Tata Sons Director joins Hemas Board

Tata Sons Ltd Director, R. Gopalakrishnan has been appointed a non-executive Director of the Board of Hemas Holdings PLC. Gopalakrishnan is also Chairman of four Tata companies – Tata Auto-Component Systems Ltd., Rallis India Limited, Metahelix Life Sciences Private Ltd, and Advinus Therapeutics Private Ltd.

He also serves as Vice Chairman of Tata Chemicals, a Director of Tata Power and Tata Technologies and is an independent Director on the boards of the Indian subsidiaries of Akzo Nobel and Castrol India. Since 1967 Gopalakrishnan has worked as a professional manager. He worked for 31 years at Hindustan Unilever and 13 years in TATA.

He studied Physics at the University of Calcutta, and Engineering at IIT Kharagpur before joining Hindustan Unilever as a trainee. He has served Unilever as Chairman of Unilever Arabia, as Managing Director of Brooke Bond Lipton India, and as Vice Chairman of Hindustan Lever Limited.

Gopal is a past president of the All India Management Association.