Mr. Vinayak Deshpande, is a graduate in Chemical Engineering (1980) from IIT, Kharagpur. He has over 42 years’ of experience, largely in 2 domains; industrial automation, software, advanced controls and Level 4 MES, Optimisation (Honeywell), and large infrastructure projects spanning Telecom, Power Generation, Refinery & Petrochem, Minerals & Metals, Urban Infrastructure with metros, bridges and airports.
In the last 22 years, he has occupied Chief Executive Officer (CXO) positions starting as Managing Director at Tata Honeywell in 2000, then at Tata Teleservices, HCC and Tata Projects. He possesses deep experience in business management, strategy & new business formulation, investment analysis and implementation of large, nation building projects, and HR and talent development.

He has been extensively engaged in design, engineering & innovation, business process re-engineering, corporate quality and business excellence management and has been a long term member of Tata Innovation forum, TAS recruitment panel, and a Mentor in TBEM (Tata Business Excellence Model), a Tata group wide excellence platform.

Mr. Deshpande presently serves on the Boards of Kennametal India Ltd., Voltas Ltd., Universal MEP Projects & Engineering Services Ltd. and Signify Innovations India Ltd.(Chairman). He is Chairman of Nomination & Remuneration Committee and also a member of Audit & Risk Committee of Kennametal India Ltd. He is Chairman of Safety committee and Member of Project Risk Committee of Voltas Ltd.

He is also Chairman for Structural Engineering Research Council of the CSIR, Government of India. Until recently, he was Co-Chair for CII – Construction committee. He has also served as Chairman, Pune Metro, Line 3, a Tata-Siemens JV in PPP Format.