Mumbai, Nov. 11 -- The Board of Ashok Leyland has inducted Saugata Gupta as Independent Director and Vipin Sondhi as Director. Saugata is the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Marico Limited. He is credited with transforming Marico into a high performing business, responsible for driving growth and operations both in India and across international markets.

In August 2019, the Hinduja Group had announced that Vipin Sondhi has been brought into the Group's leadership team to focus on consolidation, growth and future strategy of Hinduja Group's global automotive portfolio.

He will formally join the Hinduja Group later in November from JCB, where he is the MD & CEO, India, South East Asia & Pacific and a member of their Global ...