Porsche India Director, Pavan shetty resigns

Pavan Shetty, Director Porsche India has resigned from his position on July 1, 2020 citing personal reasons. In the interim, Ashish Kaul – Head of Sales, Porsche India will assume responsibility for day-to-day operations at Porsche India and will report directly to Mr Gurpratap Boparai, Managing Director Skoda Auto Volkswagen India for Strategic initiatives. An announcement on the permanent replacement will be made in due course of time.

Pavan Shetty, Director Porsche India has resigned from his position on July 1, 2020 citing personal reasons. In the interim, Ashish Kaul – Head of Sales, Porsche India will assume responsibility for day-to-day operations at Porsche India and will report directly to Mr Gurpratap Boparai, Managing Director Skoda Auto Volkswagen India for Strategic initiatives. An announcement on the permanent replacement will be made in due course of time.

A press release from the Volkswagen Group in India says that Pavan resigned due to personal reasons. Pavan was the CEO from 2016. Before that, he has worked in the Volkswagen Group here with Lamborghini, spearheading its operations. While it is unclear where Pavan is headed to next, his experience in the auto industry (having worked with Ford as well as Tata Motors in the past) might mean he could be part of some other auto company in the future. Porsche India has in the meanwhile appointed Ashish Kaul, sales head, as the interim CEO. A new permanent CEO will be appointed soon, points out the release.

Pavan has been instrumental in bringing new products from Porsche`s global line-up to the country. Though he started his career at HSBC in 2000, but has spent a good part of two decades in the automotive industry. He has worked with companies like Castrol, Tata Motors, Ford before joining the Volkswagen group as the India Head of Italian carmaker, Lamborghini in 2012. Though his responsibility there was business operations in the country, it was in 2016, that Pavan moved on to Porsche India. 

Porsche India is on a roll having introduced many new models this year. The brand might also bring its electric car, the Taycan soon. Given that Audi India will launch the e-tron SUV and even Mercedes-Benz is ready with the EQC brand, the Porsche Taycan will be a good fit. As it is the Volkswagen Group is keen on petrol-hybrid vehicles and pure electric cars. Of course, this will be adopted only gradually and not immediately. Given that Porsche cars are high-end, customers should be able to adapt to this quickly. The developing infrastructure will definitely help them in getting a hold.

While it is unclear who the new CEO of Porsche India will be, it is apparent that he/she has huge shoes to fill. The team at Porsche India will definitely miss Pavan Shetty.


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