BorgWarner Inc, Auburn Hills, Michigan-based global mobility innovation product major has appointed Indian American finance and technology executive Rajesh Kalathur to its Board of Directors.
“We are pleased to welcome Raj to BorgWarner’s Board of Directors,” stated Alexis P. Michas, Non-Executive Chairman of the Board of BorgWarner in a company news release. “Raj’s extensive global leadership experience across finance, information technology, operations, and sales will be invaluable to our Board.”
Kalathur most recently served as President of John Deere Financial and Chief Information Officer of Deere & Company, a global leader in the production of agricultural, construction, forestry, turf, power systems, and other solutions, which he joined in 1996 and from which he retired in 2026.
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In these roles, he led Deere & Company’s financial services business segment with more than $70 billion in assets and oversaw enterprise-wide global information technology and cybersecurity functions. Prior to these roles, Kalathur served as Deere & Company’s Chief Financial Officer for more than six years.
As CFO and CIO, Kalathur was responsible for advising the CEO and division presidents on major financial and strategic growth issues and for managing Deere & Company’s worldwide financial and planning functions.
He was also responsible for business planning and development and investor relations as well as responsibility for the company’s information and technology function – a move to help position information technology as a strategic competitive advantage for Deere.
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Before joining Deere, Kalathur served as Operations Research Consultant at American Airlines and as Instructor and Research Assistant at University of Alabama.
Kalathur holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the National Institute of Technology in Jamshedpur, India, a Master of Science in Industrial Engineering from the University of Alabama, and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business.
For more than 130 years, BorgWarner has been a transformative global product leader bringing successful mobility innovation to market, according to the release.