Mallika Srinivasan

Mallika Srinivasan
Born 1959
Nationality Indian
Alma mater University of Madras
University of Pennsylvania
Occupation Industrialist
Organization TAFE - Tractors and Farm Equipment Limited
Home town Chennai
Title Chairman & CEO
Spouse(s) Venu Srinivasan, Chairman, TVS Motors
Parent(s) A. Sivasailam, Indira Sivasailam
Website
tafe.com

Mallika Srinivasan (Tamil: மல்லிகா ஸ்ரீனிவாசன்) is a thought leader and a strategist, recognized for entrepreneurship, commitment to excellence and contribution to Indian agriculture machinery business and academia. She is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of TAFE - Tractors and Farm Equipment Limited, a US $1.6 billion tractor major incorporated in 1960 at Chennai, India. TAFE is today, the third largest tractor manufacturer in the world and the second largest in India, by volumes, with presence in over 82 countries, including developed countries in Europe and the Americas.

She is on the Board of AGCO Corporation - USA, Tata Steel Limited and Tata Global Beverages Limited. She is a member of the Governing Board at the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad and the Bharathidasan Institute of Management, Trichy.

Professional

In a span of 25 years, Mallika established TAFE as a quality mass manufacturer of tractors, a lean and resilient organization that can effectively weather the cyclicality of the tractor business. With her special emphasis on product and process development, she has ensured significant expansion of TAFE's product range. She developed and leveraged the engineering strengths at TAFE to design, develop and manufacture a range of products for international markets, while simultaneously strengthening TAFE's partnership with AGCO for mutual growth, in both the components and complete tractors businesses. She spearheaded the acquisition of Eicher’s tractor and engines business through a wholly owned subsidiary and nurtured its growth in terms of operations and profits. She has been instrumental in ensuring clear and careful positioning of the Massey Ferguson and Eicher products in the marketplace and encouraged the expansion of the Eicher product range into a wider spectrum of horse powers to meet the emerging needs of the market. She led the company’s growth to its present status with revenues of US $1.6 billion with diverse interests in tractors, farm machinery, diesel engines, engineering plastics, hydraulic pumps and cylinders, batteries, automobile franchises and plantations. Under her leadership, TAFE has not only been a consistently profit generating company but also one of the most profitable tractor companies in the world. Mallika has led a variety of industry bodies such as the Tractor Manufacturers’ Association of India, The Madras Chamber of Commerce and has held various positions in industry bodies such as the Confederation of Indian Industry, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, etc.

Philanthropy

She has an abiding interest in ensuring development of education and healthcare in India and has been instrumental in supporting organizations such as the Sankara Nethralaya (A leading eye care organization), the Cancer Hospital in Chennai and a number of educational and healthcare facilities in Tirunelveli district in South India. In addition, she has been a generous patron of arts through her involvement in the promotion and support of one of India’s leading musical tradition of Carnatic music through the Indira Sivasailam Endowment Fund.

Academics

A university gold-medalist in Econometrics from the University of Madras, she graduated as a member of the Dean's Honor List, and the Alpha Beta Gamma Society, from the Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania, USA, and was ranked as one of its top 125 most successful alumni.

Awards and accolades

She has received several accolades and awards in recent years. In 2011, she was voted Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst and Young; awarded the Woman Leader of the Year award by Forbes India; recognized by Forbes Asia as one of the Top 50 Asian Power Businesswomen, ranked second among India’s Most Powerful Women in Business by Fortune India and named among the six Most Powerful Women of India Inc. by Business Today, while the Asian Business Leadership Forum (ABLF) honored her with the ABLF Woman of Power Award. NDTV Profit, India’s leading business television channel, accorded her the honor of Business Thought Leader of the Year 2012 Award, at the NDTV Profit Business Leadership Awards.


Year Awards and Honors Awarding Organization Reference
1999 First Business Woman of the Year award for India BBC [1]
2005 Zee Astitva Award for Exemplary Women Zee TV [2]
2005 National Leadership Award IIM Lucknow- Lakshmipat Singhania award [3]
2005-06 Business Woman of the year Award The Economic Times [4]
2007 Selected as one of the few in the Wharton’s 125 influential people and ideas Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania [5]
2004-10 Among 25 Most Powerful Women in Indian Business - for 7 consecutive years Business Today [6]
2010 University of Madras Women's Day Award University of Madras [7]
2010 Among 25 Power Women India Today Woman [8]
2010 India Inc’s Most Powerful Women Leaders The Economic Times Corporate Dossier [9]
2011 Entrepreneur of the year - Manufacturing Ernst & Young [10]
2012 Among top 6 Most Powerful Women of India Inc Business Today [11]
2012 Ranked Among Asia’s 50 Power Businesswomen Forbes Asia [12]
2012 India Inc’s Most Powerful CEOs 2012 Top Women CEOs The Economic Times [13]
2012 Forbes India Leadership Awards 2012 Women Leader of the Year Forbes India [14]
2012 Doctor of Letters (Honoris Causa) Hindustan University of Technology & Science, Chennai [15]
2012 Ranked 2nd among India’s 50 Most Powerful Women in Business Fortune India [16]
2012 ABLF Woman of Power Award Asian Business Leadership Forum Awards [17]
2013 India Today’s Power List – The Influencers India Today [18]
2013 Business Thought Leader of the Year 2012 NDTV Profit Business Leadership Awards [19]
2014 Padma Shri for Trade and Industry Government of India [20]

Organisations and affiliations

Position Organization Reference
Member - Executive Board Indian School of Business, Hyderabad [21]
Member - Governing Board (Rural Technology And Business Incubator) Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai [22]
Board Member AGCO Corporation, USA [23]
Board Member Tata Global Beverages Limited [24]
Board Member (Independent, Non-Executive Director) Tata Steel [25]

References

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  2. ↑ "Zee Astitva Awards honour women achievers". ZEE TV. April 18, 2005. Retrieved 2013-04-15.
  3. ↑ "Lakshmipat Singhania IIM, Lucknow, national leadership awards - 2005". IIM Lucknow. Retrieved 2013-04-15.
  4. ↑ "ET business woman of the year". The Economic Times. Sep 27, 2006. Retrieved 2013-04-15.
  5. ↑ "A new voice in a tradition-bound industry". The Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania, USA. Retrieved 2013-04-15.
  6. ↑ "Tractor queen on a roll - Mallika Srinivasan". Business Today. September 18, 2011. Retrieved 2013-04-15.
  7. ↑ "Spark of the Corporate - Mallika Srinivasan". Retrieved 2013-04-16.
  8. ↑ "India’s 25 most influential women". India Today Woman. Retrieved 2013-04-15.
  9. ↑ "India Inc's most powerful CEOs 2012: Top women CEOs". The Economic Times Corporate Dossier. May 25, 2012. Retrieved 2013-04-15.
  10. ↑ "Entrepreneur of the Year 2010 - Manufacturing". Ernst & Young. Retrieved 2013-04-15.
  11. ↑ "Six Most Powerful Women of India Inc. 2011". Business Today. Retrieved 2013-04-15.
  12. ↑ "Asia's 50 Power Businesswomen Mallika Srinivasan". Forbes Asia. Retrieved 2013-04-15.
  13. ↑ "India Inc’s Most Powerful CEO 2012 – Top Women CEOs". The Economic Times. May 25, 2012. Retrieved 2013-04-15.
  14. ↑ "TAFE, Mallika Srinivasan: The Tractor Queen". Forbes India. Oct 11, 2012. Retrieved 2013-04-15.
  15. ↑ "3rd Annual Convocation - 2012". Hindustan University of Technology & Science Chennai. Retrieved 2013-04-15.
  16. ↑ "50 Most Powerful Women in Business – Ranks Fortune India". Fortune India. November 16, 2012. Retrieved 2013-04-15.
  17. ↑ "ABLF Awards 2012 Winners". Asian Business Leadership Forum. Retrieved 2013-04-15.
  18. ↑ "TAFE Chairman Mallika Srinivasan featured in India Today Woman’s Power List 2013". tractorsindia.com. Retrieved 2013-04-16.
  19. ↑ "Business Thought Leader of the Year: Mallika Srinivasan". NDTV Profit. April 9, 2013. Retrieved 2013-04-15.
  20. ↑ "Padma Awards Announced". Press Information Bureau Government of India Ministry of Home Affairs. January 25, 2014. Retrieved 2014-02-11.
  21. ↑ "Executive Board". Indian School of Business. Retrieved 2013-04-16.
  22. ↑ "Board of Directors". RTBI, IITM's Rural Technology and Business Incubator. Retrieved 2013-04-16.
  23. ↑ "DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS". AGCO. Retrieved 2013-04-16.
  24. ↑ "Board of Directors". TATA Global Beverages Limited. Retrieved 2013-04-16.
  25. ↑ "Board of Directors". TATA Steel. Retrieved 2013-04-16.