Ravi Kant has played a significant role as CEO/Vice Chairman in making TATA MOTORS (TML) an admired and successful Indian Multinational Company. He engineered the creation of the ground breaking, low cost passenger vehicle Nano and the commercial vehicle ACE which revolutionised the market. He is also credited with acquisition of Daewoo trucks of Korea as well as the iconic British Brands Jaguar and Land Rover.

Ravi played a stellar role in turning round a sick loss making scooter company (LML Vespa), rejuvenating a stagnant consumer electronics business (Philips) and creating a highly valued Indian Fashion accessory Brand (Titan). He has chaired several Tata Company boards, e.g. Tata Industries, Voltas, Tata Advance Materials Ltd, Jaguar Land Rover, Tata Daewoo, Tata Motors Thailand, Tata Cummins etc.

Currently he is on the boards of Vedanta Ltd. and Kone Ltd., Helsinki and Howkins Cookers Ltd. He is also on US based non-profit organisations Wonder Work, engaged in supporting surgery of blindness, club foot and burns. He was associated earlier with two other US based non-profit international organisations – Smile Train engaged in surgery for cleft palette and Enactus engaged in encouraging college going students to act like entrepreneurs with social goal.

Ravi is the Chairman of Indian Institute of Management Rohtak and the chairman of IIIT Allahabad and he is on the Advisory board of business schools at IIT Kharagpur and IIT Mumbai as well as China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) Shanghai, and CGIO of Business School at National University of Singapore. He has chaired Advertising Standards Council of India, Audit Bureau of Circulation and Society of Indian Automobiles Manufacturers and was on board for National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad for several years.

He is hon. D.Sc. from Aston University Birmingham and is hon. Industrial Professor at the University of Warwick UK.

Ravi has been conferred with several awards and has spoken at several fora on marketing business and leadership.

Mr Ravi Kant’s core belief is “Leading from the Back ” in contrast to the often heard “leading from the front” and believes that business leaders should no longer aspire to lead from the front but instead aim to lead from the back. He has co-authored the book ‘Leading from the Back’.

At CIMCON’ 24 Mr Ravi Kant shall be speaking on – Turning Point – Turnaround story of Jaguar Land Rover and Vespa.