Thales Appoints Ashish Saraf Vice-President and Country Director for India

• He succeeds Emmanuel de Roquefeuil who can take up a new job in just Thales
• Ashish Saraf joins Thales from Airbus where he served as the President and Head of Location for Airbus Helicopters – India and South Asia.
• He will direct Thales’ business in India and choose ahead its determination to aid the ‘Aatmanirbhar Bharat’ eyesight of the govt

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Thales declared the appointment of Ashish Saraf as Vice-President and State Director for India. In this position, Ashish will lead the company’s India business and will be liable for the strategic development of Thales in the nation throughout all of its markets, additional strengthening local teams, collaborations and innovation. He succeeds Emmanuel de Roquefeuil who usually takes up a new function as the VP and head for Thales in the Center East.

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Prior to joining Thales, Ashish served as the President and Head of Region for Airbus Helicopters – India and South Asia wherever he led Airbus’ Helicopters’ Profits, Products and services, Training, Innovation, Industrial Partnerships and Federal government Relations functions across the Civil, Parapublic and Armed service marketplaces in the region. Ashish has also served as the Vice-President and Make in India Officer for Airbus, has headed the Tata–Sikorsky joint enterprise in Hyderabad and also labored with Deloitte Consulting and Dassault Systemes, mostly in the United States and Europe.

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“I am pleased to welcome on board Ashish Saraf to the Thales Team, who joins us in really tough COVID problem. Underneath his leadership, Thales will  carry on its a long time-lengthy partnership with our Indian stakeholders to assist the nation in this time of need to have, and once the pandemic behind us, add to India’s for a longer period-time period vision of constructing an ‘Aatmanirbhar Bharat’”  Pascale Sourisse, Senior Executive Vice-President, Thales

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I thank Pascale for her self-confidence and I am pretty happy to be part of Thales the place I will use all my knowledge and energy to provide our actions and staff in India. I would like to express our solidarity as the place bravely battles the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.  We stand united with our workers, their people, our clients and the individuals at huge, and search ahead to beating this pandemic together” Ashish Saraf, VP and Region Director, Thales in India

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Ashish Saraf holds levels in Administration and Engineering from College of London, Cornell College, Symbiosis Institute and NIT India. Also, he has also served as a Board of Director and Member of the Governing Council for Aviation and Aerospace Sector Ability Council (AASSC), a Governmental overall body committed to acquiring nationwide skills in the Aerospace area in India.

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About Thales
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Thales (Euronext Paris: HO) is a worldwide leader in innovative systems, investing in electronic and “deep tech” innovations – connectivity, big data, synthetic intelligence, cybersecurity and quantum computing – to develop a confident long run vital for the growth of our societies. The Group supplies its buyers – businesses, organisations and governments – in the defense, aeronautics, area, transportation, and digital id and stability domains with options, companies and items that help them fulfil their vital position, thought for the specific becoming the driving pressure powering all selections.
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Thales has 81,000 staff in 68 countries. In 2020 the Group produced gross sales of €17 billion. 

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About Thales in India
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Existing in India given that 1953, Thales is headquartered in Noida and has other operational places of work and web sites spread throughout Delhi, Gurugram, Hyderabad, Bengaluru and Mumbai, among the others. About 1,800 workforce are functioning with Thales and its joint ventures in India. Given that the beginning, Thales has been playing an crucial function in India’s growth tale by sharing its systems and experience in Defence, Transportation, Aerospace and Digital Identity and Stability markets. Thales has two engineering competence centres in India – just one in Delhi NCR focused on digital identification and protection business, while the one particular in Bengaluru focuses on components, application and methods engineering abilities for both of those the civil and defence sectors, serving world-wide requires.