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Essar Steel India today announced the appointment of Firdose A Vandrevala as the executive vice chairman effective August 12, 2013.
Vandrevala joins Essar Steel from HIRCO, a construction & real estate major, where he was the Chairman & Managing Director.
Vandrevala was associated with the Tata Group for over three decades, where he held various leadership positions, last being the Managing Director of Tata Power and Chairman of Tata Teleservices. He was the Deputy Managing Director of Tata Steel before moving to Tata Power. He played a significant role in the growth of Tata Steel. From Tata Group, he joined Motorola India as the Chairman.
He holds a BTech Honors degree from Institute of Technology, Kharagpur and is a Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management from the XLRI, Jamshedpur.
