Kirloskar Joint Venture Board is to be headed by Manasi Tata after the passing of Vikram Kirloskar, the Chairman and Managing Director of Kirloskar Systems Private Ltd (KSPL). Manasi Tata is the only daughter of Vikram Kirloskar and Geetanjali Kirloskar.
The company announced on Monday, Manasi, 33-year-old will take over as the Director of Kirloskar Systems. She has been the CEO and Executive Director of the company and now she is all set to head the company, following her father’s footsteps.
She will lead Kirloskar Joint Venture Board which include companies such as Toyota Industries Engine India, Kirloskar Toyota Textile Machinery, Toyota Material Handling India and Denso Kirloskar Industries.
Manasi Tata, graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in the US, later took up a three-year training at Toyota Kirloskar Motor to understand technical processes, manufacturing, Japanese work culture, industry-leading quality management systems and business functions. She also is a passionate painter and runs an NGO 'Caring with Colour' and works with government schools in three districts of Karnataka. She is married to Neville Tata, nephew of Ratan Tata.
The Kirloskar Group started with making iron plough and chaff cutters as their very first products in the 1900s; since then, for over 130 years they’ve been responsible for modernization in the agricultural and farming sector as they’ve ventured into many more sectors.
