Mr. Venu Srinivasan, Chairman of the Sundaram-Clayton Group, which includes TVS Motor Company, the third largest two-wheeler manufacturer, has now joined the Board of Tata Sons.
Mr. Venu Srinivasan, the grandson of the TVS Group’s founder, T.V. Sundaram Iyengar, is also the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Srirangam Sri Ranganathaswany Temple and the Managing Trustee of the Srinivasan Services Trust (SST), the social arm of Sundaram-Clayton Ltd. and TVS Motor Company.
Under his leadership as its Managing Director, Sundaram Clayton’s brakes division won the Deming Prize in 1998 for having “achieved distinctive performance improvements through application of company-wide quality control”. In 2002, TVS Motor Company also won the Deming Prize, becoming the first two-wheeler company in the world to do so.