Today, Pravin Maheshwari joins HINDALCO (www.hindalco.com) as their CFO. Hindalco is part of the Aditya Birla Group, a US $35 billion corporation and in the league of Fortune 500. It is anchored by an extraordinary force of over 133,000 employees, belonging to 42 different nationalities. This year the Group was declared among the top best employers in India by the Aon-Hewitt Survey and ranked second. It was also ranked among the top employers in the Asia Pacific Region. Earlier, the Group has been adjudged among the top six great places for leaders to work in the Asia Pacific Region (The Hewitt Associates, The RBL Group and Fortune Magazine Study 2009). Over 60 per cent of its revenues flow from its overseas operations. The Group operates in 33 countries – Australia, Austria, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, China, Egypt, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Korea, Laos, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Poland, Singapore, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Tanzania, Thailand, UAE, UK, USA and Vietnam.

HINDALCO (US $ 16 billion) is an industry leader in aluminium & copper and also the metals flagship company of the Aditya Birla Group. It is also the world’s largest aluminium rolling company and one of the biggest producers of primary aluminium in Asia. Its copper smelter is the world’s largest custom smelter at a single location. Established in 1958, Hindalco commissioned their aluminium facility at Renukoot in eastern Uttar Pradesh, India in 1962. Later acquisitions and mergers, with Indal, Birla Copper and the Nifty and Mt. Gordon copper mines in Australia, strengthened their position in value-added alumina, aluminium and copper products. The acquisition of Novelis Inc. in 2007 positioned the company among the top five aluminium majors worldwide and the largest vertically integrated aluminium company in India. Today HINDALCO is a metals powerhouse with high-end rolling capabilities and a global footprint in 13 countries.