New Tata Technologies' Growth Strategy, Leadership Changes For Software-Defined Era Announced

Product engineering and digital services company Tata Technologies has announced its refreshed growth strategy and key leadership changes, aimed at reinforcing its team with a customer-centric approach. This realignment enhances will support the company’s automotive, industrial heavy machinery, and aerospace clients. 

The global engineering, research & development (ER&D) market presents long-term opportunities, with a total addressable market (TAM) of $260-$300 billion across automotive, industrial heavy machinery (IHM), and aerospace. The outsourced ER&D market, currently valued at $60-$70 billion, is growing at 10-12% CAGR, fueled by increasing demand for software-driven solutions, reduced time-to-market pressures, and specialised engineering talent.

For a software-defined future, Tata Technologies is focusing on four pillars: 

• Deepening Engagements With Top Clients: Strengthening relationships with Tata Motors, JLR and leading global OEMs & Tier-1 suppliers through account teams comprising client partners, delivery partners, and transformation partners. This move aims to offer better responsiveness and co-engineering capabilities, and enable faster, tailored solutions. 

• Accelerating Time-To-Market: Delivering full-vehicle engineering, embedded systems, smart manufacturing solutions, and hardware-software convergence to enhance connectivity, autonomy, and IoT-driven ecosystems.

• Expanding Embedded & Software-Driven Capabilities: Scaling AI, digital services, and software-defined vehicle (SDV) innovation to integrate mechanical and embedded systems.

• Transforming Go-To-Market Approach: Institutionalising large-deal capabilities, sales enablement, solution accelerators, and strategic partnerships with product software and semiconductor players while driving AI-enabled global delivery. 

To accelerate the execution of the strategy, the company is making the following changes:

• Anish Raghunandan appointed as president and client partner – TML group. Anish will lead Tata Technologies’ engagement with Tata Motors and Jaguar Land Rover. 

• Nachiket Paranjpe will continue to grow the automotive business outside the TML Group while driving the embedded software and SDV business. 

• Keith Matthews is elevated to head sales – aerospace business. Keith will focus on scaling Tata Technologies’ aerospace business, unlocking opportunities in airframe, propulsion, manufacturing, MRO, and digital transformation, and strengthening partnerships with clients like Airbus.

• Komal Chhabra is head sales - IHM business and will spearhead the vertical.

With investments in AI, embedded software, cloud-enabled smart manufacturing, and full-lifecycle SDV solutions, Tata Technologies will strengthen its portfolio of solutions to help its clients with faster product launches, reduced development costs, and innovations that help them win in an evolving marketplace.

Speaking about the changes, Warren Harris, CEO and MD of Tata Technologies, said, “By strengthening our leadership team and sharpening our focus on embedded software, SDVs, aerospace, and IHM, we are positioning ourselves to drive the next phase of growth for Tata Technologies and our customers. Our shift towards an IP-led, value-driven approach will enhance customer outcomes, accelerate premiumisation, and engineer a better future for all our stakeholders including the shareholders.”