Bombardier Transportation appointed Rajeev Joisar managing director for India. In this leadership role, Joisar will be responsible for the end-to-end mandate of business development and sales through to project execution and services.

“For almost two decades, Rajeev Joisar has been a trusted leader and proven business partner for Bombardier and our customers in India, and he is a great addition to our senior team,” Andrew DeLeone, president of the Europe, Middle East Africa and India region at Bombardier Transportation, said. “As the managing director for India, Rajeev will nurture and further develop our valuable customer relationships, while growing a sustainable business in India.”

Joisar has held various roles with increasing responsibility during his career at Bombardier, and he has experience managing complex multi-site cross-divisional projects. He also has had management positions in operations, strategic sales, project management and bid management. Most recently, his direction and leadership helped the India team to win two new contracts with the combined value of more than €500 million ($566.47 million). The first was signed in May 2020 for the Delhi-Meerut Regional Rapid Transit System, which includes 210 commuter and intracity cars, and the second was signed in the first week of July 2020 for the Agra-Kanpur Metro Project, which includes both rolling stock and signalling.

With around 1,500 employees, Bombardier Transportation in India operates a railway vehicle manufacturing site and bogie assembly hall in Savli, near Vadodara, Gujarat. The company also has a propulsion system manufacturing facility in Maneja and a train control and management system (TCMS) center at Atladara in Vadodara, as well as a rail control solutions center for project delivery and product engineering. There is an information services India hub in Gurugram, Delhi NCR and an engineering center in Hyderabad.

Bombardier Transportation is a global mobility company that provides solutions ranging from trains to sub-systems and signalling to turnkey transport systems, e-mobility technology and data-driven maintenance services.