GE has appointed Vishal Wanchoo as President & CEO of GE South Asia effective October 1.

This comes after Banmali Agrawala’s exit from GE to join Tata Sons as President of its infrastructure, defence and aerospace business.

Speaking about this announcement, John Rice, Vice-Chairman, GE, said: “We have succeeded in building a robust team under Banmali’s leadership and have achieved key business milestones in the region. We are confident that Vishal will bring his experience as a senior leader in strengthening GE’s growth in the region. Wanchoo has been with GE for almost 20 years, where he started his career with GE in November 1997.

He has been a GE Officer since 2005 and has held several senior leadership positions in the company.

Until now, Wanchoo was the Commercial Growth Leader for GE’s Global Growth Organization.

Prior to his role as the commercial growth leader, he was heading Business Development, Growth & Strategy for GE South Asia and earlier to that was running GE’s global Healthcare IT business (HCIT) in the US.