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promoted as Managing Director,
Renault Nissan Automotive India
Pvt. Ltd. (RNAIPL). As such, he
will relocate to Chennai and assume
responsibility for Nissan’s manu-
facturing operations at the Alliance
production facility in Oragadam, re-
porting to Mr. Toru Hasegawa.
Mr. Sano has over 30 years experi-
ence with Nissan working in several
production facilities in Japan, Indo-
nesia and North America in a range of
key engineering roles, including new
model launch preparation. One of his
responsibilities at RNAIPL will be to
manage the continued development
of the Chennai plant, which recently
doubled its production capacity to
400,000 units per year.
Mr. Kou Kimura, currently Man-
aging Director of the Chennai plant,
will return to Japan to take up a sen-
ior position within NML’s Manu-
facturing and Industrial Engineering
Division.
Mr. Toru Hasegawa commented:
“Nissan is having an increasingly sig-
nificant presence in India. We recently
added to our already broad product
range with the popular Sunny sedan
and announced that the all-new Evalia
will go into production in Chennai this
summer. We are targeting one lakh
vehicle sales in India by 2013 support-
ed by a tripling of our retail network.
And, from 2014, we will introduce
the Datsun brand focusing on quality-
driven products that are relevant to
our Indian customers. Achieving our
ambitions for India will be challeng-
ing, but I have every confidence that
the local management team we are
announcing today will build on the
significant achievements of their pred-
ecessors.”
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men at the helm
New CII (SR) office-bearers
Mr. G.V. Sanjay Reddy, Vice Chairman, GVK Industries Ltd.,
Hyderabad, and Mr. B. Santhanam, Founder Managing Direc-
tor, Saint Gobain Glass India Ltd., Chennai, have been elected
Chairman and Deputy Chairman respectively of CII Southern
Region for 2012-13.
Mr. Sanjay Reddy has been closely associated with CII and
was the Deputy Chairman of CII - Southern Region for 2011-
12. He was also the Chairman of the CII Infrastructure Council
during 2010-11. He has been active in many CII initiatives, in-
cluding the CII Young Indians, as the National Chairman during
2003-04.
Mr. Santhanam is an active member of CII and has held several
positions. He was the Chairman of the CII National Committee
on Skills and Human Resources during 2006-2010 and Chair-
man of Skills & Employability Sub-Committee of CII Southern
Region during 2011-12.
As the Founder Managing Director of Saint-Gobain Glass In-
dia, Mr. Santhanam enabled the company to achieve, in a short
time, quality, technical and market leadership position.
Mr. G.V. Sanjay Reddy
Mr. B. Santhanam