Ashok leyland ceo

Name: R. Seshasayee
Age: 61
Designation: Managing Director, Ashok Leyland
Number of years in the Company: 33
Attributes: Careful, believes in gradual change and focus
Achievements: Cost Cutting, reducing flab and salvaging Ashok Leyland from the economic slowdown in the late nineties
Quotable Quote: "First you have to ensure that you build your strengths to defend."

Name: Vinod Dasari
Age: 43
Designation: Chief Operating Officer, Ashok Leyland
Number of years in the company: 4
Attributes: Entrepreneurial , quick adaptability and multi-faceted approach
Achievements: Taking the focus back to the customers and bringing Entrepreneurial flair back to the company
Quotable Quotes: "As long as the customer is more profitable we will get more market share."


To understand the journey of a 60-year-old company like Ashok Leyland, you need to know two stories.

First: In 1948, Raghunandan Saran, the son of a Delhi-base