Dr Nirmalya Kumar, Professor of Marketing at the London Business School, will join Tata Sons as Member – Group Executive Council reporting to the Chairman, Cyrus P. Mistry, from August 1. He will be the fourth appointee to the council following Madhu Kannan, Mukund Govind Rajan and N.S. Rajan.
A Tata Sons press release said that Dr Nirmalya Kumar will hold responsibility for strategy at the group level. In addition, Dr Kumar will lend his expertise in bringing customer centricity to the fore, across the group companies.
Dr Kumar received his B.Com from the Calcutta University, his MBA from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and his PhD in marketing from the Northwestern University, the USA. He has taught at the Harvard Business School, IMD (Switzerland) and the Kellogg Graduate School of Management. He is a member of the Board of Governors of the London Business School and has served on the Boards of several top companies too, the release said.