SKF India Appoints Madhu Dhandhania Jalan to Lead Regional Finance and GCC Operations

SKF India Industrial Limited has announced the appointment of Madhu Dhandhania Jalan as Director of its Global Capability Centre and Finance Operations Centre for the India, Southeast Asia, and Middle East geographic region. In this regional leadership capacity, Jalan will oversee the structural development and scaling of the company's captive capability organization. Her core mandate includes strengthening regional financial governance, accelerating corporate transformation initiatives, and establishing an integrated global delivery network to support the manufacturer's long-term commercial growth targets.

Jalan joins the industrial technology and bearings specialist with over 25 years of cross-sector executive experience across finance, audit, consulting, corporate banking, telecommunications, logistics, and e-commerce segments. Her professional background includes previous managerial and operational roles at prominent corporations including Amazon, Maersk Global Service Centres, Tata Teleservices, Tata Communications, Avaya, ICICI Bank, and Bharti Airtel. Academically, she is a certified Chartered Accountant from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and holds an Executive Master of Business Administration from the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta.

Commenting on her new position, Jalan stated that the current regional expansion presents a clear opportunity to construct future-ready operational capabilities, drive centralized performance excellence, and build a highly scalable delivery platform designed to enhance overall business efficiency. The company notes that her corporate track record of restructuring complex shared service environments and building high-performance technical teams aligns directly with the brand's ongoing push for operational agility and standardized administrative processes across its emerging markets.

The parent SKF Group, which originally commenced global engineering operations in 1907, remains a dominant manufacturer of specialized bearings, seals, industrial lubrication systems, and machine condition monitoring technologies. The multinational corporation maintains an active commercial presence across roughly 130 countries, backed by a global network of 17,000 authorized distributor locations. According to its latest financial disclosures, the global group employed 37,271 people and generated total annual sales of 91,583 million Swedish Kronor during the 2025 fiscal year.