Shailesh ChandraTata Motors has announced a management rejig with key changes in senior roles. India’s leading automaker has appointed Shailesh Chandra as its Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, effective October 1, 2025. His term will run for three years, until September 30, 2028. Along with this, the company announced a new CEO of Jaguar Land Rover, CFO and CV business head.
Chandra will also join the board as an Additional Director and take charge as a Key Managerial Personnel. He currently heads Tata Passenger Electric Mobility Ltd, the company’s electric vehicle subsidiary, and will continue in that role alongside his new responsibilities.
Girish Wagh is now going to lead the Commercial Vehicles business as Managing Director & CEO effective October 1, 2025, as per company’s regulatory filings. Along with this, CEO Guenter Karl Butschek will join the commercial side once the company would have its demerger.
As part of the transition, the Maharashtra-based company announced the step down of P B Balaji as the Group Chief Financial Officer effective from November 17, 2025. ETAuto earlier reported that he is set to join Jaguar Land Rover Automotive in the UK as Chief Executive Officer on the same day. Balaji will now be serving as non-Independent Director on the Board of the Company from his date of joining as he assumed his role in JLR.
To fill the finance role, Tata Motors has also announced the appointment of Dhiman Gupta as the Chief Financial Officer of the company from effective November 17, 2025.
These leadership changes will be critical in shaping its future growth as the company has received a green signal from National Company Law Tribunal to split its passenger and commercial vehicle businesses into separate listed entities.
