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Mr. I.V.Rao
Jt. Secretary & Chair, Membership Board

Inala Veerabhadra Rao, popularly known as IV Rao, completed his graduation in Mechanical Engineering from Osmania University and Masters in Mechanical Engineering from IIT-Kanpur and started his career with KG Khosla and co in 1979. He joined Maruti in 1983 and has spearheaded the R&D activities at Maruti Suzuki.

Mr. Rao is currently heading the Engineering vertical in Maruti Suzuki India Limited as Managing Executive officer. Mr. Rao looks after Engineering, Research, Design & Development function along with Quality Assurance and Service functions.

Professional Highlights:

In his 26 years career at Maruti Suzuki, Mr Rao has made significant contribution in different roles and positions in Product Development and Manufacturing Engineering functions. Under his leadership, Maruti R&D has grown from strength to strength and has developed capability for new model & facelift development, alternate fuel product development and new technology development.

Other activities:

With his vast experience of technology development and understanding of Indian context, Mr. Rao plays an important role and holds key positions in different industry/ government bodies, such as:

Executive Council member – SIAM (Society of Indian Automobile manufacturers)

Chairman, SIAM – Frontier Technologies Committee

Chairman, BIS (Bureau of Indian Standards) - TED-11 Committee

Vice Chairman, SAFE (Society for Automotive Fitness and Environment), an SIAM initiative

He has keen interest in SAEINDIA activities and holds the position of Senior Vice Chairman of SAE Northern India section.

Mr Rao is nominated as a Director in the Board of Directors of Maruti’s joint venture company Bharat Seats Limited..