December 04, 2008

TATA Steel announces new organization structure

TATA Steel has announced a new organization structure effective from January 1st 2008. The release said that “TATA Steel Group comprises of 2 entities, namely, TATA Steel including TATA Steel Thailand & NatSteel Asia and Corus Group Limited. In order to realize this ambition, a new organization is announced on November 28th 2007, which is effective from January 1st 2008.

1) Mr Ratan Tata chairman of TATA Steel will continue to chair the strategy and integration committee

2) Mr Jim Leng, Mr B Muthuraman, Mr Philippe Varin, Dr Tridibesh Mukherjee, Mr Rauke Henstra, Mr Hemant Nerurkar, Mr Koushik Chatterjee and Mr Jean Sebastien Jacques are members of this committee

The release added that “A group centre is created for functions that are to be performed with a common approach across the TATA Steel Group. These functions are technology & integration, finance, strategy, corporate relations & communications and global minerals. The executives responsible for these functions will report to the MD of TATA Steel and the CEO of Corus.”

1. Dr Tridibesh Mukherjee is appointed as group director of technology & integration
2. Mr Koushik Chatterjee is appointed as group CFO
3. Mr Jean Sebastien Jacques is appointed as group director, strategy
4. Mr Manzer Hussain is appointed as group director, communication
5. Mr Arun D Baijal is appointed as group director of global minerals

Both TATA Steel and Corus entities will have executive committees chaired by Mr B Muthuraman MD and Mr Philippe Varin CEO respectively.