thyssenKrupp Industrial Solutions India has appointed Rajesh Kamath as its Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director. He succeeds PD Samudra who retires on 30 June 2021.
Earlier, Kamath was the Managing Director of Air Liquide Engineering and Construction in India. He has also held executive positions with Technip India and Aker Solutions.
The official handover was formalized in an online meeting of the company’s key account Customers, Business Associates, and Press on June 23 2021 in the presence of Dr. Sami Pelkonen, CEO of Business Unit Uhde to which the Indian company belongs.
Speaking at the event, Dr. Pelkonen thanked Samudra for his outstanding contributions and said, ‘Your vision, incisiveness, excellent relations fostered with Customers, and untiring zeal in advancing thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions has been exemplary, and along with the Indian teams of past and present times, have helped bring our India operations to reach a position among top-ranking engineering firmaments in India. We wish you the best going forward. We have a worthy successor in Mr. Kamath, whose considerable experience in the EPC business, will surely help to take the success story of India forward.’
Thanking Dr. Pelkonen, Kamath expressed how honoured he was to be heading thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions India. ‘The legacy is enormous,’ he said. ‘thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions India is a front-runner in the EPC business of chemical plants and with our vast experience, dedicated strong team, continued support from our customers and our parent company, I am sure that we will succeed in the years to come as well. I am looking forward to the new role.’
Kamath is a graduate engineer from Bangalore University.
