Mallika Srinivasan - Chairman & Managing Director

Mallika Srinivasan is a thought leader and a strategist, recognized for entrepreneurship, commitment to excellence and contribution to Indian agriculture machinery business and academia. She is presently the Chairman and Managing Director of TAFE – Tractors and Farm Equipment Limited, an INR 10,000 Crore tractor major incorporated in 1960 at Chennai, India. TAFE is today, the third largest tractor manufacturer in the world and the second largest in India by volumes, with an annual sale of over 180,000 tractors and presence in over 100 countries, including developed countries in Europe and the Americas. TAFE is also a significant shareholder in AGCO Corporation, USA - a US $11.1 billion tractor and agricultural equipment manufacturer.

She is on the Boards of AGCO Corporation - USA and TATA Steel Limited. She is additionally the Chairperson of the Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB), Department of Personnel & Training under the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pension, Government of India. She is also on the Global Board of U.S.-India Business Council (USIBC), a core member of the BRICS Women’s Business Alliance (BRICS WBA), member of the Executive Board of the Indian School of Business (ISB) - Hyderabad, member of the Governing Board of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) - Madras and a member of the Governing Body of Stella Maris College - Chennai.

In a span of 25 years, Mallika has established TAFE as a quality mass manufacturer of tractors, a lean and resilient organization that can effectively weather the cyclicality of the tractor business. With her special emphasis on product and process development, she has ensured significant expansion of TAFE's product range. She enhanced and leveraged the engineering strengths at TAFE to design, develop and manufacture a range of products for international markets, while simultaneously strengthening TAFE's partnership with AGCO for mutual growth, in both, the components and complete tractors businesses.