TRF MD Umesh Kumar Singh elected CII Jamshedpur Zonal Council Chairman

Diloo Parikh named vice chairman

Jamshedpur, Feb 23: Umesh Kumar Singh, managing director, TRF Ltd has been elected the Chairman of CII Jamshedpur Zonal Council for the year 2023-24 and Diloo Parikh, Director, Vaidehi Motors Pvt. Ltd has been elected the Vice-Chairman of the council.

Their names were announced at the CII Jamshedpur Zonal annual day held in Jamshedpur yesterday.

Umesh Kumar Singh (52) joined Tata Steel in 1993 as Graduate Trainee, post his B.E. (Mechanical) from BIT Mesra. He also holds a Diploma in Management studies from XIM, Bhubaneswar. Singh has over 21 years of experience in areas of procurement management, project management, supply chain management in the steel industry, TQM, Theory of Constraint, TBEM and Operations. He was appointed as Chief Project Procurement, Kalinganagar Projects, Tata Steel in 2011, where his responsibilities included execution of project procurement for greenfield steel plant, logistics operations, material management, import‐export shipments, as well as establishing and maintaining quality standard processes. In 2016, Mr. Singh was appointed as Chief Operations & New Initiatives, IBMD and was responsible recovery, reuse and recycling of all solid wastes generated at the Tata Steel Plant. In February 2020, he was appointed as the Executive Director of Tata Pigments Limited and thereafter, in June 2020, he was appointed as the Managing Director of Tata Pigments Limited. Since 1^st October, 2022, he has been serving as a Managing Director of TRF Limited. Singh has brought about significant change in areas that he has handled and has been a high performing leader with proven track record.

Diloo Parikh hails from Jamshedpur. Born and brought up in Jamshedpur and associated with family business of automobile dealerships of Mercedes-Benz passenger cars and Tata Motors commercial vehicles.

Diloo is associated with various associations including past Chairperson of F A D A (Federation of Automobile Dealers Association) – Jharkhand and Excom Member of APAI (Air Passengers Association of India). His Hobbies include collecting airplane models and favorite sport is Golf.