Rama Kirloskar appointed as the Joint Managing Director of Kirloskar Brothers Limited and will look after the Domestic business. She is also a member of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Committee and Risk Management Committee.
She currently serves as the Managing Director of Kirloskar Ebara Pumps Limited (KEPL), a joint venture between Kirloskar Brothers Limited, parent company of the 133-year-old Kirloskar Group and Ebara Corporation, Japan. She has been instrumental in the turnaround of KEPL into a debt free company.
Previously, she was General Manager and Head of the Product Portfolio Management at Kirloskar Brothers Limited, where she was responsible for driving the Go-to-market strategy, product value management and restructuring for the mass production business; material grade rationalization and streamlining for the foundry business and product rationalization for the made-to-order business.
She holds a double major in Mathematics and Biology from Bryn Mawr College, USA. After graduation, she went on to work at Polaris Partners, a multi-stage venture capital firm that principally invests in technology, healthcare and consumer products, headquartered at Boston, MA, USA. Subsequently, she worked at the Koch Institute at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA. Her research led her and the team to begin working with Visterra Inc., an MIT biotechnology start-up company that currently uses its proprietary platform to design therapeutics for infectious diseases.
She is one of the authors of a publication in the journal Cell (Robinson et al.,2015, Cell 162,1–12, doi:10.1016/j.cell.2015.06.057),in the paper titled “Structure-Guided Design of an Anti-Dengue Antibody Directed to a Non-Immunodominant Epitope”.
She is also on the Board of Karad Projects and Motors Limited and Prakar Investments Private Limited. She is on the Executive Council of AGNIi (Accelerating Growth of New India’s Innovations), a programme of the Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India and a Mission under the Prime Minister’s Science Technology and Innovation Advisory Council (PM-STIAC).
She is a member of Corporate Social Responsibility Committee and Risk Management Committee.
Alok Kirloskar
Alok Kirloskar, Director on the Board of KBL and CEO of Kirloskar Brothers International BV [which includes SPP Pumps Ltd] to oversee International Business
Kirloskar Brothers Limited (KBL).
Alok who has been based in London since 2012 is a Director on the Board of KBL and CEO of Kirloskar Brothers International BV [which includes SPP Pumps Ltd], continues to head all the overseas businesses and leads many technology initiatives at KBL.
The roles will continue to evolve based on key operational portfolios in industrial and engineered pumps held by Sanjay Kirloskar, Managing Director, the company said.
