Tata Motors Board calls Shailesh Chandra as MD, CEO

On Friday, Tata Motors announced the appointment of Shailesh Chandra as extra director, director and CEO, in force of 1 October 2025, for a three -year period. Chandra will continue to lead Tata Passenger Electric Mobility, the full EV subsidiary of the company, after the resignation of PB Balaji as CEO of the group.

PB Balaji will take the lead as CEO of JLR Automotive in the UK, effectively on the same day.

The Mumbai -based car Major’s commercial vehicle activities and the associated investments would be housed in one entity, while the business vehicles, including PV (passenger Vehicle), EV (Electric Vehicle), JLR (Jaguar Land Rover) and the associated investments, will be part of the other company.

In a legal submission, the company said that his board also approved the appointment of Girish Wagh at the Board of TML Commercial Vehicles LTD – the proposed listed entity in which the company vehicles of the automaker would be demolished – as a supplementary director, director and CEO with effect from 1 October 2025.

In addition, the company has appointed Sudha Krishnan as an extra, non-executive independent director of the company, for a five-year office from 1 October 2025. Tata Motors said that Hanne Sorensen will remain director in the board of Jaguar Land Rover Automotive PLC. UK, Kosaraju Veerayya Chowdary and Guenter Karl Butchek will become members of the Board of TML Commercial Vehicles Ltd.

In April 2016, Chandra joined Tata Motors Limited as head – business strategy and business transformation and later as president – electric mobility company and business strategy. Prior to joining Tata Motors Limited, he was engaged with Tata Sons Limited from September 2013 upto March 2016 as General Manager – Group Strategy and Assistant Vice President – ​​​​Group Chairman’s Office.He also serves as a Non-Executive Director on the Board of Directors of Tata Technologies Limited, Fiat India Automobiles Private Limited and also a Few Foreign Companies, Namely, Trilix SRL, Italy and Tata Motors Design Tech Center PLC, UK.

Chandra has a bachelor’s degree in technology in Mechanical Engineering at Banaras Hindu University and a Masters in Business Administration at the SP Jain Institute of Management and Research.