Praveen P Kadle

Mr Praveen P Kadle is the Managing Director & CEO of Tata Capital Limited, a subsidiary of Tata Sons Limited. Tata Capital is Tata’s foray into the financial services space covering products and services ranging from retail and commercial lending, distribution and broking, wealth management, investment banking and private equity.

Mr Kadle is an Hons. Graduate in Commerce & Accountancy from the Bombay University and has qualified as a Chartered Accountant, Cost & Works Accountant and Company Secretary.

Mr Kadle has been working for the Tata’s for the last 21 years. For the first 5 years, he was the Chief Financial Officer of Tata’s Joint Venture with IBM in India. Thereafter, in 1996 he was transferred to Tata Motors Limited as the Vice President (Finance) and in the year 2001 he was promoted to the Board of Tata Motors Limited as Executive Director – Finance and Corporate Affairs.

Mr Kadle has played a major role in the turnaround and growth of Tata Motors. He was also instrumental in the turnaround and financial restructuring of the erstwhile Tata Finance Limited. While in Tata Motors, he was also instrumental in setting up and guiding operations of Tata Technologies and TELCON (a Tata Motors – Hitachi JV) which have become market leaders in the engineering design space and in the construction equipment business in India.

During his tenure at Tata Motors Mr Kadle was a part of the senior leadership team that managed the cross-border acquisitions like Daewoo Truck Company of S.Korea, Incat Technologies of UK and Jaguar-Land Rover of UK. He also led the Fund raising programme of US$ 5 bn during this period.

Prior to his joining the Tata’s, Mr Kadle worked as the CEO and member of the Board of Garware-Wall Ropes Limited, a synthetic yarn, industrial fabric & synthetic cordage company having global operations with a consistent profit track record.

Mr Kadle is a Board member on various Tata and non-Tata companies. He contributes to many industry and economic bodies both domestic and international. These include, a position on the Advisory Board of Japan’s Institute for Indian Economic Studies (IIES) and as a member of the Advisory Board of Centre for Strategic Leadership - NUS Business School, Singapore. Additionally, he is also actively involved with various Public Charitable institutions notably as the Board Member and Honorary Treasurer of Child Rights and You (CRY).

Mr Kadle has received a number of awards in recognition of his outstanding contribution to Tata Motors Limited, which are : CNBC-TV18, the Country's best performing CFO in the Auto & Auto Ancillaries sector for 2006; ‘The Best CFO of the year 2005’ in India by Business Today; The ‘CFO of the year 2004’ by IMA (formerly known as Economist Intelligence Unit) and has been recently inducted as Founding member to the CFO Hall of Fame in India.

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