Mr. Muthuraman to be new MD of Tata Steel
Mumbai: Tata Steel managing director JJ Irani will be succeeded by Mr. B Muthuraman as the managing director (MD) with effect from July 22, 2001. Dr Irani (65) retires in June this year.

Mr. Muthuraman, 56, was appointed the new MD of Tata Steel by the company's board last Monday. He is currently the executive director (special projects).

As the executive director, Mr. Muthuraman has been responsible for the conceptualisation, formation and implementation of Tata Steel's new cold rolling mill project at Jamshedpur. He is also director on the boards of Tata Pigments and Tata Ryerson.

Mr. Muthuraman has been associated with implementation of several projects at Tata Steel. He has successfully implemented the CR mill in record time, and is expected to steer the task of completing the galvanised CR mill, which will manufacture high quality galvanised steel for the automobile sector and the white goods sector. Mr. Muthuraman is a B.Tech (metallurgy) from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and holds a post graduate diploma in business management with specialisation in marketing and finance from XLRI, Jamshedpur. He joined Tata Steel as a graduate trainee in 1966 and has a wealth of experience working in various divisions of the company.
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