Wiring the Structure for Growth

Crompton Greaves is part of the Avantha Group. With a turnover, over Rs. 4200 crores, the company is India's largest private sector enterprise in the business of electrical engineering. The wide range of products that the company offers is canalized through its four business units- These are Power Systems, Industrial Systems, Consumer Products and Telecom Products.

	Board of Directors
	Key Personnel
			Corporate
			Regional Management
			Power Systems
			Industrial Systems
			Consumer Products
			International

Board of Directors

Mr. Gautam Thapar
Chairman & CEO

Gautam Thapar is Chairman & CEO of India's foremost diversified corporation, the Avantha Group. Gautam represents the third generation of a business family, founded by his grandfather, Karam Chand Thapar, in Calcutta (now Kolkata) eighty years ago. Over the decades, the organization has shown resilience and entrepreneurial spirit, and has continuously reinvented itself without wavering from its core values of integrity and creating lasting value for its stakeholders. The strategy followed till today includes acquisitions and exceptional financial structuring to tap opportunities and fuel growth. Though family owned, the organization has always been professionally managed, and lists employee development and leadership training as core to its business success. Gautam, as a widely recognized institution builder, reflects this key focus area in people development, so that the world's finest training is available to the future leaders of the organization.

Gautam began his education at the prestigious Doon School, where he imbibed a liberal education based on the ideals of secularism, discipline and equality. After studying chemical engineering in the U.S.A., he returned to India and started his career as a factory assistant in one of the organization's manufacturing companies. He rose steadily and steered the organization through a strategic and visionary turnaround, involving resilience and restructuring, ensuring that the Group attained dominant status in key operating sectors. Gautam became Group Chairman on 1st July 2006. He sits on the Board of various companies in India and overseas, and is one of India's youngest and brightest global business leaders.

Keen on giving back to society, Gautam takes his social responsibilities very seriously. This is manifested in his involvement across three sectors: education, leadership development and sports. He serves as an active member of the Pratham Education Trust and is the President of Thapar University, one of the top twenty technical schools in India. He is the Vice Chairman of The Aspen Institute India, which aims to internationalize India's business, political and cultural leadership. He also takes an avid interest in promoting the game of golf.

Mr. Sudhir M. Trehan
(Managing Director)

Sudhir Mohan Trehan is the Managing Director of Crompton Greaves Limited since May 2000. Prior to this, he was the President of CG - Digital and looked after the areas of Networking, Informatics and Telecommunications.

Mr. Trehan is an engineering graduate from the renowned Birla Institute of Technology at Ranchi and a gold medallist. Thereafter, he pursued Post Graduate studies (M.S.) at the State University in Stony Brook, NY, USA.

He began his career in the United Kingdom as a Management Trainee with Crompton Parkinson Ltd. at Guisely. In 1972, he joined Crompton Greaves Ltd. in India where he served in various Departments and Divisions like Transformers, Turbines and Switchgear.

He is actively involved in various national industry forums like IEEMA, CII and AIMA - leading names in India. He is currently the Chairman of Maharashtra State Council of CII.

He was the recipient of the ‘Outstanding Chief Executive of the Year’ Award for 2000-2001, instituted by the Indian Institution of Industrial Engineering, for steps he took towards successfully implementing his vision of making Crompton Greaves a world-class manufacturing company.

His leisure time activities include golfing and driving.

 Other Directors

• Mr. S.R. Bayman
• Dr. O. Goswami
• Mr. S. Labroo
• Ms. M. Pudumjee
• Mr. S.P. Talwar
• Dr. Valentin A H von Massow

Key Personnel >> Corporate

Key Personnel >> Regional Management

Key Personnel >> Power Systems

Key Personnel >> Industrial Systems

Key Personnel >> Consumer Products

Key Personnel >> International