Name Pawan Goenka | Spouse Mamta Goenka | |
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Occupation Executive Director, Mahindra & Mahindra Children Pooja Goenka, Puneet Goenka | ||
Dr Pawan Goenka is the Managing Director of Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd, an Indian multinational automobile manufacturing corporation headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India and the Chairman of SsangYong Motor Company in Korea.
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Early life
Dr Pawan Goenka did his schooling in Kolkata, India and then earned his B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering from I.I.T. Kanpur and Ph.D. from Cornell University, U.S.A. He is also a Graduate of Advanced Management Program from HBS. He worked at General Motors R&D Centre in Detroit, U.S.A. from 1979 to 1993. Thereafter he joined Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd., as General Manager (R&D).
Career
Dr Goenka joined Mahindra in October 1993 as the General Manager, R&D. He was appointed as the Chief Operating Officer for the automotive sector in April 2003. In September 2005, he became the President of the automotive sector and by April 2010 he was the President of the Automotive and Farm Equipment Sectors. "He was appointed to the post of Executive Director of Mahindra & Mahindra in 2013 and in April 2014, he took over the additional responsibility of the two wheeler business. In Nov 2016 Dr Pawan Kumar Goenka was elevated to the post of Managing Director of M&M."
Dr. Goenka is the past President of SIAM, Society of Automotive Engineers India, and ARAI Governing Council, and was a Board Member of National Skills Development Corporation (NSDC) from Aug.2013 to Aug.2014. He is also a National Council member of CII, and Chairman of Board of Governors of IIT Madras.
Awards and Honours
Personal life
Dr. Goenka is married to Mamta Goenka who "volunteers her time to counsel cancer patients and help them receive proper treatment and post-operative care".