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  • Mr. Sandip Ghose Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer

    Mr. Sandip Ghose is a Business Leader and General Management professional with multi-disciplinary skill sets. He has nearly four decades of experience and held a variety of senior leadership positions in industries, ranging from Consumer Goods (FMCG), Media and Cement, across India and Nepal. He qualified as a Chartered Accountant and Professional Coach accredited by the International Coach Federation.

    A prolific commentator on current affairs, he is an invited columnist in several print and on-line publications and guest on leading TV News and Business channels. He is a strong believer in the India growth story and passionate about mentoring and developing leaders for the future.

  • Mr. Pracheta Majumdar Chief Management Advisor

    Mr Majumdar, former Managing Director of CEAT Tyres Ltd., is a Mechanical Engineer. A Management Advisor by profession, he has served in very senior management positions in diverse fields with large corporates and MNCs. He has worked in the areas of design and project management of chemicals, petrochemical and fertilizer plants. He has worked with Hindustan Unilever Limited for about 12 years. Shri Majumdar attended various international management courses organized by Unilever and Executive Development Programmes and Advanced Management Programmes conducted by Stanford University and Harvard Business School.

  • Mr. Aditya Saraogi Chief Financial Officer

    Mr. Saraogi is a Chartered Accountant. Prior to joining BCL, he was with the Indian associate firms of Ernst & Young and BDO. He served several large clients, including ITC, Bharti Airtel, Lafarge India, Peerless, iGate and Reliance Communications.

  • Mr. Rajat Kumar Prusty Chief of Manufacturing & Projects

    Mr. Prusty, BE (Mining Engineering), has more than three decades of manufacturing experience in the cement industry. Starting as a Management Trainee in ACC he had risen to become the Chief Project Officer (O & M) of the Company. Earlier, he was the Chief Manufacturing Officer of ACC. He is an expert in turnaround strategy in difficult environments.

  • Mr. Kalidas Pramanik President, Sales & Logistics Operations

    Mr Pramanik, an MBA and Physics graduate, has close to three decades of experience in sales, marketing & logistics. He was Executive Vice-President, Sales & Marketing, Coromandel International Limited. Starting his career with Union Carbide India Limited, he worked with ACC Limited (Holcim Group) for nearly two decades and left the Company as Director, Sales and Marketing.

  • Mr. Rajesh KakkarPresident-Head Corporate HR

    Mr. Kakkar has more than three decades of experience in the cement industry. He is BE, Electrical & Electronics Engineering, and is a BEE-certified energy auditor. His range of experience includes project planning and execution of thermal power plant, waste heat recovery power plant and solar power plant projects.

  • Mr. Sunil SoodPresident
    Satna Cement Works, Vindhyachal Steel Foundry

    Mr. Sood has more than three decades of experience in the cement industry. He had served Holcim, Lafarge and Reliance Cement in managerial positions. His experience includes project execution and maintenance.

  • Mr. Devesh Kumar Mishra President
    Birla Cement Works, Chanderia Cement Works

    Mr. Mishra, with more than three decades of experience in the cement industry, had stints with ACC, Mysore Cement, Vasavadatta Cement and Chettinad Cement, in senior positions. He did his Mechanical Engineering at NIT, Jamshedpur.

  • Mr. Prahlad Kr Choudhary President
    Maihar Unit

    Mr Choudhary is B.E. (Mechanical) and has nearly three decades of experience in the cement industry. Apart from mechanical maintenance of cement plants, his range of experience includes project planning and execution of grinding units.

  • Mr. Jayant Kandpal Vice President
    Mukutban Unit

    Mr Kandpal, BE Mech. (Hons.), has more than three decades of experience in the cement industry. He has served Siddhe Cement, DLF Cement, Ambuja Cement and Reliance Cement. He is experienced in commissioning and operation of cement plants (integrated & grinding units).

  • Mr. Devendra Kumar Patel Vice President
    Kundanganj

    Mr Patel, BE (Chemical), M.Tech (Manufacturing Management) & MBA (IIM, Kozhikode), has more than 25 years of experience in the cement industry, serving in Sanghi Cement, Binani Cement, ACC Ltd., J.K. Cement Ltd. & Ambuja Cements. He joined Chanderia Cement Works in 2022 & was transferred to the RCCPL-Kundanganj Unit in 2023. He is experienced in brownfield cement projects as well as commissioning and operations of integrated cement plants.

  • Mr. Rajeev Bhalla Joint President
    Durgapur Cement Works, Durga Hitech Cement.

    Mr. Rajeev Bhalla is a mechanical engineer, graduating from MITS, Gwalior. He started his career in 1983 with Birla Corporation Limited's Satna Cement Works. After about 33 years, he was transferred to the Chanderia Cement Works as technical head. Before the present assignment, he was the Unit Head at Raebareli Cement Works, since November 2020.

  • Mr. Biplab Bose Assistant Vice President
    Raebareli

    Mr Bose is a Mechanical Engineer, passing out from Jalpaiguri Govt. Engineering College, and has experience of three decades. He served Midsea Marine Corporation Ltd (under Garden Reach Ship Builders, Kolkata), Birla Technical Services and Durgapur Cement Works. His range of experience includes project planning & execution and preventive & predictive maintenance of cement plants.

  • Mr. Balmukund Tiwari Senior General Manager
    Butibori Unit

    Mr. Tiwari has nearly three decades of experience in the cement industry and had worked in Maihar Cement, ACC, Dalmia Cement, JP Cement & Shree Cement. He joined Satna Cement Works in 2016 and was transferred to the RCCPL Butibori unit in 2018. Skilled in cement manufacturing, R&D activities, operations & administration, he holds a PG degree from RDVV Jabalpur and PGDEIA diploma.

  • Mr. G R VermaPresident
    Birla Jute Mills

    Mr. G R Verma, Chartered Accountant, with more than a decade's exposure in the jute industry, has professional experience of more than 19 years in diverse industrial fields. He was with Naihati Jute Mills Co Ltd earlier.

  • Mr. Manoj Kumar Mehta Company Secretary, Senior Jt. President & Legal Head

    Mr. Manoj Kumar Mehta is a Chartered Accountant & Company Secretary by qualification, having more than 28 years of post-qualification experience in diversified industries in the fields of Secretarial, Legal, Taxation, Accounts & Finance and general compliance. He has been in senior leadership positions at the MP Birla Group Companies since 2006.

June 2022