Vinayak K Deshpande

Mr. Vinayak K Deshpande is the Managing Director of Tata Projects since July, 2011. A graduate in Chemical Engineering (1980) from IIT, Kharagpur, he has over 30 years of work experience in different roles, in diverse industries; starting with the design and sales of boilers and captive power plants at Thermax, to industrial automation and process controls.

At Tata Honeywell, of which he was the Managing Director of its India business for five years till 2004-05, he grew the company's operations pan India, to achieve about 300% growth. Thereafter he had a successful stint as the Executive President (Operations) of Tata Teleservices.

Since Mr. Deshpande took charge as Managing Director, the company has achieved all-round excellence in its business of Industrial Infrastructure. In 2014-15, he has been instrumental in diversifying the company's business in 'Urban Infrastructure' and 'Civil Construction', wherein the company has won projects to build Urban Metro systems.