experience at KPIT, Rajesh has played various leadership roles including Head of Marketing & Strategy for Automotive Business, Business Leader for Powertrain Practice, and Head of Delivery & Practices for Automotive Product Engineering.
Prior to joining KPIT Rajesh was leading the Product Business and Sales at other IT organizations. He is an alumni of Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur, India.
Chinmay Pandit
Member of Executive Board, Head Commercial Vehicles Vertical
Chinmay Pandit is Executive Vice President and is responsible for driving growth as well as the company’s investments for the Commercial Vehicles vertical. He is responsible for all client engagements in the Commercial Vehicles Vertical. Chinmay brings cross geography and multi-domain experience to accelerate strategic advancement for all clients within the vertical and further foster transformational growth for the company.
He also leads Vehicle Engineering & Design practice/business line of the company. The Vehicle Engineering & Design practice in KPIT offers new-age mechanical engineering services of design and simulation enhanced by technologies such as artificial intelligence, automation, digital twins and augmented/virtual reality. Vehicle Engineering & Design also bring in KPIT’s cross-practice expertise of software and feature development to offer mechanical and software integrated systems for the autonomous driving, infotainment, and electric & conventional powertrain domains to global clients across the passenger vehicle, commercial vehicle and new mobility segment. Balancing profitability with long-term sustainability continues to be Chinmay’s choice of focus, for this practice/business line.
Prior to this role, he was responsible for the Alternate Powertrain Products, the green products initiative of KPIT. As a technology company, KPIT designed and developed various xEV powertrain solutions primarily oriented for the mass market. He led the effort of bringing India’s first, indigenous smart electric bus to market. The hon’ble Prime Minister of India, Shri Narendra Modi inaugurated the same at the Indian Parliament in 2015.
He has rich experience of 15+ years. His assignments, before KPIT, include working with KPMG and Infosys. Starting his career as a Chartered Accountant in enterprise technologies, he brings a blended background in finance and technology. He is also a business graduate from J. L. Kellogg School of Business at the Northwestern University, USA.
Having worked in US and India, Chinmay currently operates out of KPIT’s Pune office.
Chinmay is avid trekker having scaled peaks in India, US of A, Africa and Japan. Along with Mobility, he is passionate about touching lives through seemingly simple yet impactful community contributions.
Pushpahas Joshi
Member of Executive Board and Head of New Mobility Vertical
Pushpahas is the business leader for New Mobility as an industry vertical and Connected Products & Solutions as a business unit.
He has been working with KPIT since last 16 years across various corporate functions like Strategy, Marketing, Acquisitions & Divestitures as well business leadership roles in Infotainment, Digital Connected Solutions, Vehicle Diagnostics & Telematics and in markets like China and Germany.
Pushpahas is a graduate engineer from Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur, India
Anup Sable
Member of Executive Board & Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
Anup is a Member of the executive board and CTO for KPIT. In this role, his keen sense for blending technology trends and customer challenges helps KPIT to formulate a range of solutions and products which bring value to the global automotive ecosystem.
Anup has been associated with KPIT since 1994. Over the years, Anup has been instrumental in KPIT’s growth and recognition as a global product engineering partner to the automotive industry.
Anup, in the past, has held a position on the Board of Directors of GENIVI® Alliance, contributing towards driving open innovation and collaboration in the automotive industry. He was also a part of the NASSCOM® engineering council, where he supported the council’s vision of making more and more companies in India achieve the ‘Engineered in India’ dream. He has additionally carried out board responsibilities for KPIT GmbH Germany.
Anup has lead the global team that made innovative solutions and products for the automotive industry, which include Electrification of vehicles, Digital Cockpit, Autonomous driving, AutoSAR and Diagnostics.
Anup began his career at the Automotive Research Association of India (ARAI) as a research assistant in the Powertrain domain. A co-inventor of 4 patents in the areas of electric vehicle technology and automotive safety, he continues to remain involved in his passion for technologies in addition to his executive role of driving KPIT’s global business.
Priya Hardikar
Sr. VP - Head Corporate Finance & Governance
Priyamvada Hardikar (Priya) is the Sr. VP – Head Corporate Finance & Governance at KPIT.
Priya completed graduation in Commerce from Pune University as rank holder and qualified as Cost Accountant with very high rank at all India level.
She has been with us in leadership position in Corporate Accounting and Finance (CF&G) for more than 12 years. A highly result oriented and energetic leader with proven capability, she has played an instrumental role in setting up the best practices in the CF&G function as well in compliances.
She was also awarded as the “The Best Woman in Finance” at the CFO Executive Leadership Summit 2018.
She has participated in leadership excellence workshop and “Elevate” Program at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, USA.
In her private time, she likes to cook and watch movies in leisure time. She lives in Pune with her husband Manoj Hardikar and son Tarang Hardikar.
Shirish Patwardhan
Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
Shirish is the Co-founder and Senior Vice President at KPIT. He is a Student of a school in Pune for gifted children, Jnana Prabodhini. He graduated from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in Electrical Engineering and followed up with a Masters degree in Control Engineering from IITB in 1985. He worked for TCS out of the campus, then joined Kirtane Pandit, CA firm and later co-founded KPIT Technology in 1991.
Has played various roles within KPIT over the years that involve customer facing, project delivery, as a CIO and later mainly related to technology, as the CTO. Has been a founder member of the CIO Klub, a group of business professionals playing CIO/CTO role in various organizations in India. Has worked in creating variety of technology offerings and driving innovation projects. Currently working with CTO and Business teams with emerging technologies to create offerings for the Automotive market.
He is passionate about technology, architecture, music, trekking and nature. He is a musician, performs in live shows.
Rajesh Singh
Global Head, HR
As a Head of Human Resources in KPIT, Rajesh is passionate about designing and executing interventions to attract, retain and develop talent as a part of our mission of being the Best Place to Grow. He has an aspiration to build highly effective leaders and teams aligned with global benchmarks of excellence through rigorous developmental interventions. Rajesh has explored a variety of roles in a professional life of more than 20 years spanning Public sector, Government, Private Sector and Startup. He began his career with State Bank of India as Probationary officer and then moved to Government of India through Civil Services in 2001. During 7-year stint in Government, he also completed Post Graduation from National University of Singapore on Lee Kuan Yew Scholarship. After resigning from Government service, Rajesh completed Masters in Business Administration from IIM Calcutta. He has worked in renowned organizations such as Infosys, Novartis and Alkem in leadership roles. He had a brief entrepreneurial stint as Cofounder of OLITO before joining KPIT. Along with KPIT HR team, he has won award from World HRD Congress for transformative impact on retention.
Rajesh has a wide range of interests such as travelling, cooking, watching movies, debates, standup comedy, blogging and investing. He is also passionate about contributing to community through mentoring and effective use of Right to Information. In his leisure time, he also enjoys taking a nap. He lives in Pune with his wife Riddhi and son Shreyash who is passionate about coding.
Mohit Kochar
Global Head, Marketing & Communications
Mohit heads Global Marketing and Communications at KPIT. In his current role, Mohit spends a lot of time understanding Automotive & Transportation market trends, needs and how to use Technology and build relevant products & solutions. He is responsible for building KPIT’s brand & thought leadership in the Automotive Industry.
He engages with multiple stakeholders from the ecosystem including global OEM’s, Tier 1’s, regulatory and technical standardization bodies, transport operators & city authorities focused on creating and deploying smart and sustainable transportation.
An engineering graduate with Masters in Business Administration, Mohit holds 17+ years of experience in Automotive, Engineering, Information Technology industries, across key functions like Strategy, Product Development and Management, Marketing, Branding and Corporate Communication, Business Development and Corporate Affairs.
In his last role with Bosch in India, Mohit was responsible for adoption and market penetration of Safety Products like ABS (Antilock Braking System), ESP (Electronics Stability Program) and air bags amongst key stakeholders in ecosystem like OEM’s, Government, and end users.
KPIT Technologies GMBH is a subsidiary of KPIT Technologies in Europe.
KPIT GMBH is headquartered in Munich, Germany and strategically setup to drive new technologies, innovation from Germany.
KPIT Technologies Inc. (US subsidiary of KPIT Technologies Ltd, Headquartered in Novi, Michigan) is a company specialized into six areas of automotive technologies: Autonomous Driving, Conventional and Electric Powertrain, Connected Vehicles, Vehicle Diagnostics, AUTOSAR and Mechatronics.
The only company with a sharp focus on Automotive Engineering segment through a combination of IP and Services offerings, engaged on large global programs with leading OEM, T1 and Semiconductor companies, invites you to be a part of some of the best, cutting edge technologies within AD/ADAS, Powertrain, AUTOSAR and Connected Vehicles.
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KPIT is a leading independent software development and integration partner helping mobility leapfrog towards a clean, smart, and safe future. With 7000 automobelievers across the globe specializing in embedded software, AI, and digital solutions, KPIT accelerates clients’ implementation of next-generation technologies for the future mobility roadmap. With engineering centers in Europe, the USA, Japan, China, Thailand, and India, KPIT works with leaders in automotive and mobility and is present where the ecosystem is transforming.
For more details visit www.KPIT.com
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