T V Narendran, managing director, Tata Steel India & South East Asia, was elected chairman of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) Eastern Region for the year 2016-17, while Umesh Chowdhary, vice chairman and managing director, Titagarh Group of Companies, became the deputy chairman. Their names were announced at the first meeting of the reconstituted Eastern Regional Council held recently in Kolkata.
Narendran, a mechanical engineer from REC (NIT), Trichy, became the managing director of Tata Steel India and South East Asia on November 1, 2013.
Narendran, who joined Tata Steel after completing MBA at IIM-Calcutta in 1988, is a Chevening Scholar, who also attended the Advanced Management Programme in CEDEP-INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France.
Before being appointed managing director of Tata Steel India and South East Asia, Narendran was the vice president - Safety, flat products & long products divisions of Tata Steel. During his stint in NatSteel, Narendran was a director on the Board of South East Asia Iron & Steel Institute (SEAISI). He served as the president of the ASEAN Iron & Steel Federation (AISIF) from 2007 to 2009, and was also the Vice Chairman of the CII (India Business Forum) in Singapore.