Mr. Vinayak Deshpande has been on the Board of UMPESL Limited as a Non-Executive Director since February 2012. He was the Managing Director of Tata Projects Limited (one of India’s fastest growing engineering and construction company) from July 2011 till July 2022. A graduate in Chemical Engineering (1980) from IIT, Kharagpur, he has over 38 years of work experience in different roles, in diverse industries; starting with the design and sales of boilers and captive power plants at Thermax, to Industrial Automation at Tata Honeywell. At Tata Honeywell, he was the Managing Director of its India business for five years till 2004- 05, wherein he grew the company’s operations pan India, to achieve about 300% growth. Thereafter he had a successful stint as the Executive President (Operations) of Tata Teleservices. During his tenure as the Managing Director of Tata Projects, the company achieved all-round excellence in its business of Industrial Infrastructure, including execution of Urban Metro system projects in four cities, Mumbai Trans Harbour Link project, a River Rejuvenation project and several High Rise building projects. Mr. Vinayak Deshpande was conferred as the `Infrastructure Person of the Year’ for 2016-17 by 'Construction World'. `Construction Times’ awarded him as the `Best Infra CEO’ of the year 2017