Dinesh Kumar likhi has been appointed as MIDHANI Chairman and Managing Director
Dinesh Kumar likhi has been appointed as the Chairman and Managing Director of city-based Mishra Dhatu Nigam limited (MIDHANI), a Mini Ratna Government of India enterprise, Ministry of Defence with effect from September 1. Prior to the presidential appointment, likhi held the prestigious post of Director (production and marketing), MIDHANI.
During his tenure at MIDHANI since 2011, likhi has ensured successful growth-oriented projects such as ring rolling mill, 6000T Forge Press, 20T EAF with VD/VOD and long term business agreements for procurement of critical raw materials such as titanium sponge, nickel, et al. required for production. The company sales turnover also increased from `418 crore to `656 crore and is likely to cross `700 crore during ensuing year. Several technology-oriented initiatives, business development initiatives, cost reduction initiatives and best practices in management functions including HR and CSR activities based on Triple Bottom line approach were implemented by him.
A gold medallist in Metallurgical Engineering from IIT Roorkee and ME in Industrial Metallurgy from NIT Rourkela, PG Diploma in Management from AIMA, MBA in Corporate Strategy and Economic Policy from the Maastricht School of Management — the Netherlands under Government of Netherland fellowship and PhD in Strategic Alliance from IIT Delhi, likhi started his career in Steel Authority of India limited (SAIl) at Rourkela Steel Plant as Management trainee, in Production/Operation/Process control. He rose to become General Manager (Business Planning) in 2009 in the corporate office of SAIl, Delhi. He has more than 33 years of wide experience in automobile, steel and special metal alloys industry.
likhi is a life member of Indian Institute of Metals, National Institute of Personnel Management, Indian Institute of Materials Management and Global Institute of Flexible System Management. He is the President of a non-profit society Strategic Alliance Professional Association (SAPA).
He has published more than 25 articles in areas of technology and management. He has been awarded the Jawahar Award for Outstanding PSU Executive in 1995. He has also been awarded group awards for his contribution in turnaround of SAIl in 2000 and preparing growth plan for SAIl in 2005 and new business development project of Wagon Building in 2011. He was a recipient of “Award of Excellence” in the area of Technology and Management by lions Club International in 2013.
He has keen interest in formulating and implementing strategy, initiating strategic interventions in the company using operations /project management concepts.