Vinayak K Deshpande has been appointed as Additional Director on the board of TRF Limited

Vinayak K Deshpande has been appointed as Additional Director on the board of TRF Limited with effect from May 29, 2018. Mr Deshpande is the Managing Director of Tata Projects.

A graduate in Chemical Engineering (1980) from IIT, Kharagpur, he has over 36 years of work experience in different roles, in diverse industries; starting with the design and sales of boilers and captive power plants at Thermax, to industrial automation and process controls at Tata Honeywell.

Mr Deshpande, who was the Managing Director of Tata Honeywell India business for five years till 2004-05,grew the company’s operations pan India, to achieve about 300% growth.


Thereafter, he had a successful stint as the Executive President (Operations) of Tata Teleservices. Mr Deshpande has been MD of Tata Projects since July 2011 with the company doubling its turnover under his charge.