Soumitra Bhattacharya

Soumitra Bhattacharya
CEO & Director, Indian Foundation for Quality Management (IFQM)
Chairman & Director, Bosch Limited
Former CEO & Managing Director, Bosch Ltd. | Former President, Bosch Group India

Soumitra Bhattacharya, with a rich tenure of over 28 years at the Bosch Group, has exemplified diversified leadership across multiple geographies and functions. A Chartered Accountant by profession, his journey scaled from being the Vice President of Commercial Functions at Bosch's Nashik and Jaipur plants to General Manager at the prestigious Feuerbach Plant in Germany. His strategic foresight during 2005-2009 leading Bosch Turkey earned the distinguished EFQM award win in 2008. Following this, Soumitra steered Bosch Ltd. as the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) from 2011 to 2016 and then as Joint Managing Director (2012-2016) and later as Managing Director (2017-2023) and as the Regional President for the Bosch Group in India until his retirement on June 30, 2023.

His commitment to industry excellence continued post-retirement when he assumed the role of CEO and Director at the Indian Foundation for Quality Management (IFQM) in July 2023, an initiative driven by captains of industry centered around Quality, Excellence, and Innovation.

Soumitra continues his association with Bosch in India as the Chairman of the Board of Bosch Ltd (Non-Executive), as Independent Director of Asian Paints Ltd., as an Additional Director (Non-Executive Independent) of Tata Elxsi Ltd. And as a Nominee Director of Tata Indian Institute of Skills.

Soumitra’s professional voyage, spanning 40 years, began even before his time at Bosch, with key management roles at TATA Steel, IPITATA, INDAL, and as one of the founding members for Tanishq of Titan Company Limited.

Concurrently, he has been a significant part of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), chairing the Karnataka State Council for CII in India (2013-2014), co-chairing the CII-National Skills Committee (2017-2019), chairing the CII National Committee on MNCs (2020-2023), and contributing passionately towards business excellence and corporate agility from 2013 to 2023. Soumitra is currently the Chair of the CII Institute of Quality Advisory Council for the year 2024-25.

He has spoken extensively in India and across the world on various platforms – Social and Corporate, on topics which he is passionate – Quality, Business Excellence, Innovation, and Business Strategy.