TVS SCS appoints Tarun Khanna to its board as Independent Director
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which is among India’s largest and fastest-growing supply chain solutions providers announced the
appointment of Mr Tarun Khanna as an Independent Director to its Board. This appointment takes
the strength of the Board to eleven members, of which four are Independent Directors.
Mr R Dinesh, Executive Vice Chairman, TVS Supply Chain Solutions said, “I am delighted to welcome
Tarun to our Board as we prepare to go public. He brings deep understanding and knowledge of how
entrepreneurship and innovation can be harnessed to build companies of global relevance and scale
from emerging economies. He had been instrumental in shaping our approach to build a
differentiated tech-led supply chain business in the early days and now he joins the board to help us
scale faster and further.”
An academician, author and economic strategist, Mr Tarun Khanna is the Jorge Paulo Lemann
Professor at the Harvard Business School (HBS). For over two decades, he has studied
entrepreneurship as a means to social and economic development in emerging markets. At HBS
since 1993, after obtaining degrees from Princeton and Harvard, he has taught courses on strategy,
corporate governance and international business to MBA and Ph.D. students and senior executives.
On joining the Board of TVS SCS, Mr Tarun Khanna said, “I am happy to join the board of TVS SCS and
be part of a values-led company, which is entering into its next phase of growth. TVS SCS has played
an important role in revolutionising the supply chain industry and it has built deep capabilities in this
space. The company is well poised to address the tremendous growth opportunities ahead. I look
forward to working closely with the leadership team of TVS SCS, to help further strengthen and
rapidly grow the business.”
Mr Khanna serves on numerous for-profit and not-for-profit boards in the US and India, including
AES, a Washington DC headquartered global power company, and inMobi, India’s first ‘unicorn’.
More recently, he has been part of numerous commissions for the Government of India related to
the promotion of entrepreneurship and to higher education reform.
In 2016, Mr Khanna was recognized by the Academy of Management as Eminent Scholar for Lifetime
Achievement in the field of International Management.
About TVS Supply Chain Solutions:
Promoted by the erstwhile TVS Group (and now part of the TVS Mobility Group, one of the reputed
business groups in India), TVS Supply Chain Solutions Limited (“TVS SCS” or “Company”) is an India
based multinational company, which pioneered the development of the supply chain solutions
market in India. For the last 15 years, TVS SCS has managed large and complex supply chains across
multiple industries in India and select global markets through customized tech-enabled solutions.
The Company’s global customers include 61 ‘Fortune Global 500 2021’ companies and 24 ‘Fortune
Global 500 2021’ Indian companies, across numerous industries such as automotive, industrial,
consumer, tech and tech infra, rail and utilities, and healthcare.
TVS SCS provides specialized solutions spanning the entire value chain from sourcing to
consumption, to reduce complexity in its customers’ supply chains by using technology, data
analytics and execution experience. The Company’s digital platforms are largely cloud based,
powered by a micro service-based architecture and are highly scalable and reliable, thereby enabling
it to implement innovative solutions across multiple geographies in a relatively short time.
For more details, please visit www.tvsscs.com
