PESB picks Sanjay Swarup as next CMD of CONCOR

NEW DELHI: The Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) has picked Sanjay Swarup for the role of Chairman and Managing Director of Container Corporation of India Ltd (CONCOR) Swarup is currently Director (InternationalMarketingandOperations)atIndia’sbiggest rail hauler of containers. Swarup was selected from a short listofeightcandidates,sixofwhomwerefromCONCOR.

Sanjay Swarup has been recommended for the post of Chairman and Managing Director, CONCOR, the PESB saidonitswebsiteafteraninterviewheldonWednesday

PESB’srecommendationwillhavetobesignedoffbythe Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC). Swarup is an Indian Railways Traffic Service (IRTS) officer from the 1990batch.Inacareerspanningthreedecades,Swaruphas held assignments in the public sector and Government. He had a four-year stint with Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL) before moving to Indian Railways and worked in areas such as operations, commercial, safety and informationtechnology

In CONCOR, he has looked after operation and management of dry ports, international marketing, commercial and operations

He has been involved in the designing of dry ports and multi modal logistics parks, as well as strategic planning functions in thecompany.

Swarup holds a B. E. (Hons) –Electronics and Communications Engineering – from IIT Roorkee and PGDM (Public Policy andManagement)fromIIMBangalore

He is also a life member of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport, Asian Institute of Transport Development, Centre for Transportation Research and ManagementandAllIndiaManagementAssociation.

V Kalyana Rama, the incumbent CMD, will set down from the role on 30 September CONCOR has been lined up for privatisation by the government but the formal process isyettostart.