Subramanian Chidambaran — CEO

Subramanian leads strategy and sustainability for Cummins in India. In this role, he is responsible for identifying and driving strategic opportunities that help achieve the vision for Cummins in India and steer the company’s future roadmap, with a focus on Cummins’ ‘Destination Zero’ strategy that aims for net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. He spearheads the sustainability initiatives for the company in India. He sponsors Cummins' community initiatives on Water (providing access to water for drinking and other purposes) and supports initiatives on Education. At the Cummins global level, as the Director of Global Corporate Strategy, he supports the Cummins leaders and leadership teams across Cummins Inc. to address strategic challenges at a global level including global ESG strategy through leading strategic projects. Subramanian has a passion for leadership building and training leaders on strategic thinking. He is an active member of the CII-CSO Forum and drives strategy-capability-building for leaders both inside and outside Cummins. Prior to joining Cummins, Subramanian led strategy and digitalization for the Distribution Business of Siemens Ltd . for nearly five years, and took care of global strategic projects, cost reduction programs, portfolio digitalization, process excellence, and more. Before that, he worked at McKinsey and Siemens Management Consulting for over six years, where he spearheaded transformation programs and developed business and corporate strategies for players across sectors (Logistics, Cement, Oil and Gas Conglomerates, Engineering) and across functions, primarily in Strategy, Operations and Sales & Marketing. He was also part of the team that developed the McKinsey report on “India: From Poverty to Empowerment”. Subramanian holds a post graduate diploma in Management from IIM Lucknow (Operations and Strategy specialization) and a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from VJTI, Mumbai. He has several national and international papers to his credit, along with articles on Operations and Strategy. Beyond work, Subramanian has been pursuing study of Sanskrit language and Carnatic music (since age of 13) as his two key passions. He completed his Masters in Sanskrit (MA Sanskrit specialized in Vedanta) in 2017 and is currently pursuing his PhD in 'Indic leadership' from Chinmaya Vishwa Vidyapeeth. As a passionate Indic scholar, he has authored several articles on various subjects and also gives performances combining Indian music, Sanskrit, Indic philosophy, Indic tradition etc. making it a delight for the listeners.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a strategic leader in sustainability and corporate strategy across diverse industries.

Location: Pune, Maharashtra, India

Experience: 17 yrs 8 mos

Career Highlights

Expert in driving sustainability strategies for corporate growth.
Proven track record in strategic leadership across multiple industries.
Passionate about education and community initiatives.

Work Experience

Cummins India

Chief Sustainability Officer (3 mos)

Chief Strategy Officer (5 yrs 1 mo)

Confederation of Indian Industry

Core member, CII - Chief Strategy Officers (CSO) forum (1 yr 8 mos)

Member - CII National forum on industry-academia partnership for R&D and innovation (1 yr 9 mos)

Member - CII taskforce on Green hydrogen (2 yrs 1 mo)

Cummins Inc.

Director, Global corporate strategy (1 yr 8 mos)

Siemens

Head Of Strategy and Digitalization (3 yrs 6 mos)

Siemens Management Consulting

Project Manager (1 yr 7 mos)

McKinsey & Company

Engagement Manager (4 yrs 7 mos)

Summer Intern (0 mo)

Siemens Energy

Executive (manufacturing) (2 yrs 11 mos)

Education

Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at Chinmaya Vishwavidyapeeth

Diploma at University of Mumbai

Master’s Degree at University of Mumbai

PGDM at Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow

B.E. at University of Mumbai

HSC at SIWS Junior College

SSC at SIWS High school

Subramanian Chidambaran

CEO

Pune, Maharashtra, India17 yrs 8 mos experience

Key Highlights

Expert in driving sustainability strategies for corporate growth.
Proven track record in strategic leadership across multiple industries.
Passionate about education and community initiatives.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a strategic leader in sustainability and corporate strategy across diverse industries.

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Experience

Cummins india

2 roles

Chief Sustainability Officer

Jan 2026 – Present · 3 mos

As the sustainability leader for Cummins in India, Subramanian
Helps the region achieve their Environmental goals in line with global Cummins aspirations
Leads the sustainability strategy for the region to address regional needs while advancing the global Cummins ESG strategy
He also is one of the active voices on sustainability and ESG in India by sharing his views through various published articles and speaking at academic and industry forums.

Chief Strategy Officer

Mar 2021 – Present · 5 yrs 1 mo

As the strategy leader at Cummins India, Subramanian
Leads Cummins India strategic plan and road map creation for next 5-10 years
Supports the New power strategy (including hydrogen, Batteries/ energy storage,...) for Cummins in India
Acts as the strategic thought partner for the Cummins India leadership
Previously, he also led the corporate marketing and communication team for Cummins in India.
Subramanian sponsors the Water works initiative of the organisation in India, which focuses on creating a sustainable water ecosystem in the country. He is also very passionate about Education where he works with the Cummins college of Engg for Women (CCEW) around various initiatives.
He loves mentoring and coaching talent and is actively involved in driving the leadership development programs of the organisation.
He is very passionate about training leaders, managers (both within and outside the organisation), and students on strategic thinking

Confederation of indian industry

3 roles

Core member, CII - Chief Strategy Officers (CSO) forum

Aug 2024 – Present · 1 yr 8 mos

Part of the core team that drove the CII India strategy conference 2024 on the topic ‘Strategy in an AI dominated world’

Member - CII National forum on industry-academia partnership for R&D and innovation

Dec 2023 – Sep 2025 · 1 yr 9 mos

Member - CII taskforce on Green hydrogen

Aug 2023 – Sep 2025 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Cummins inc.

Director, Global corporate strategy

Aug 2024 – Present · 1 yr 8 mos

Driving strategic projects with global leaders. Guiding the global corporate strategy team in formulating strategies and solving for strategic issues facing CMI globally.
Actively involved in defining the sustainability road map for the organisation for the next decades.

Siemens

Head Of Strategy and Digitalization

Sep 2017 – Mar 2021 · 3 yrs 6 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

Distribution systems - As the head of strategy and digitalization, am responsible for (1) driving strategic projects for cost reduction, profit improvement, process improvements, sales excellence etc. and (2) lead digital initiatives such as digitizing processes (manual/paper based -> automated/ tool based), incorporating digital features into products and solutions.

Siemens management consulting

Project Manager

Jan 2016 – Aug 2017 · 1 yr 7 mos · Mumbai Area, India

As a senior project manager with SMC, Subramanian worked across Siemens divisions in India, Germany and Singapore across M&A, benchmarking & strategy projects

Mckinsey & company

2 roles

Engagement Manager

May 2011 – Dec 2015 · 4 yrs 7 mos

STRATEGY FORMULATION AND ORGANIZATION
1) Spearheaded the 2-3 year business growth strategy for a leading Indian 3PL player to increase their top line and bottom line by 2-3 times
2) Developed the 5 year business strategy for Lubricants and Aviation fuel business units for a major domestic Oil & Gas player. Also developed their Vision strategy for the Petrochemicals sector
3) Helped a major Global cement player develop the Business strategy for one of their key Business units in Singapore
4) Developed the group operating model for a major Indian conglomerate
5) Spearheaded the work on ‘Market size estimation of Indian machine tool market’ for a major Global machine tool manufacturer
6) Created a transformation strategy for improving the quality of education and governance in 500+ primary schools and 25000+ children for a major municipal corporation in India
7) Helped a major Indian cement player develop their Sales and Marketing strategy and capability to profitably sell nearly 50% of additional output from their plants to the end customer. As a part of this engagement, also developed an “End-to-end Go to market strategy” to boost rural sales as part of this engagement
LARGE SCALE TRANSFORMATION PROGRAMS:
1) Helped a major Indian cement player turn around sales performance and drive on ground impact for 2-3 major sales units within a span of 5-6 months
2) Helped a major Indian cement player streamlin coal handling operations within their plants through adoption of global best practices. Also contributed to a knowledge effort on ‘Creation of model plants for cement players’

Summer Intern

Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 · 0 mo

Helped a major Indian steel player optimize the time required to build thermal power plants. As a part of this, also developed a compendium of 'Best practice methodologies’ to be incorporated in future projects of the client.

Siemens energy

Executive (manufacturing)

Jul 2006 – Jun 2009 · 2 yrs 11 mos

1)Spearheaded the development and implementation of a factory-wide customer order tracking system (sales to delivery)
2) Integral part of the 'Lean manufacturing' transformation at Siemens Kalwa MV switchboards factory