AutoNxt Automation, India’s First electric tractor venture in the wake of launching its Electric self-driving tractors, has recently boosted its Board and Founding team with Experienced industry professionals, Pankaj Goyal & I.V. Rao. Pankaj Goyal is now onboard as a Co-Founder and COO and I.V. Rao as the Board Director of AutoNxt Automation.
Pankaj Goyal has joined as the Co-Founder and the COO as AutoNxt was looking for an experienced professional executive to come on board to help them go from the R&D stage to the production stage. That’s where Pankaj Goyal’s joining the company helps AutoNxt Automation and its young team. The deadly combination of a young, dynamic founder and an experienced industry professional joining as co-founders helps the company build innovative, advanced products in a very efficient manner to make them a reality.
Goyal is a seasoned leader, having led senior roles in big corporate across Indian and European countries.
I.V. Rao is a Visiting “Senior Fellow” in the Centre for Sustainable mobility group of TERI. Rao has Over 36 years of experience in the auto industry and overall 46 years of rich professional experience. In an accomplished career at Maruti Suzuki spanning 36 years, he made significant contributions in different roles in the areas of Technology Transfer, New Product Planning & Development, Component Localization, Quality Assurance & Service and Manufacturing Engineering functions.
Under his leadership, Maruti Suzuki R&D has grown from strength to strength and has developed the capability for new model development, alternate fuel product development and new technology development. His most significant contributions have been the establishment of world-class R&D with a proving ground and test centre at Rohtak and the launch of new products like New Alto, Alto K10 and Eeco designed and developed by Maruti Engineers in India.- It’s important to note that Maruti Suzuki R&D is the only R&D centre of Suzuki Motor Corporation outside of Japan.