Vivek Kamra
Managing Director
Business and Management
Alvarez and Marsal
Poland
Biography
Vivek Kamra is a Managing Director with A&M’s performance improvement and restructuring business in India. He has 27 years of experience in leadership positions in steel, automotive construction and logistics industries in India and South East Asia. Prior to joining A&M, Mr. Kamra served as the President – India Operations at JK Tyre and Industries Ltd., a leading tyre manufacturer in India. In this role, he led several transformative initiatives in operations, M&S, supply chain, human resources and communications with a strong focus on driving a technological shift in mindset and process management. He put in place a strong management and review structure to enable ambitious continuous performance improvement. Mr. Kamra served at Tata Steel for 25 years where he served as President & CEO of Natsteel Holdings Pte Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Tata Steel in South East Asia with operations in Singapore, Hong Kong, China, Vietnam, Australia, Malaysia and Thailand. He also served on the board of Tata Steel Thailand and Tata Steels Global Wires Business. In Singapore, Mr. Kamra also served on the National Workplace Safety and Health Council of Singapore. His first P&L role was as the Executive-In-Charge Tata Steel Tubes Division in Jamshedpur; the steel tube and pipes arm of the steel company which supplied components to the automotive industry, structural sections for specialized construction and conveyance pipes for the building and construction industry. Mr. Kamra also served as the Chief of Supply Chain (Customer Service Division) at Tata Steel and led a supply chain transformations at Tata Steel, Tubes Business, NatSteel and at JK Tyres.​ A graduate from Indian Institute of Technology Mumbai, in Metallurgical Engineering he has completed an Advanced Senior Management Program at the Centre of Executive Development (CEDEP), INSEAD Campus and a One Year Business Management Program from XLRI Jamshedpur. Vivek is also a Chevening Scholar awarded by the British Council of India for Young Managers a study program at Leeds University.
Research Interest
Vivek Kamra has 27 years of experience in Manufacturing and he served as President and CEO for over 12 years in Steel, Construction and Automotive and Logistics Industries. He led large scale transformations across business functions and served on the Workplace Safety and Health Council of Singapore, Board of NatSteel Holdings-Singapore, Tata Steel Thailand and Tata Steels Global Wires Division
