Pune, 12 June 2026 — SKF India (Industrial) (NSE: SKFINDUS | BSE: 544572), India’s leading technology and solutions provider for industrial applications, has announced the appointment of Madhu Dhandhania Jalan as Director – (GCC) & Finance Operations Centre (FOC) for India, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East (ISEAM), SKF India (Industrial).
In her new role, Madhu will lead the development and scaling of SKF’s GCC organisation, strengthening regional capabilities, driving finance operations, strengthen governance and accelerating transformation and building a robust global delivery backbone to support the company’s growth ambitions.
“I am honoured to join SKF at an important point in its growth and transformation journey across the region,” said Madhu Jalan, Director – GCC & FOC, ISEAM, SKF India (Industrial). “I see a significant opportunity to build future-ready capabilities, strengthen operational excellence, and create a scalable platform that supports business performance and long-term value creation.”
Madhu brings significant leadership experience across global finance operations, shared services, and transformation, with a strong track record of building high-performing teams, simplifying complex operating environments, and delivering operational efficiency at scale. Her appointment will support SKF’s ambition to advance agility, standardisation, and scalable capability creation across the region.
Madhu brings more than two and half decades of cross-sector leadership experience spanning finance, audit and consulting, banking, telecommunications, logistics, and e-commerce. Prior to joining SKF, she worked at Amazon, Maersk Global Service Centres, Tata Teleservices, Tata Communications, Avaya, ICICI Bank, and Bharti Airtel.
Madhu is a Chartered Accountant from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and holds an Executive MBA from the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta.
Since 1907, SKF has been making some of the world’s most innovative bearings, seals, lubrication systems, condition monitoring solutions, and services to reduce friction. Less friction means more energy saved and by reducing it, we make industry smarter, more competitive, and more energy efficient, building a more sustainable future where we can all do more with less. SKF is represented in approximately 130 countries and has around 17,000 distributor locations worldwide. Annual sales in 2025 were SEK 91,583 million and the number of employees was 37,271. www.skf.com
