Invensys Rail Group (IRG) has strengthened its Indian operations with two major managerial appointments.They are new Managing Director Raviprakash Karcherla and new Head of Business Development Alok K Sinha.
With twenty five years of experience in the Indian rail industry, Karcherla has led IRG
In addition, Karcherla has a long and successful track record of managing both large-scale technology transfers and the introduction of various high technology products such as bit coded track circuits to the Indian railways market.
For his part, Sinha brings 19 years of experience in the rail transportation and mass transit sector.
For almost a decade he was Head of Business Development, Sales and Marketing with Union Switch & Signal (now Ansaldo STS) and pioneered the introduction of advanced technologies such as electronic interlocking and ETCS on Indian railways.
Sinha worked for GEC-General Signal Borehamwood UK on its Delhi projects in the 1990s and was responsible for securing the largest signalling and telecommunications contract ever awarded by Indian Railways.
As well as being one of the best-known faces in the world of signalling and telecommunications for Indian Railways, Sinha has huge project execution experience, including conceptualisation, architecting, installation, commissioning, and achieving Indian Railway product qualification.
The Invensys Rail Group
The Invensys Rail Group is a global leader in the design, manufacture, supply, installation, testing and commissioning of safety-related rail signalling and control systems and other rail signalling products for mainline, metro and freight railways.
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