Ashwani Gupta

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Ashwani Gupta is a Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. director, representative executive officer and the company’s COO.

Gupta started his career with Renault in 2006 and was instrumental in establishing Renault and Nissan companies in India. Since then, he held several management roles across Renault, Nissan and Mitsubishi. He was most recently a Mitsubishi Motors Corporation representative executive officer and the company’s COO, responsible for all operational aspects of the Japanese automaker’s global business.

Prior to this, Gupta served as Alliance senior vice president of Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi light commercial vehicles (LCV). In 2014 he started as the lead for the Renault LCV business unit, adding responsibility for the LCV businesses of Nissan in 2017 and Mitsubishi Motors in 2018. In its first year as an Alliance business unit, all three brands grew their sales, a direct result of synergies that leveraged complementary products and markets.

Gupta was previously also the global program director for the Datsun business in Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. His roles across the three Alliance partners helped shape his global, multi-dimensional perspective.

An engineering graduate from Jawaharlal Nehru Engineering College, India, Gupta obtained a diploma from INSEAD/CEDEP in France. He also completed management courses at Harvard Business School, London Business School, IIEM and IMD.