Hridayeshwar Jha

Hridayeshwar Jha is a highly energetic leader with overall career experience of 40 years in steel making in almost all functions of a large steel plant including operations, maintenance, engineering, green-field & brown-field projects, marketing & sales, TQM, mining, safety etc.

Mr Jha is an Electrical Engineer from IIT, BHU & has pursued his PGDBM (Gold Medalist) from XLRI, Jamshedpur. He has also done M.Sc (Power Electronics) from NIT Jamshedpur & Executive Education programs from institutes like CEDEP - INSEAD, France & IMD, Switzerland.

He has served on the Boards of several Tata Steel Companies including NatSteel Singapore, Tata Steel Thailand, TMILL, ISWP - Chairman, RAWMET (T S Alloys), Tata Steel Asia Limited and Tata Refractory Ltd.

Prior to joining, he led transformational changes and breakthrough improvements in Liberty Steel Newport as Director Projects. Mr Jha is an avid reader and has a keen eye in identifying and reducing different bottlenecks across the steel value chain.