A diversified professional
An M Tech in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Chennai, Rajesh C Mangal started his career in R&D and after a brief stint in the design function, moved over to sales and marketing. He has worked in sales, marketing, product management and profit centre management at various levels. Out of his career spanning over 28 years, the first 14 years were with companies in the construction and mining industry such as Bharat Earth Movers, JCB and TIL. The past 14 years have been spent with commercial vehicle players such as Volvo, Force Motors (MAN Trucks business), AMW and Mahindra & Mahindra (Truck and Bus Division).

Currently he is the Senior Vice President - Sales & Marketing with Mahindra & Mahindra (Truck and Bus Division) looking after sales, marketing, aftermarket, product planning, institutional business, retail & channel finance and dealer development functions.

On the industry trends he feels that the construction and mining sector has the potential to propel India to double-digit growth. Such a growth can leave the construction and mining equipment industry gasping for production capacity. This industry needs to rise up to the occasion and invest in capacity building. In the process it will do good for itself as well as the nation at large.