Dr C B Rao
Professor
Ph.D. ,Industrial Management
M.Tech. , Industrial Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai
B.E (Mechanical Engineering), Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati
cbrao2005[at]gmail[.]com
Experience
Dr. C. B. Rao has over 46 years of diversified experience in driving business and organizational growth in reputed world-class Indian companies, including subsidiaries of global MNCs. His expertise and experience covers pharmaceutical and automobile industries as well as other industries. He led multiple value-adding growth initiatives in the companies he was associated with, spanning conceptualization, execution and development of green-field and brown-field projects.
Dr. Rao has travelled across USA, Europe, Japan and Korea for business development and strategic alliances. He has built high-performance organisations with talent from multiple business and functional domains, and nurtured leadership and operating teams that could deliver competitive advantage.
Dr. C. B. Rao’s recent formal leadership assignment was as Executive Chairman and Managing Director at Pfizer Healthcare India Private Limited (2010-2015). Prior to that he was Deputy Managing Director of Orchid Pharma (1998-2010) and Head of Corporate Planning of Ashok Leyland and Hinduja Group (1978-1998). His initial assignments were in State Bank of India, Tata Motors and Scooters India (1974-1978).
In 2016, Dr. Rao founded LeaderCrest Academy to share his experience and expertise with professional and academic communities. LeaderCrest is currently into high quality academic publishing.
Dr. C. B. Rao serves as Ajit Singhvi Chair Professor in Management Studies at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai. He also supports select global and Indian corporations as Senior Advisor and Director on the Boards.
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