Tata Sons, the holding company of Tata group firms, on Friday announced organisational changes by providing additional responsibilities for group veterans. This follows the resignations of three senior Tata Sons executives - Nirmalya Kumar, N S Rajan and Madhu Kannan.
The group's human resources responsibilities will be overseen by S Padmanabhan, in addition to his existing responsibilities of leading the Tata Business Excellence Group, Tata Sons said in a statement.
Further, Mukund Rajan will continue to be responsible for Ethics & Sustainability, and will take additional responsibility of overseeing the operations of the overseas representative offices of Tata Sons in the USA, Singapore, Dubai and China.
In addition to his responsibilities for Marketing and Customer Centricity, Harish Bhat will henceforth also be responsible for managing the Tata Brand. In the interim, he will oversee the functions of Strategy and Business Development.
While Gopichand Katragadda will continue to be the Group Chief Technology Officer, Sanjay Singh will oversee the Public Affairs function out of the Delhi office.
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