Ms Rama Kirloskar currently serves as a Managing Director at Kirloskar Ebara Pumps Limited and has been appointed as a Joint Managing Director of Kirloskar Brothers Limited, from 3rd August 2021

She has been instrumental in the turnaround of KEPL into a debt-free company. Previously, she was General Manager and Head of the Product Portfolio Management at Kirloskar Brothers Limited, where she was responsible for driving the Go-to-market strategy, product value management and restructuring for the mass production business; material grade rationalization and streamlining for the foundry business and product rationalization for the made-to-order business.

Ms Rama Kirloskar pursued a double major in Mathematics and Biology at Bryn Mawr College, USA. She worked at Polaris Partners, a venture capital firm in the USA and Massachusetts Institute of Technology before joining KBL, her 130-year-old family company, in 2014.

She is also a member of the CSR Committee of the Company.

She also serves on the Board of Karad Projects and Motors Limited and Prakar Investments Private Limited, She is on the Executive Council of AGNIi (Accelerating Growth of New India’s Innovations), a programme of the Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India and a Mission under the Prime Minister’s Science Technology and Innovation Advisory Council (PM-STIAC).

She is one of the authors of a publication in the journal Cell (Robinson et al.,2015, Cell 162,1–12, doi:10.1016/j.cell.2015.06.057), in the paper titled “Structure-Guided Design of an Anti-Dengue Antibody Directed to a Non-Immunodominant Epitope”.