Tata Projects appoints Sukumar Hebbar as managing director and CEO

Former Larsen & Toubro executive Sukumar Hebbar succeeds Vinayak Pai as Tata Projects looks to expand its presence across infrastructure, data centres and industrial EPC.

Tata Projects Limited, the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) arm of the Tata Group, has appointed Sukumar Hebbar as its managing director (MD) and chief executive officer (CEO), with immediate effect.

 

Hebbar succeeds Vinayak Pai, who has led the company since 2022. The company, in a statement issued on Monday, said the appointment will further strengthen Tata Projects' leadership bench as it scales its presence across urban infrastructure, data centres and industrial EPC segments.

 

Hebbar joins Tata Projects after more than three decades at Larsen & Toubro, where he most recently served as senior vice-president and IC head of the transportation infrastructure business, overseeing roads, bridges, formation and railways.

 

 

An architecture graduate from the University of Mysore, Hebbar is also an alumnus of INSEAD's Advanced Management Programme in Organisational Leadership. He began his career in 1990 as a graduate engineer trainee.