Management

Mr. Ankit Dahiya

Head, Corporate Strategy, JSW Steel

CEO, NEOTREX Steel Private Ltd.

Ankit Dahiya is Head of Corporate Strategy at JSW Steel, the flagship business of the diversified US $24 Billion JSW Group with presence in Asia, Africa, Europe and America. He is also a senior member at Mr. Sajjan Jindal’s (Chairman, JSW Group) office and is one of the youngest business leaders in the company. He is the organizational representative of JSW Steel at the World Steel Association, the apex body for Steel globally.

As the Head of Corporate Strategy at JSW Steel, Ankit leads research on new product development & diversification and is at the helm of strategic discussions on business expansion strategy, business collaborations and acquisitions. As an extension of this role, in 2018, Ankit was appointed the project lead on the identification of a new product for the JSW Group - LRPC (Low Relaxation Prestressed Concrete Strands) and tasked with its setup as a subsidiary of JSW Steel Ltd. Today, he is the CEO of the company, with a projected revenue of $150 Million by 2025.

As a senior member of the Chairman’s office, Ankit represents the group with senior Business & Political Leaders and pilots all strategic research for Mr. Jindal’s conversation with Policy makers globally. In this role, he also designed, developed and deployed a COVID Response System to safeguard the 100,000 member workforce across India while ensuring that there were minimal disruptions to plant operations.

Ankit has a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Mumbai University, India. As a testament to his leadership abilities, Ankit has been twice selected as a Future Fit Leader for leadership training at the renowned Indian School of Business.


Mr. Rajashekhar Pattanasetty

Mr. Rajashekhar Pattanasettyia has done his graduation in Mechanical Engineering from Karnataka University in the year 1982 and started his career as a faculty (between 1982 – 83) in Vijayanagara Engineering College, Bellary. (RYMEC). In the year 1983, he joined Bokaro Steel Ltd. (A unit of Steel Authority of India Ltd), he served there for six years and then he moved to Vizag Steel plant, Visakhapattanam, in the year 1989. After serving in different capacities at public sector units, he joined JSW Steel Ltd. in the year 1998. He has a versatile experience of 38 yrs in the areas of Maintenance, Projects and Operations of Steel & Power plants. He also has expertise in Project planning and execution. His contributions towards the organization was recognized and was elevated to head the India’s largest integrated steel plant of the country (JSW Steel Ltd, Vijayanagar works). During his tenure as the head of the location, the plant achieved its highest production while attaining all its efficiency parameters. Presently, he is a Whole-time Director and CEO of JSW Vijayanagar Metallics Limited. He also has an international patent in his name for a modification carried out in Corex unit of JSW Steel Ltd.


Mr. Chandrasekaran Prabhakaran

Mr. Chandrasekaran Prabhakaran, is currently the Financial Controller for JSW Steel Group. Mr. Prabhakaran is responsible for business control, budgeting, financial reporting under Ind AS, Statutory Audit and controller for systems and processes at JSW Steel

He has an experience of over two decades in the field of Finance and Accounting (especially Ind AS, IFRS) Business Control, Treasury, Taxation and Regulatory Compliance.

Mr. Prabhakaran joined the JSW Group in November 2014 and has played an active role in Ind AS Transition of JSW Steel, restructuring of entities and involved in the GST implementation for the JSW Steel group. Prior to joining the group Mr. Prabhakaran had earlier worked with Vedanta Limited part of the Vedanta Group and has worked with organizations like The Madras Aluminium Company Limited(MALCO), Bharat Aluminium Company Limited (BALCO) and Deloitte.

Mr. Prabhakaran has handled one of the largest mergers (Sesa Sterlite Merger) in his stint with the Vedanta Group.


Mr. Dilip Pagariya

Mr. Dilip Pagariya is a Bachelor in Engineering (Electronics) and has also done MS in Computer Science from University of North Texas, USA. He has over 35 years of experience and expertise in implementation, manufacturing, marketing and financing of online measuring instruments required by steel industries. He worked with M/s Data Measurements Corp, USA from 1986-1991 and was involved in analysis, design, implementation and commissioning of Nucleonic and X-ray based online Measuring instruments for Hot and Cold Metal Rolling Mills and Process Lines. Presently, he is the Managing Director of a private limited company promoted by him in 1991 for manufacturing and supply of online measuring instruments for steel rolling mills which is being supplied to domestic as well as overseas companies.


Mr. Jayant Suryakant Padgilwar

Mr. Jayant Suryakant Padgilwar is a Bachelor in Engineering (Mechanical) and has about 38 years of Industrial experience in manufacturing, marketing, finance looking after production and marketing of agricultural equipment mainly multicrop thresher and hot air cotton seed drier. He is self-employed and is engaged in the business of manufacturing of agricultural equipment. He is also a director in some other companies and partner of some firms.