Prahalada Rao

Prahalada Rao is the current President & Client Partner of Tata Technologies TML SBU. Prahalada has over two decades of experience in the automotive industry, having previously worked as the Head of Business Planning AFS at Mahindra and Mahindra Limited and as the Managing Director of the Product Planning division at Ssangyong Motor Company.

Rao has been instrumental in developing market-winning concepts that have led to products like Tivoli, Rexton G4, XUV 500, and Compact Truck- Maximo. Prahalada is an expert in customer insight and trend analysis, and has used their skills to help refocus the Personal vehicle Brand to Freedom and Adventure.

-Prahalada Rao attended the Mahindra Universe Program at Harvard Business School for their general business management education.

-Prahalada also completed the Global Senior Leaders Program at NYU Stern School of Business and HBS (Extended) for their 8 company consortium field.

-Prahalada Rao also has an Executive Program in Manufacturing Strategy and SCM from the Indian School of Business.

-Lastly, they have a PGDMM in Operations from SPJIMR SP Jain Institute of Management & Research.

-Prahalada Rao's undergraduate degree is in Mechanical from Bangalore University.

Prahalada Rao reports to Warren Harris, CEO & Managing Director. They are on a team with Sriram Lakshminarayanan - President & CTO, Aloke Palsikar - EVP & Head of Growth Industries, and Nachiket Paranjape - EVP, Sales.