Cholamandalam MS General Insurance Co. Ltd., announced the retirement of S. S. Gopalarathnam as the Managing Director. V. Suryanarayanan, currently President and COO, will take over as the Managing Director of Cholamandalam MS General Insurance Co. Ltd., effective 1st July 2020.
S. S. Gopalarathnam retires as Managing Director of Cholamandalam MS General Insurance Co. Ltd. on 30th June 2020 after a long and distinguished career spanning an incredible 41 years. He joined the Murugappa Group in 1979 as a Management Trainee at TI Cycles and served in various capacities in the finance and marketing functions across TI Cycles, TI Miller and TPI till 1998, when he was made the General Manager – Tubes.
Consequent to the retirement of S. S. Gopalarathnam, V Suryanarayanan, currently President and COO will take over as the Managing Director of Cholamandalam MS General Insurance Co. Ltd., effective 1st July 2020, the Company mentioned in its press release.
V. Suryanarayanan is a Chartered Accountant and Company Secretary and has been in the financial services sector of the Murugappa Group for the past 24 years of which the first 10 years were in Cholamandalam Investments and Finance. He moved over to Chola MS in 2006 as CFO and has since then held other positions of Head of Claims, Underwriting, Reinsurance etc., and became the President and Chief Operating Officer in April 2019. He combines rich experience in retail financial services, a deep understanding of general insurance and a prudent approach to balancing risk with growth. In 2002, Gopalarathnam had started Cholamandalam General Insurance Company Ltd. as a founding member.
Chola MS General Insurance Company Limited is a Joint Venture between the Murugappa Group and Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Company Limited, Japan.
Chola MS offers a wide range of insurance products that include Motor, Health, Property, Accident, Engineering, Liability, Marine, Travel and Crop insurance for individuals and corporates. Chola MS currently has 135 branches and over 40,000 intermediaries across the country.
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