Hyderabad: Raghu Vamsi Group, the Hyderabad-headquartered precision aerospace and defence manufacturing group, has appointed Amit Pathak as its Group Chief Business Officer. In his new role, Pathak will lead the group’s commercial strategy and growth across all five business segments.
Amit Pathak brings 27 years of experience in the global aerospace and defence industry, with a career spanning role in engineering, business development, sales, strategy, product marketing, customer support, and programme management.
He joins Raghu Vamsi Group from Collins Aerospace, part of RTX Corporation, where he most recently served as Regional Director for Asia Pacific, the Middle East and Africa, leading international defence account management and sales.
Before joining Collins Aerospace, Pathak served as General Manager and Board Member for Pratt & Whitney’s aircraft engines business in India. He began his career with Honeywell as avionics engineer and went on to lead engineering product development programmes across the company’s facilities in India, Europe and the United States. Over the course of his career, he has also worked with Cobham.
Amit Pathak has also served as industry co-chair of the skills development sub-committee of the US-India Aviation Cooperation Programme and mentors startups developing artificial intelligence and computer vision applications for the aerospace industry.
He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore.
Amit Pathak’s appointment comes as Raghu Vamsi Group expands beyond precision manufacturing into two new areas: advanced materials, including aerospace superalloys, and deep technology and autonomous systems, where the group develops unmanned platforms and indigenous micro turbojet propulsion.
These new areas complement the group’s established businesses in precision OEM manufacturing, mission systems and propulsion, and aircraft systems and MRO.
Vamsi Vikas Ganesula, Managing Director, Raghu Vamsi Group, said, “Amit has spent his career on the customer side of this industry, and he understands better than most what global OEMs expect from a supply partner. As we grow our capabilities in advanced materials and autonomous systems, that perspective will be invaluable. We are delighted to welcome him to the family.”
Amit Pathak, Group Chief Business Officer, Raghu Vamsi Group, said, “Global aerospace and defence companies are steadily deepening their Indian supply base, and Raghu Vamsi is one of the groups making that possible. What attracted me is the breadth of the business. Very few
companies in this country are building capability in superalloys and autonomous systems at the same time, on top of a proven precision manufacturing business. My focus will be on building the customer and partnership relationships that support that growth, in India and internationally.”
The group is AS9100D and NADCAP certified and supplies global aerospace, defence, energy and medical customers. It operates manufacturing facilities in Hyderabad alongside group entities in the United Kingdom and the United States and is commissioning a new integrated campus near Hyderabad’s international airport.
