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Ashish Bharat Ram

Board Member at Havells

Ashish Bharat Ram took over as Managing Director of SRF Ltd. in January 2007. Under his leadership, SRF Ltd. has grown into a major global conglomerate with operations in 4 countries across India, Thailand, Hungary and South Africa. Today, its businesses cover a diverse portfolio of Technical Textiles, Fluorochemicals, Specialty Chemicals, and Packaging Films and command a market leadership position, both in India and overseas.

Prior to joining SRF Ltd. in 1994, Ashish had successful stints at American Express Bank, Toyota Motor Corporation, Japan, and DCM Toyota handling a variety of functions that included Sales, Strategy, Marketing, TQM, among others.

Ashish has been studying the dynamics of family businesses for a while now and regularly speaks on the subject at Indian and global platforms. He has also authored articles on subjects related to India’s economic scenario and entrepreneurship in leading publications. Ashish has been the Regional Chair for South Asia for the Young Presidents Organization (YPO), and is an active member of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII).

He holds a degree in Economics from Delhi University and an MBA from The Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University.