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TiE Kolkata Star Speaks with Mr. Samir Yajnik, Executive...
May 12, 2022
05:00 PM - 08:00 PM (Asia/Kolkata)
The Saturday Club, 7,Doctor Martin Luther King Sarani Mullick Bazar,Park Street area
Kolkata,India

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Topic: Scaling Startups: Applying lessons that never go out of fashion

Speaker : Mr. Samir Yajnik, Executive Director, Electrodrive Powertrain Solutions Pvt. Ltd.

Moderator : Mr. Abhishek Rungta, CEO, Indusnet Technologies

Speaker Profile : Samir Yajnik steps in and out of many worlds in a single day with rare elan, something that never ceases to amaze his admirers around the world.
Samir is a passionate green energy evangelist, a musician, a chess enthusiast, and a social worker, a familiar name in the global automotive industry as he is in Bollywood music circles.

The love of STEM and engineering proved to be a far stronger pull for Samir. He joined IIT Kanpur; later, shifting to Mumbai, he completed his BTech Mechanical Engineering degree at IIT Bombay. He went to complete his MS in Mech. Engineering from the University of Mississippi with a fellowship there. 

The entrepreneurship bug bit Samir when start-ups were not the norm, and the days of series A and series B funding were yet to emerge on the distant horizon. Samir plunged into the emerging world of software technology for product design and product lifecycle management and started his own company in Singapore. With his start-up, Samir spearheaded outsourced engineering through the application of technology - introducing knowledge-based engineering to many automotive OEMs. 

Samir worked with Tata Technologies for over 22 years as COO & President. With his base in London and later India, He was instrumental in positioning Tata Technologies as an automotive design and development powerhouse in the competitive North American market. He also spearheaded Tata Technologies' foray into aerospace engineering services in Europe, winning a customer base among some of the biggest names in aerospace manufacturing. Later, he also started the Construction & Heavy Engineering focused line of business for Tata Technologies.

His recent forays have been in the area of green energy initiatives, including providing guidance on standards in EV, EV infrastructure, battery technologies and alternative energy storage systems. 





  1. ​The Saturday Club,
    7,Doctor Martin Luther King Sarani Mullick Bazar,Park Street area,
    Kolkata, West Bengal, India


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