Tata Steel, India’s largest integrated private steel manufacturer today announced the appointment of Mr. H M Nerurkar as Chief Operating Officer (Steel) of the company, with effect from September 1st 2007. In his new role, Mr. Nerurkar will report to the Deputy Managing Director (Steel).

Mr. Nerurkar is a graduate from the College of Engineering, Pune University and has completed his Business Management from CEDEP in France. He joined Tata Steel in 1972 in the R&D Division and has worked in various areas of steel making rising to the position of Deputy General Manager – Steel & Primary Mills. He then moved to the marketing function in 1997 as Director of Marketing before being appointed as General Manager – Marketing. Mr. Nerurkar was appointed as Vice President – Flat Products in 2002 after which he moved on to be Vice President – Kalinganagar Project & Technology in 2006, a position that he currently holds.

Additionally, Mr. Nerurkar is also on the Board of TM International Logistics Ltd., Tata Bluescope Company Ltd., and Tata Ryerson Ltd. as Director. In his illustrious career of over 35 years, Mr. Nerurkar has won many awards including the Tata Gold Medal in 2004, SAIL Gold Medal in 1989 and the Visvesaraiya Award in 1988.

About Tata Steel

Established in 1907 as Asia’s first integrated private sector steel company, Tata Steel today is the world sixth largest steel producer with geographic footprints in India, South East Asia, UK and Europe. With the recent acquisition of Corus Limited, the combined enterprise has a pro forma crude steel capacity of 25.6 million tonnes with over 84,000 employees across the four continents.