Blue Star appoints Vir S Advani as MD

B Thiagarajan to take charge as Joint Managing Director

Air conditioning and refrigeration major Blue Star Ltd said that its Board of Directors has appointed Vir S Advani as Managing Director and B Thiagarajan as Joint Managing Director, with effect from April 1, 2016. The current Managing Director, Satish Jamdar, will retire from the Board on March 31, 2016.

Vir S Advani has been with the Blue Star group of companies since 2000. After managing independent assignments in associate companies, he joined Blue Star Ltd in 2007. He was appointed as Executive Director in 2010 and he was instrumental to turnaround the troubled Electro-Mechanical Projects business, said the company. He has also been leading the company's international business, and involved in the current extensive restructuring of the Group companies.

B Thiagarajan, who joined Blue Star 17 years ago and progressively took charge of after sales service, marketing, manufacturing and R&D of the AC&R products business, was elevated to the Board as Executive Director in 2013.