Leadership

Anant Talaulicar is a member on the Board of KPIT Technologies, as an Independent Director. He was a member of the Cummins Inc. Global Leadership team from August 2009 to October 2017, the Chairman and Managing Director of the Cummins Group in India from March 2004 through October 2017 and the President of the Cummins Inc. Components Group from 2010 through 2014. He has also served as the Managing Director of Tata Cummins Pvt. Ltd., a 50:50 joint venture between Cummins Inc. and Tata Motors Limited. He has chaired the boards of four other Cummins legal entities in India as well.

Anant began his career with Cummins in the U.S. in 1986 as an intern and subsequently held several positions both in the United States and in India.  Having worked in the U.S. for 16 years as a financial analyst, manufacturing engineer, project manager, product manager, strategy manager, he took upon various general management positions thereafter. He returned to India in March 2003 as Joint Managing Director of Cummins India Limited. He has served as a member of the Confederation of Indian Industry, Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers and Automobile Components Manufacturers Association in the past.

Anant has a Master's degree in Engineering from the University of Michigan and an MBA from Tulane University in 1987. He earned his Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from Mysore University, India.