TVS Supply Chain Solutions (TVS SCS) has announced the appointment of Tarun Khanna as Independent Director of its Board. This appointment takes the strength of the Board to 11 members, of which four are independent directors.
Khanna was instrumental in shaping the company's approach to building a differentiated tech-led supply chain business in the early days, noted R Dinesh, Executive Vice Chairman, TVS SCS. He said, 'I am delighted to welcome Tarun to our Board as we prepare to go public. He brings deep understanding and knowledge of how entrepreneurship and innovation can be harnessed to build companies of global relevance and scale from emerging economies.'
An academician, author and economic strategist, Khanna is the Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at the Harvard Business School (HSB). For over two decades, he has studied entrepreneurship as a means of social and economic development in emerging markets. At HBS since 1993, after obtaining degrees from Princeton and Harvard, he has taught courses on strategy, corporate governance and international business to MBA and PhD students and senior executives.
He serves on numerous for-profit, and not-for-profit boards in the US and India, including AES, a Washington DC headquartered global power company, and inMobi, India’s first ‘unicorn’. More recently, he has been part of numerous commissions for the Government of India related to the promotion of entrepreneurship and higher education reform.
On his appointment, Khanna said, “I am happy to join the board of TVS SCS and be part of a values-led company, which is entering into its next phase of growth. TVS SCS has played an important role in revolutionising the supply chain industry and it has built deep capabilities in this space. The company is well poised to address the tremendous growth opportunities ahead. I look forward to working closely with the leadership team of TVS SCS, to help further strengthen and rapidly grow the business.”
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