The leadership team of Escorts has been instrumental in chartering the growth of the company as a trusted agricultural and infrastructure solutions brand. Our leaders have played a remarkable role in leveraging Escorts’ inherent strengths to navigate unprecedented challenges and grow consistently in capabilities, influence, technology and response to customer needs
Mr. Nikhil Nanda
Chairman & Managing Director
Mr. Shailendra Agrawal
Executive Director
Mr. Shenu Agarwal
CEO – Escorts Agri Machinery
Mr. Ajay Mandahr
CEO – Escorts Construction Equipment
Mr. Dipankar Ghosh
CEO – Railway Equipment Division
Mr. Bharat Madan
Group CFO & Corporate Head
Mr. Amit Singhal
Group Chief Human Resource Officer & Dy. Corporate Head
Mr. Nikhil Nanda is a third generation entrepreneur and the driving force behind the Group’s diversified business portfolio. He has played a vital role in monitoring the company’s performance and steering the operations to greater heights. His overall contribution spanning more than 15 years has been immeasurable, particularly in the areas of operations, finance and senior management functions such as strategic planning and investment decisions. Mr. Nanda is an alumnus of Wharton Business School, Philadelphia, with majors in Management and Marketing.
Mr. Shailendra Agrawal
Mr. Shailendra Agrawal is a mechanical engineer with 35 years of diverse experience in Tata Motors, Hero Motors and Escorts Limited. A strong advocate of challenging established benchmarks and driving transformation, he has led business transformation at Escorts Limited through Business Process Re-engineering. As President of Hero Motors, he was instrumental in successful turnaround of Auto component business. He played a key role in creating product and technology roadmap through introduction of world class “product development process” and forging technology partnerships with leading technology providers. He is currently leading 2020 Business transformation project titled LEAP and initiative for achieving TPM special
Mr. Shenu Agarwal
Shenu is a Mechanical Engineer from NIT Kurukshetra and MBA from Duke University, USA, with 26 years of diverse experience. He joined the Escorts Group as a GET and worked in different key positions across domestic and international sales and marketing, R&D and product development, strategy and project management. After his last position as Head of KMC (R&D), he is currently driving sales and marketing transformation for EAM, while also creating new growth engines for Escorts by driving new and emerging businesses. He is a visionary and executor, leading Escorts Vision 2022.
Mr. Ajay Mandahr
Shenu is a Mechanical Engineer from NIT Kurukshetra and MBA from Duke University, USA, with 26 years of diverse experience. He joined the Escorts Group as a GET and worked in different key positions across domestic and international sales and marketing, R&D and product development, strategy and project management. After his last position as Head of KMC (R&D), he is currently driving sales and marketing transformation for EAM, while also creating new growth engines for Escorts by driving new and emerging businesses. He is a visionary and executor, leading Escorts Vision 2022.
Mr. Dipankar Ghosh
Mr. Dipankar Ghosh has 23 years of rich experience in full lifecycle product development,manufacturing operations, engineering management, business development, and technology transfer from many Railway OEMs to India. He is an ex-Indian Railway Service officer and was the Vice President with John Deere India in his last assignment. Mr. Ghosh is a post graduate in Engineering from BITS Pilani, and has done his management from Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, besides Advanced Global Leadership from London School of Economics as a British Chevening Scholar
Mr. Bharat Madan
Mr. Madan has 27 years of rich experience in financial management. He joined Escorts in 2005, and has since looked after overall financial accounting, audit, cash and capital management, forecasting and risk management, tax planning and optimization, financial modelling and analysis, and other such responsibilities. He has played a key role in the integration and consolidation of the finance function across all business units of the Group. In his last assignment, he was the Associate Vice President – Finance with Electrolux Kelvinator. He has previously worked with Spectrum Paints and Vishwanath Singh & Associates. Mr. Madan is a 1988 batch Chartered Accountant.
Mr. Amit Singhal
Amit is a passionate and dynamic leader with a rich and diversified experience of more than 17 years in Strategic HR, Business Partnership, Employee Relations and Culture and Change management roles. He has been instrumental in building a productive, performance-driven and process-efficient learning environment in his earlier organizations including Coca-Cola, Reliance Retail, Delphi Automotive and Tata Motors in India and International markets. With his expertise, Amit is playing a significant role in strengthening the leadership and talent pool for Escorts and building the future organisation while managing various corporate functions.
Amit is an alumnus from Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Pune and a certified Operational Excellence leader.
