Pawan Kumar Goenka is an Indian businessman, and the retired Managing Director[1]ofMahindra & Mahindra, an Indian multinational automobile manufacturing corporation headquartered in Mumbai, and the chairman of SsangYong Motor Company in Korea. He is currently the Chairman of INSPACE, a part of India's Space Program.[2] He is also the present Chairman of the Board of Governors of IIT Madras.[3]
Pawan Kumar Goenka
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| Alma mater | IIT Kanpur (BTech) Cornell University (PhD) |
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| Spouse | Mamta Goenka |
Goenka did his schooling in Shree jain Vidyalaya, Kolkata, and then earned his BTech in mechanical engineering from IIT Kanpur and PhD from Cornell University. He attended a six-week Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School. He worked at General Motors R&D Centre in Detroit, U.S., from 1979 to 1993. Thereafter he joined Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd., as general manager (R&D).[4]
Goenka joined Mahindra in October 1993 as the general manager, R&D. He was appointed as the chief operating officer for the automotive sector in April 2003. In September 2005, he became the president of the automotive sector and by April 2010 he was the president of the automotive and farm equipment sectors. "He was appointed to the post of Executive Director of Mahindra & Mahindra in 2013 and in April 2014, he took over the additional responsibility of the two wheeler business. In Nov 2016 Dr Pawan Kumar Goenka was elevated to the post of Managing Director of M&M."[5]
Goenka is the past president of SIAM, Society of Automotive Engineers India, and ARAI Governing Council, and was a board member of National Skills Development Corporation (NSDC) from Aug.2013 to Aug.2014. He is also a national council member of CII, and chairman of board of governors of IIT Madras.[6] .[7] In September 2021, Goenka was selected by the ACC as the chairperson of INSPACe.[8]
Goenka is married to Mamta Goenka who "volunteers her time to counsel cancer patients and help them receive proper treatment and post-operative care".[5]