Mr. Bhaskar Bhat

Managing Director

Mr. Bhaskar Bhat, B.Tech, PGDM has been a Managing Director of Titan Company Limited since April 1, 2002 and also serves as its Chief Executive Officer and Executive Non Independent Director. Since 1983, Mr. Bhat has been associated at the Tata Watch project that later became Titan Watches and is now Titan Industries. He started his career as a Management Trainee at Godrej & Boyce Manufacturing in 1978. After spending five years at Godrej, he joined the Tata Watch Project initiated by Tata Press.

He has been the Chairman at Tata Ceramics Ltd. since March 5, 2012. He is a Member of Advisory Board at Incube Ventures Pvt Ltd. He serves as a Director of Virgin Mobile India Limited, Titan International Holdings BV; Titan Watches & Jewellery International (Asia Pacific) Pte Ltd; Titan Holdings Ltd; Titan Properties Ltd., and Titan International Marketing Ltd. He has been a Non Independent Non Executive Director at Trent Ltd. since September 27, 2010. He has been an Independent Director of Bosch Ltd since January 1, 2013.

He is a Member of the Governing Council of the T.A.Pai Management Institute, Manipal and the SDM Institute of Management and Development, Mysore. He has received the Distinguished Alumnus Award in IIT Madras in 2008. Mr. Bhat has completed his Post Graduate Diploma in Management from Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad in 1978 and has received a B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras in 1976.