Upendra Gadre

Upendra is an Engineering graduate from College of Engg Pune and then completed MBA Finance from Symbiosis Pune. Also completed CFA from ICFAI Hyderabad. He has a work experience of more than 28 years in the Manufacturing industry in Finance domain cutting across all functions of Finance. He has worked with Grindwell Norotn, DGP Hinoday (now part of Mahindra Group), Garware Technical Fibres Ltd, and Cummins India.

For the last 16 years, Upendra has been working with Tata Autocomp as Group Vice President – Finance and CFO – Legal Entity. At Tata Autocomp, he also worked in corporate role and was CFO of Tata Hendrickson and Tata Green Batteries. He is responsible for entire Groups Accounts, Taxation, and Treasury; having turnover of more than 5000 Cr with 12 companies and 45+ plant locations. He is also responsible for Group Budgets, Forecasting, planning and reporting; as well as for Tata Autocomp Legal entity as CFO.

He has established shared service function for accounts, treasury and Taxation. Account shared service is also for overseas units having presence in Sweden, Poland, USA, Mexico and China. He plays an active role in advising the business units on pricing policy and strategies to improve the contribution ratios. He has also initiated group automation the process once again aimed at cost optimization and benefits in consistency and compliance. Apart from Finance domain, he has an experience in handling green field project and operational functions like Stores/ Production Planning, Logistics and Systems Development.