Our Team

Vinod AggarwalMD and CEO - VECV

Vinod Aggarwal is the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of VE Commercial Vehicles Ltd (VECV), a Joint Venture Company between AB Volvo of Sweden and Eicher Motors Limited.

He has been associated with Eicher Group from 1983 and since then has handled various assignments across the Tractor, Trucks, Buses, Gears and Engines Businesses. He took over the role of the Group CFO in 2006; President of Eicher Trucks and Buses in 2009; CEO in July 2010 and Managing Director in October 2016.

He was intimately involved in Eicher Group restructuring culminating in creation of the Joint Venture between AB Volvo and Eicher Motors.

A Commerce graduate from Punjab University, he is dually qualified as Chartered Accountant and Cost & Management Accountant.

He was conferred the ‘CV Man of the Year Award’ in 2014, felicitated with the ‘Hall of Fame Award’ by Manufacturing Today in 2015 and adjudged as the ‘Best CEO’ in the Medium & Heavy(CV) Makers category in 2016 by World Auto Forum.

R. S. SachdevaCOO - Eicher Trucks and Buses

Mr. R S Sachdeva is the Chief Operating officer - Eicher Trucks and Buses. Mr. Sachdeva is responsible for design and development of the complete product range of Eicher branded Trucks and Buses, as well as for the development of the new range of Engines.

An Automobile Engineer by qualification and passion, Mr. Sachdeva has 27 years of experience in Automobile Design and Development. He has been associated with the organization since 1991.

Anders HagerEVP and CFO – VECV

Mr Anders Häger is the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial officer (CFO) of VE Commercial Vehicles Ltd. (VECV), A Joint Venture Company between AB Volvo of Sweden and Eicher Motors Limited.

Anders holds Master’s degree in Business Management from University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

Anders first joined Volvo Group in 2003 and was Senior Vice President of Controlling and Strategy at Group Trucks Technology (GTT) before moving here, a position he has held since 2012. Prior to GTT, he was Head of Business Control for Volvo 3P from 2003 to 2012.

Before joining Volvo, he had various senior managerial positions in the Swedish Gas Company AGA and also in the German engineering company Linde.

Rama Rao ASEVP - HD Truck Business

Mr. Rama Rao A S is the Executive Vice President-Sales, Marketing, Aftermarket-VTI division, VE Commercial Vehicles Ltd.

An Engineer by qualification, Mr. Rama Rao has 28 years of entrepreneurial and professional experience and has been associated with the organization since 2002.

Shyam MallerEVP – Network Development & Excellence, COCO and Non-Automotive Engines

Mr. Shyam Maller is the Executive Vice President, Sales and Marketing, VE Commercial Vehicles Ltd. for the entire range of Eicher Trucks and Buses.

His academic credentials include a Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Madras University and a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. With over 25 years in the automobile domain, he has been associated with the organization for 16 years.

B Anil BaligaEVP - Bus Body and Application Manufacturing

Mr. B Anil Baliga is the Executive Vice President - Buses & Applications, VE Commercial Vehicles.

Ltd. Mr. Baliga has been instrumental in putting up the Truck plant way back in 1985 and for transfer of technology from Mitsubishi, for the heavy duty truck ground up development in early 2000 and off late has been responsible for setting up of the new plant for bus manufacturing and Special Applications’ manufacturing.

An Engineer by qualification from BITS Mesra, Mr. Baliga has held several prominent positions in his 31 years of association with the organization.

B SrinivasSVP – Strategy & Product Planning and Bus Business

Mr. B Srinivas is the Senior Vice President, Strategy and Product Planning, VE Commercial Vehicles Ltd.

He has 23 years’ of experience in Eicher and has worked in various positions in Strategy, product planning, supply chain management, strategic sourcing, purchasing, global sourcing, capacity enhancement, supplier quality assurance, Production planning, procurement and product development .

He has B. Tech- Mechanical Engineering, Graduate Diploma in Materials Management and PG Diploma in Industrial Engineering & Management.

Rajesh MishraSVP & CDO – Business Processes & Systems

Mr Rajesh Mishra is the SVP & CDO – Chief Digital Officer.

Mr Rajesh Mishra is responsible for group wide initiatives on Process transformation and IT Solutions. Mr Mishra has more than 27 years of Industry experience in IT and Large scale transformation Programs. He has done his Graduation and Post - Graduation from BITS, Pilani.

Aditya K ShrivastavaSVP - Manufacturing Operations

Mr. Aditya K Shrivastava is the Head of Manufacturing Operations and is responsible for production, manufacturing quality, procurement, part distribution Centre (VEPDC) and logistics.

An engineering graduate with 27 years of rich experience in automotive and heavy engineering industries, Mr. Srivastava has been associated with VECV since Dec 2011.

Hitendra MishraSVP - Eicher Engineering Components

Mr. Hitendra Mishra is Senior Vice President and Head of Eicher Engineering Components, “an independent Business Unit” responsible for making components and Transmission Assembly.

He joined Eicher in the year 1992. He is credited with a paper on ‘Six Sigma Improvement’ published in journal (ICFAI University Press Journal 2007).

He is a Mechanical Engineer from (Regional Engineering College, Kurukshetra), and has done his PGDM from XLRI Jamshedpur.

S S GillSVP - International Business and Brand & Communications

S S Gill is Senior Vice President, heading the International Business of V E Commercial Vehicles Ltd. He is responsible for Sales, Marketing & After-market for the Eicher brand in international markets.

A mechanical engineer by qualification, he has been associated with the organization since 1992. During his 25 years of experience, he has worked in various positions in Sales, Marketing, After-market, Product Management, Project Management, Strategy, Quality, Purchasing and Manufacturing - in Trucks and components business.

He is also responsible for product strategy, network development and out of India logistics for the international business.

Kinjal ChoudharySVP - Human Resources

Kinjal has over two decades of experience across some of the leading companies in FMCG, ITES, e-Commerce as well as real estate industries in HR across manufacturing, supply chain, sales. He has worked in organizations like ITC Ltd, Hindustan Unilever, PepsiCo India, Amazon Seller Services in several senior HR roles.

Kinjal has been Strategic HR Business Partner partnering with business in understanding the people imperatives necessary for business success and designing and implementing people interventions which would enable the business to succeed.

He has played specialist role in the area of Compensation & Benefits and been instrumental in designing and fostering pay-for performance culture through innovative practices with specific measures to monitor and review the impact of these practices on the business outcomes. He has led Performance Management to enable a culture of execution efficiency across large organizations in the functions of manufacturing, sales, supply chain through focusing on sharply defined goals, transparency in measuring progress on the goals and creating a cadence of accountability at each level.

He is experienced in the area of Organization design & Development having partnered with senior management with organization design solutions as well as creating the appropriate processes and systems to enable the organization design to succeed in the specific business context. He has led initiatives on Talent Management creating a clear framework for competency development relevant to the business context and measuring the same for talent identification. The same has been used for evaluating talent not just from performance perspective but also from the perspective of future potential.

He is a certified Hogan Coach with experience in senior level coaching. He has done extensive work in the area of Culture assimilation in a diverse workforce within a rapidly growing organization having implemented Gallup’s Q12 framework as well as Great Places to Work framework in organizations.

Kinjal also has extensive Industrial Relations experience across all Regions in India.

B DINAKARSVP – VTI

Vishal MathurSVP – LMD Truck Business