Ashok Leyland Appoints Shenu Agarwal as MD and CEO: Shenu Agarwal has been named the new MD & CEO of renowned truck and bus manufacturer Ashok Leyland, effective immediately. Agarwal will spearhead Ashok Leyland’s technological advancement, business expansion, and long-term strategy as it works to realise its goal of ranking among the top 10 Commercial Vehicle players globally.
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About Shenu Agarwal:
Agarwal joins the Hinduja flagship, with a 21.28 billion rupee market cap, from Escorts Kubota Ltd., where he served as President-Agri Machinery and Construction Equipment. Prior to that, he spent more than seven years as the Chief Executive of Escorts’ Agri machinery division. During that time, he played a key role in the transformation of the company’s farm equipment division by leading transformative marketing initiatives, introducing disruptive business models and products, and creating new benchmarks for cost-effectiveness.
Agarwal, an MBA from Duke University, USA, and a B.Tech. from NIT Kurukshetra, brings with him more than 30 years of experience. He has worked across sales and marketing, product development, R&D, strategy, and project management.
About The Transition:
Since Vipin Sondhi abruptly left his role as MD and CEO in November 2021, citing personal and family commitments, Ashok Leyland’s Board has been looking for a qualified candidate.
Sondhi served as MD & CEO of the company between December 2019 and December 2021. Over these months, Dheeraj Hinduja, as Executive Chairman, has been steering the company.
What Has Been Said:
Shenu has a proven track record as a leader from a business conglomerate and is an allrounder having worked in different capacities in many disciplines. With Shenu in charge, Ashok Leyland’s reliability focus, worldwide expansion ambitions, and ongoing pursuit of increasing stakeholder value will all be strengthened, according to Executive Chairman Dheeraj Hinduja.
