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Taking the Electric Route

Post author:MBRDICOIN_ADMIN
Post published:September 22, 2022
Post category:Electric Car

Mercedes-Benz Research and Development India (MBRDI) focuses on innovating and accelerating the future of sustainable mobility With the Electric Vehicle (EV) revolution, underway, manufacturing companies are ramping up around the…

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Kopal Agarwal

Chief Procurement Officer, Hindalco Industries

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Kopal Agrawal works as the Chief Procurement Officer for Hindalco Industries. She joined Hindalco in 2018 in the Business Transformation vertical, working on projects across sustainability, recycling, and strategic project management. In her last role she led Raw Material Procurement, and brings with her significant experience in commodity purchasing, contracting and large value procurement processes. Prior to Hindalco, Kopal started her career with Schlumberger – one of the world’s most reputed offshore drilling companies – working on oil rigs across South east Asia and India. In her 14 years with the company, she did various roles ranging from technical engineering, Large Scale Project Management and Sales, before moving on to become the Head of the Strategic Business Unit (SBU) for India, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. Kopal is a Chemical engineer and Master’s in Management from Birla Institute of Technology & Sciences (BITS), Pilani.

Prachi Shevgaonkar

Climate Entrepreneur and the founder of Cool The Globe

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Prachi Shevgaonkar is a Climate Entrepreneur and the founder of Cool The Globe – An app for climate action with users from 100+ countries. Prachi has been awarded by the finance minister of India as the ‘Young Change-maker of the year.’

Prachi is the first Indian citizen to be appointed on the advisory board of Climate Leadership Coalition, alongside the former Prime Minister of Finland. She was selected by the Ministry of Environment and UNICEF to represent India at COP27 climate summit in Egypt, where she received COP27 Young Scholar Award from the Hon. Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav. Recently, Prachi featured in Google India’s campaign inspired by her story of building Cool The Globe App.

Prachi spent months covering stories of youth, farmers, and waste-picker communities, to understand the impact of climate change in day-to-day lives of people.

She has been mobilising citizens to tackle climate change through technology, advocacy and grass-root action.
She firmly believes that when ordinary citizens come together,
miracles can happen.

Sanjay Jain

Partner, Bharat Innovation Fund and Chief Innovation Officer at CIIE

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Sanjay is a Partner at the Bharat Innovation Fund, at IIM Ahmedabad and the Chief Innovation Officer at CIIE, where he leads efforts to help create, promote, and encourage entrepreneurship in areas around digital technology. He is also the founding chair of the technology committee, for the Modular Open-Source Identity Platform – MOSIP – that helps user organizations such as Governments implement a digital, foundational ID in a cost-effective way, while embracing the best practices of scalability, security and privacy harnessing the power of open source. Besides, he volunteers with iSPIRT, the software product industry think tank and has been one of the key contributors to help create, and evangelize various government APIs, which are collectively referred to as the India Stack.

Jochen FEESE

Head of Accident Research, Concepts, Child Safety, Sensor Functions & Systems of Integral Safety. Mercedes-Benz AG

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In 1991, Jochen Feese joined the Mercedes-Benz AG. 1994, he received his diploma in electrical engineering at the Cooperative State University in Stuttgart and began his career in the Mercedes-Benz passenger car development. Until October 2000, he worked in the cockpit development.

He then moved to the Group Research & Advanced Engineering division and worked as executive assistant for the research directorates Electronics and Mechatronics and Corporate Quality Management.

Under his leadership, in October 2004, the Tech Center Japan of the Mercedes-Benz Cars Development division was established. The department is active in the topics driver assistance systems, telematics and hybrid.

In 2009, he returned to Germany and took the lead in Group Research & Advanced Engineering for the department Technology Transfer Driver Assistance Systems/Active Safety until March 2010. From April 2010 until October 2014 he was responsible for Technology Management and Research Policy. Today, he is head of Accident Research, Concepts, Child Safety, Sensor Functions & Systems Integral Safety in the R&D division of Mercedes-Benz Cars.

Dr R Balasubramaniam

Founder – Swami Vivekanand Youth Movement and Grassroots Research and Advocacy Movement

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A development scholar, author, public policy advocate, leadership trainer known for his pioneering development work with rural and tribal people. He is currently the full time Member-HR in the Capacity Building Commission of the Government of India. He was the Frank H T Rhodes Professor at Cornell University and continues to hold academic positions at other universities. His books ‘Voices from the Grassroots’ and ‘i, the citizen’ are globally acclaimed.

Renata Jungo Brüngger

Mercedes-Benz Group AG

Member of the Board of Management of Mercedes-Benz Group AG, Integrity & Legal Affairs

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Renata Jungo Brüngger has been a member of the Board of Management of Daimler AG – now Mercedes-Benz Group AG – since January 1, 2016, with responsibility for Integrity and Legal Affairs. She is also a member of the Board of Management of Mercedes-Benz AG.

Renata Jungo Brüngger was born on August 7, 1961, in Fribourg, Switzerland. After completing her bilingual studies of jurisprudence at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland in 1985, she became a licensed attorney-at-law in 1989. While working as a lawyer, she attended an additional course of studies at the University of Zurich and gained a Master of Laws (LL.M.) in international commercial law, specializing in intellectual property rights and technology and information rights, in 1998. She joined the former Daimler AG as Head of Legal in 2011.

This Board of Management position includes Mercedes-Benz Group’s Legal Department, the Compliance Organization and the Legal Product & Technology as well as the Corporate Data Protection and Corporate Audit. It is also responsible for respecting and protecting human rights and for the sustained anchoring of a corporate culture of integrity (Integrity & Sustainability Management) throughout the Group.

Geetam Tewari

Professor of Transport Planning, IIT Delhi

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Geetam comes with 25+ years of professional experience in the areas of Transport Planning, and Traffic Engineering in India, USA, Bangladesh and African Countries. Teacher of transport planning and modelling, traffic engineering, geometric design of highways and Transport Economics at graduate and undergraduate level at the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi since 1990. Member of Transportation Research and Injury Prevention Programme at IIT Delhi. Extensive research experience in dealing with transportation issues of special relevance to low-income countries.

Rathish Balakrishnan

Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Sattva Consulting

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Rathish Balakrishnan comes with 20+ years of experience across the corporate and social sector. As Partner and Managing Partner at Sattva, he brings his extensive experience in conceptualising and implementing large-scale solutions that brings together leading foundations, corporations, civil society organisations and the government. Prior to founding Sattva Consulting, he worked at SAP Labs. His last role at the technology company involved driving cross product management initiatives across SAP Middleware Technology Platform.

Pramad Jandhyala

Co-Founder, Latent View

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Co-Founder of an analytics company providing customers with actionable insights from digital data, which helps create brands, products and services that engage with consumers, across touch points. Helped build LatentView from ground up anchoring key roles in strategy and execution to guide Latent View’s rapid growth and recognition. Prior to founding Latent View, Pramad held positions with IBM, Ford, Moody’s ICRA and Kotak Mahindra Bank.

Markus Schäfer

Mercedes-Benz Group AG

Member of the Board of Management of Mercedes-Benz Group AG. Chief Technology Officer, Development & Procurement

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Markus Schäfer is, as of the end of Annual Meeting of Daimler AG – now Mercedes-Benz Group AG – on May 22, 2019, a Member of the Board of Management. In this function, he is responsible for Development & Procurement and as of December 1, 2021 in addition Chief Technology Officer. In this function, he is responsible for the holistic development process of Mercedes-Benz Cars, as well as procurement. Markus Schäfer is also a member of the Board of Management of Mercedes-Benz AG.

Markus Schäfer was born on May 11, 1965 in Weidenau, Germany. After obtaining the University entrance diploma (Abitur) he started his studies of Mechanical Engineering at the Technical University in Darmstadt and finished with a Diplom-Ingenieur (former German equivalent to a master’s degree) in 1990. He joined the then Daimler-Benz AG as Trainee within the International Management Associate Program in November 1990.

Manu Saale

Managing Director and CEO,

Mercedes-Benz Research and Development India (MBRDI)

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As the Managing Director and CEO of Mercedes-Benz Research and Development India (MBRDI), Manu leads the largest R&D setup for Mercedes-Benz Group AG outside of Germany. Manu holds more than 26 years of experience in the automobile innovation and engineering sector. He has served across various leadership positions and played an instrumental role in achieving organizational transformation by effectively navigating complex business challenges.

With a special focus on ensuring safety of passengers and road users, Manu leads an extensive team of 6000+ talented engineers, who play a key role in accelerating the future of smart and sustainable mobility and delivering world-class solutions across global projects.

Driving ‘Digital Transformation’ at MBRDI for various innovative product portfolios of Mercedes-Benz AG, he launched the Mercedes-Benz Startup Autobahn in India, to develop cutting-edge solutions in collaboration with India’s startup ecosystem.

Manu is a keen follower of latest global technology trends. He also closely collaborates with the ER&D Council of NASSCOM to enable India’s emergence as a leading digital engineering solutions destination. Under his leadership, MBRDI has won the ‘ER&D Organization of the Year’ award at the 1st Engineering & Innovation Excellence Awards 2021 by NASSCOM. The company was also recognized as the ‘Top Innovative Company in Service’ by CII in 2021.

Manu received his Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electronics and Communication from the University of Mysore, India in 1995.

Santosh Iyer

Mercedes-Benz AG

Managing Director and CEO
Mercedes-Benz India

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Ola Källenius

Mercedes-Benz Group AG

Chairman of the Board of Management, Mercedes-Benz Group AG

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Ola Källenius has been a member of the Board of Management of Daimler AG – now Mercedes-Benz Group AG – since January 1, 2015, and Chairman of the Board of Management since May 22, 2019. He is also Chairman of the Board of Management of Mercedes-Benz AG.

Ola Källenius was born on June 11, 1969, in Västervik/Sweden. After obtaining Abitur (university entrance examination) at Grammar School of Danderyd (Sweden), he did his military service in the Swedish army in 1988/89. From 1989 until 1993 he studied at the Stockholm School of Economics (Master in Finance and Accounting) and the CEMS Programm (Master of International Management) at the University of St. Gallen. He joined the former Daimler-Benz AG as Trainee within the International Management Associate Program in 1993.

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Those meeting the minimum qualifying grades, as per MBRDI guidelines (which will be stated under each available opportunity in our ‘In For Change’ portal)
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