New Delhi - The Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) has picked Sanjay Swarup for the role of Chairman and Managing Director of Container Corporation of India Ltd (CONCOR). Swarup is currently Director (International Marketing and Operations) at India’s biggest rail hauler of containers. Swarup was selected from a short list of eight candidates, six of whom were from CONCOR.

Sanjay Swarup has been recommended for the post of Chairman and Managing Director, CONCOR, the PESB said on its website after an interview held on Wednesday.

PESB’s recommendation will have to be signed off by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC). Swarup is an Indian Railways Traffic Service (IRTS) officer from the 1990 batch. In a career spanning three decades, Swarup has held assignments in the public sector and Government. He had a four-year stint with Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL) before moving to Indian Railways and worked in areas such as operations, commercial, safety and information technology.

In CONCOR, he has looked after operation and management of dry ports, international marketing, commercial and operations. He has been involved in the designing of dry ports and multi modal logistics parks, as well as strategic planning functions in the company.

Swarup holds a B. E. (Hons) – Electronics and Communications Engineering – from IIT Roorkee and PGDM (Public Policy and Management) from IIM Bangalore.

He is also a life member of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport, Asian Institute of Transport Development, Centre for Transportation Research and Management and All India Management Association.

V Kalyana Rama, the incumbent CMD, will set down from the role on 30 September.  CONCOR has been lined up for privatisation by the government but the formal process is yet to start.