Gurpratap Boparai appointed Managing Director of Skoda India

Skoda Auto India has appointed Gurpratap Boparai as its new Managing Director. He will take over the role on April 2, 2018 and will report directly to Skoda CEO Bernhard Maier. 

The 48-year old Gurpratap Boparai has many years of experience in the automobile industry. From 1991 to 1994, he worked with Tata Motors as a Senior Engineer. In 1995, he moved to Tata Cummins and held the post of Business Unit Leader. From 2000 to 2005, he headed the assembly unit at IVECO. He went on to join Fiat India as Vice President, Head of Powetrain Division in June 2007. Since 2012, he was holding the position of CEO of Fiat India. 

Gurpratap Boparai replaces Sudhir Rao who had resigned from the post of Managing Director of Skoda Auto India in May 2017.