
According to the new Vedanta CEO Srinivasan Venkatakrishnan’s statement shared with PTI in an interview, the firm (oil-to-aluminium group) holds a huge potential to become one of the world’s largest resource companies by expanding outside India without compromising on growth within the country.

Venkatakrishnan, a highly regarded mining executive who worked at AngloGold, one of the world’s biggest gold producers, for 18 years, has taken over as the chief executive officer of Vedanta Resources on August 31, replacing Tom Albanese, the former head of Rio Tinto.
The 53-year-old wants to give it back to India by building the company into a giant producer of commodities, create jobs, and reduce poverty.
"If you look at diversified companies, they come with a bright and strong heritage. Vedanta has a strong heritage in terms of India. Exxon has roots as an American company, BP as a UK company. Likewise, Vedanta starting its root in India I believe can actually grow broader than India without compromising the growth in India, looking elsewhere as well and becoming one of the largest resource companies. I believe this is possible," said Srinivasan.
He further opined the company already demonstrated its potential in terms of the growth trajectory in the past few years. Now the goal is to invest in the more local production of all commodities. In the next two-and-a-half years, the firm is likely to invest US$ 8 billion, according to the report, which would be bigger than what miners like Rio Tinto Group and Anglo have pledged to spend over a similar period.
Expressing gratitude towards Srinivasan, mining mogul Anil Agarwal, who controls Vedanta, told PTI “I am very pleased that he has joined. Everybody knows about him," adding, he is a widely respected business leader in the global resources space and has a strong record managing a complex portfolio of operating assets and projects across Africa.
Venkatakrishnan too communicated his excitement to PTI for joining Vedanta and said "I am hugely excited in joining Vedanta. Certainly what Mr. Agarwal has achieved by building this group into multi-commodity resource company which is not just one of the biggest in India but competing at world stage has been phenomenal and has attracted me hugely to it."
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