Leadership Team

Ravi Uppal

Chairman & Managing Director

An eminent business leader, Mr. Uppal has combined erudition, experience and enterprise to build winning organisations in the engineering and infrastructure space over 36 years around the world. At SISCOL, he has an overriding mission: to ensure excellence across markets. Before founding SISCOL, he served as Managing Director & Group CEO of Jindal Steel & Power Limited and Chief Executive Director (Power) and Whole-Time Director, L&T. In the ABB Group, he served as President of Global Market, Member of Group Executive Committee, President, Asia Pacific Region and Chairman & Managing Director, India. He was also the Founding Managing Director of Volvo India.

Mr. Uppal is a decorated leader. Among his glittering laurels are Knight of the Royal Order of the Polar Star awarded by the King of Sweden in recognition of his invaluable services to the Kingdom of Sweden; Distinguished Alumni, IIT, Delhi; the Marketing Award of the Institute of Marketing Management, India and the `India’s Best of the Best’ title awarded by the Smart Manager magazine. He holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the IIT, Delhi. He is also an alumnus of the Indian IIM, Ahmedabad and the Wharton Business School, USA. Mr. Uppal is actively involved in several industry forums & academic institutions and has a keen interest in social and community development initiatives.

K Rajagopal

Director (Finance)

A strategist and policy-maker, Kannabiran Mr. Rajagopal was Group Chief Financial Officer and Whole-Time Director at Jindal Steel & Power Limited, before joining SISCOL. He was also the Chief Financial Officer at ABB India.

Mr. Rajagopal’s rich repertoire includes stints as Regional Chief Financial Officer (South Asia) the ABB Group, Chief Financial Officer and Whole-Time Director, ABB Switzerland and Group Chief Accountant for the ABB Group Worldwide at Zurich, Switzerland.

Mr. Rajagopal comes with over 35 years of experience in finance, most of it at ABB where he started out in February 1991 as a Business Unit Finance Controller and went on to serve as Divisional Finance Controller and Head of Corporate Finance, responsible for the Finance, Accounts, Secretarial, Legal, IT, Real Estate and Administrative functions. He was also in the thick of several ABB M&As and Divestments in India and abroad.

Through his career, Mr. Rajagopal has sought to improve profitability through strategic and highly efficient business portfolio evaluation and system enhancements. A commerce graduate, Mr. Rajagopal is also a Fellow Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.

Ranjan Sharma

Director

Mr. Ranjan Sharma comes with a diverse portfolio of experience in the Indian corporate sector, spanning over 32 years. A Cost Accountant, Company Secretary and Law graduate by qualification, Sharma was the CFO of Molins of India Ltd, a subsidiary of the British Group BAT/Molins, headquartered in London. His last stint was as Finance Director with the Oswal Group, where he was instrumental in the implementation of mega-sized chemical and fertiliser projects.

Sharma has the distinction of having conceived, financed and implemented state-of-the-art plants of international scale with investments exceeding USD 1 billion. Besides, he was the driving force behind a much acclaimed rural telephony project that was focused on providing value-added services to Indian farmers through mobile phones.

Aman Choudhari

Director

Aman Choudhari is Managing Director at the Surin group flagship Surin Automotive (P) Ltd, (SAPL). After completing his Mechanical Engineering from the Bangalore University and his post-graduation in Industrial Engineering from USA, he joined his family-run Surin Group of companies. Under his stewardship his company has grown from Rs 11 crores in 2003 to Rs 1030 Crores. Mr. Aman Choudhari was Chairman of CII Karnataka, 2019-20. He is now an elected member of CII southern Region Council.

Zarksis J Parabia

Director

As a qualified D.M.E, Mr. Zarksis J Parabia specialises in transportation of super heavy equipment, material management and erection of power transformers across India. He has around 20 years of industry experience

Siddharth Shah

Director

An engineer with an MBA degree in Finance, Mr. Siddharth Shah is an expert in Investment Management. He has over 10 years of experience in investment profiles at MK Ventures, Reliance Capital, ICRA & Kotak Securities, etc.

Rajesh Laddha

Director

A Chartered Accountant and an MBA from the University of Chicago (USA), Mr Ladha brings over 25 years of business leadership experience to the distinguished SISCOL board. Until recently he was Executive Director and Group Chief Financial Officer at the Piramal Group. Until recently he was CEO at Shriram Capital, a company held by the Shriram Group with a combined AUM of Rs 1.5 lakh crores. Prior to joining the Piramal Group, he played leadership roles in Coca Cola India, Vodafone India Limited and Allergan India Private Limited.

Ravi Uppal

Chairman & Managing Director

An eminent business leader, Mr. Uppal has combined erudition, experience and enterprise to build winning organisations in the engineering and infrastructure space over 36 years around the world. At SISCOL, he has an overriding mission: to ensure excellence across markets.

Before founding SISCOL, he served as Managing Director & Group CEO of Jindal Steel & Power Limited and Chief Executive Director (Power) and Whole-Time Director, L&T. In the ABB Group, he served as President of Global Market, Member of Group Executive Committee, President, Asia Pacific Region and Chairman & Managing Director, India. He was also the Founding Managing Director of Volvo India.

Uppal is a decorated leader. Among his glittering laurels are Knight of the Royal Order of the Polar Star awarded by the King of Sweden in recognition of his invaluable services to the Kingdom of Sweden; Distinguished Alumni, IIT, Delhi; the Marketing Award of the Institute of Marketing Management, India and the ‘India’s Best of the Best’ title awarded by the Smart Manager magazine. He holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the IIT, Delhi. He is also an alumnus of the Indian IIM, Ahmedabad and the Wharton Business School, USA. Uppal is actively involved in several industry forums & academic institutions and has a keen interest in social and community development initiatives.

K Rajagopal

Director (Finance)

A strategist and policy-maker, Kannabiran Mr. Rajagopal was Group Chief Financial Officer and Whole-Time Director at Jindal Steel & Power Limited, before joining Siscol. He was also the Chief Financial Officer at ABB India.

Mr. Rajagopal’s rich repertoire includes stints as Regional Chief Financial Officer (South Asia) the ABB Group, Chief Financial Officer and Whole-Time Director, ABB Switzerland and Group Chief Accountant for the ABB Group Worldwide at Zurich, Switzerland.

Mr. Rajagopal comes with over 35 years of experience in finance, most of it at ABB where he started out in February 1991 as a Business Unit Finance Controller and went on to serve as Divisional Finance Controller and Head of Corporate Finance, responsible for the Finance, Accounts, Secretarial, Legal, IT, Real Estate and Administrative functions. He was also in the thick of several ABB M&As and Divestments in India and abroad. Through his career, Mr. Rajagopal has sought to improve profitability through strategic and highly efficient business portfolio evaluation and system enhancements. A commerce graduate, Mr. Rajagopal is also a Fellow Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.