Dr. Dinesh Kumar Likhi, has taken the charge of Chairman and Managing Director on 01-09-2015. He is about 56 years of age. He is a goldmedalist in Metallurgical Engineering from IIT Roorkee and obtained his ME in Industrial Metallurgy from NIT Rourkela, PG Diploma in Management from AIMA, MBA in corporate Strategy and Economic Policy from the Maastricht School of Management – the Netherlands and Ph.D in Strategic Alliance from IIT Delhi.
He started his career in Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) at Rourkela Steel Plant, in Production/Operation/Process control, and shifted to the corporate office of SAIL Delhi. He has joined MIDHANI in 2011 as Director (Production & Marketing). He has more than 35 years wide experience in automobile, Steel and special metal alloys Industry.
Dr. D K Likhi is a life member of Indian Institute of Metals, National Institute of Personnel Management, Indian Institute of Materials Management and Global Institute of Flexible system, Management.
His areas of interest are formulating and implementing strategy, organization of strategic interventions in the company using operations /project management concepts. He has published more than 25 articles in areas of technology and management.
He has been awarded the Jawahar Award for Outstanding PSU Executive in 1995, group awards for his contribution in turnaround of SAIL in 2000 and preparing growth plan for SAIL in 2005 and new business development project of Wagon Building in 2011. In addition, he has been recipient of Netherland Fellowship in 1999.