Mr Chanakya Chaudhary

Chairman, Non-Independent, Non-Executive Director

Mr. Chaudhary is a Bachelor of Engineering (Hons) – Mechanical from BITS, Pilani. He has undergone various prestigious management programs like Young Managers Program at INSEAD, France in 1997, Tata Group Executive Leadership Program in 2007 conducted by M

Mr Chanakya Chaudhary

Chairman, Non-Independent, Non-Executive Director

Mr. Chaudhary is a Bachelor of Engineering (Hons) – Mechanical from BITS, Pilani. He has undergone various prestigious management programs like Young Managers Program at INSEAD, France in 1997, Tata Group Executive Leadership Program in 2007 conducted by Michigan Ross School of Business and Executive MBA from CEDEP, France in 2008-09.

Mr Chanakya Chaudhary joined Tata Steel in 1988 as Graduate Engineer Trainee in the Raw Material Division at Jharia, Dhanbad, India. During his stint in the Collieries division, he worked in various capacities and was subsequently transferred to Total Quality Management (TQM) (Business Excellence Group), wherein he was responsible for working with various divisions of Tata Steel for getting ISO-9000 certification. He has worked as a lead assessor for Tata Group in its journey of Business Excellence and for JRD Quality Value Award based on the Malcom Baldridge Award Criteria. He was assigned as Chief Resident Executive, Delhi in 2004 and was handling Corporate Affairs of the Company. He was designated as Group Director-Corporate Communication & Regulatory Affairs on 1st November 2013 and was responsible for spear heading the Communication Strategy and Policy Advocacy for the Company.

In May 2018, Mr. Chaudhary was entrusted with the role of Vice President, Raw Materials from where he has driven many improvements to meet the current challenges and making Tata Steel’s Raw Material Supply chain robust and sustainable. With effect from November 2018, Mr. Chaudhary has been appointed as the Vice President, Corporate Services where he is handling the functions of Corporate Affairs (Administration, Corp. Communications, CSR, Security, Aviation, Sports and Medical services). He serves on the Board of Hockey Ace Foundation, Tata Steel Foundation, Medica TS Hospital Pvt. Ltd., Jamshedpur Football and Sporting Pvt. Ltd., Tata Steel Utilities & Infrastructure Services Ltd., NICCO Jubilee Park Ltd., Steel City Press Ltd., T M Mining Co Ltd., Tata Steel Special Economic Zone Ltd., S&T Mining Co Pvt. Ltd. and Tata Steel Mining Ltd. He is the co-chair of the FICCI National Sports committee, Vice Chairman of the Jharkhand State CII Council and member of the Eastern Region CII Council. He is also a member of the Communications Committee of World Steel Association (WSA).

Mr Manoj T Thomas

Independent, Non-Executive Director

Mr Manoj Thomas joined the Board of Tata Steel Special Economic Zone Limited in December 2015.

He is a Professor in the strategic management area at Xavier’

Mr Manoj T Thomas

Independent, Non-Executive Director

Mr Manoj Thomas joined the Board of Tata Steel Special Economic Zone Limited in December 2015.

He is a Professor in the strategic management area at Xavier’s School of Management (XLRI). He has been with XLRI since 2017. Prior to this, he had worked for about eight years with different organisations in research and consulting.

Mr Prasanta Mallick

Managing Director

Mr Prasanta Mallick joined Tata Steel Special Economic Zone Limited as its Managing Director in July 2019. Prior to that, he served as as General Manager, Corporate Services (CS) for Tata Steel Kalinganagar, Odisha. There, he successfully handled a complex and challenging socio-political and economic environment, ensuring that the concerns of internal and external stakeholders were well add

Mr Prasanta Mallick

Managing Director

Mr Prasanta Mallick joined Tata Steel Special Economic Zone Limited as its Managing Director in July 2019. Prior to that, he served as as General Manager, Corporate Services (CS) for Tata Steel Kalinganagar, Odisha. There, he successfully handled a complex and challenging socio-political and economic environment, ensuring that the concerns of internal and external stakeholders were well addressed. This helped him create an enabling environment for operating the first Greenfield Project in the history of Tata Steel.

With over 30 years of experience at Tata Steel Limited, Mr Mallick has worked in various capacities across plants and mining divisions of the company. He has contributed meaningfully towards achieving organisational goals in line with Tata Steel’s values and ethics. He is credited with working in a system and process-driven approach to create value for the company and the society at large.

He has also served as the Managing Director of TS Alloys (now ‘Tata Steel Mining Limited’), a 100% subsidiary of Tata Steel in the past, where he led the company’s transformation from a loss-making unit to a profit-making organization.

A Mechanical Engineer holding an MBA degree from XIMB, he started his career as an Engineer in Tata Steel in 1988.