Managing Director & CEO of TKIL Industries Pvt. Ltd. (formerly known as thyssenkrupp Industries India Pvt. Ltd.)
Vivek Bhatia is the MD and CEO of TKIL Industries India Pvt. Ltd., a diversified industrial business covering a portfolio of capital goods businesses spanning Mining, Cement, Power Plants & Boilers, Sugar Plants along with a large service business that includes asset management/O&M. TKIL has been in existence for over 75 years in the country, with projects and equipment suppliers all over the world. Vivek has been Managing Director &CEO of TKIL since 1st January, 2019. Passionate about innovation and application of new technologies in industry, Vivek has driven digitalization and sustainability topics aggressively at TKIL. Prior to this role, he was CEO Asia Pacific at thyssenkrupp, based in Singapore,driving group activities for all thyssenkrupp companies in the region. Prior to this, he was the Head of Strategy, Markets and Development for the Asia Pacific region, based in Singapore.
Prior to roles at thyssenkrupp, Vivek was with The Boston Consulting Group. In 2013, he was awarded a BCG Olympics Gold Medalfor the most insightful and impactful client work in the Asia region. Prior to BCG, he worked as a design engineer for refineries andpipelines at Engineers India Limited. Apart from his full time role at TKIL, Vivek is the Chairman of Mining, Construction and Equipment Division (MCED) of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), member of the FICCI Power Committee, member of the FICCI Bio EnergyCommittee, member of the National Executive Committee of Indian Chamber of Commerce and member of the National Executive Committee of MCCIA. He is Chairman of the Audit and Risk Management Committees and is a Non-Executive Independent Director onthe board of GMM Pfaudler, a global business listed in Indian stock markets.
Vivek has extensive business experience across multiple sectors including Cement and building materials, mining, metals & mineral processing, oil and gas, renewable energy equipment, power equipment (production as well as T&D), engineered/capital goods and sugar. He has worked extensively on a range of business topics spanning strategy, operations improvement, organization growth/diversification, joint ventures, PMI, carve-outs, technology licensing/transfers, business turnaround/ transformation, working capital management, operations design and re-engineering, organization design and performance management systems.
Vivek holds an MBA (from IIM Calcutta, with a focus on Strategy & Corporate Finance), M. Tech. (Gold Medalist from IIT Delhi in Energy & Environmental Management) and B.E. (with honours from University of Delhi in Mechanical Engineering).
