Schaeffler India has appointed Seshan Iyer as the President - Industrial India. In his new role Iyer will be responsible for formulating and executing the strategy to drive the growth of Industrial Business for Schaeffler India. He brings almost three decades of experience with various organizations in the Industrial Business domain.

His last role was with Bonfiglioli Transmission as Vice President Sales & Marketing where he was responsible to steer the Industrial Business for Bonfiglioli in India which included driving OE and channel sales, managing new business development for various Industrial sectors, formulate growth strategies, identify, develop and launch new products for target markets and competence building of the sales team. Earlier to that, he held various sales leadership roles at Dalmia Refractories, TDW India and Cooper Roller Bearings Company. Iyer was also previously associated with Schaeffler as Head OEM Sales – Heavy Industry & MRO.

He will be based at Schaeffler's India corporate office in Pune and report to Harsha Kadam, MD and CEO.