Venu Srinivasan, managing director, Sundaram-Clayton Ltd and chairman and MD, TVS Motor Company Ltd, has been elected as the president of CII for 2009-10. Srinivasan succeeds ICICI bank chairman K V Kamath.

During his tenure both Sundaram-Clayton Ltd (See: Resting on TQM) and TVS Motor Company (See: TVS group : smitten by Deming) have been awarded the prestigious Deming Prize by the Union of Japanese Scientists and Engineers, Japan.

An engineer with a masters' degree in management from Purdue University, USA, Srinivasan is the honorary consul general of Republic of Korea in Chennai, and a member of the Prime Minister's Council on Trade & Industry.

Mr Srinivasan has also held positions as President of The Automotive Research Association of India and President, Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers.

Mr Srinivasan was chosen as a 'Star of Asia' by Business Week International, along with the Toyota chairman and is the first Indian industrialist to receive an honorary 'doctorate degree in science' from the University of Warwick, UK, for excellence in manufacturing and contribution in the field of technology and R&D.

He is also a recipient of the Jamshetji Tata Life Time Achievement Award 2004 from the Indian Society for Quality.

Hari S Bhartia, co-chairman and MD, Jubilant Organosys Ltd, has been elected as the vice president.

A chemical engineering graduate of by Indian Institute of Technology. Bhartia was conferred distinguished alumni award by IIT Delhi in 2000.

Bhartia's role in institutional work includes his role in various capacities with IIT Delhi and Kanpur as chairman of the board of governors, and within Confederation of Indian Industry (CII). He has been a member in several educational and science and technology programmes of government of India.