By Paras Ramoutar, IANS
Port-of-Spain : India’s Essar group has appointed Jatinder Mehra as chief executive of its Trinidad and Tobago steel arm, Essar Caribbean.
A veteran in the steel industry, Mehra brings more than 45 years of experience in various capacities in reputed public and private sector steel companies such as Steel Authority of India Ltd. and Rashtriya Ispat Nigam, Vishakhapatnam.
He joined the Essar group in 1997 and served in various capacities including managing director of Essar Steel, and resident director, corporate affairs.
Mehra graduated in chemical engineering from Birla Institute of Technology, Ranchi, and has completed an advanced management programme from Oxford University.
Essar is setting up a two million-tonne steel plant at Claxton bay, 50 km from here, at a cost of $1.7 billion.