Mr. Niranjan Nadkarni is the Chief Executive Officer of South & Southeast Asia, Middle East & Africa (ASMEA) Region since July 1, 2017. As of Jan 1, 2025, he assumed the additional role of CEO, TÜV SÜD Middle East and TÜV SÜD Middle East LLC.
As a CEO of one of the most diverse regions, his area of focus is to strengthen the company’s value offering by leveraging on personnel and business competencies available across the region. Under his leadership, aligned to the Group’s focus, the region has made significant investments and progress in digital transformation initiatives and commitment to initiatives and services supporting sustainable development.
With over three decades of experience, Niranjan started his career with SKF Bearings India Pvt. Ltd. In 1995, he made an unconventional move to join a five-member team at TÜV SÜD. He then qualified to become a Lead Auditor for management system certification ISO 9001, QS 9000, VDA 6.1 and TS 16949. During this tenure, he performed audits and training in many markets globally, such as USA, Germany, Japan, China, South Korea, ASEAN, and South Asia.
In 1998, he was appointed the head of South India region for TÜV SÜD South Asia. After managing this portfolio for over eight years, Niranjan was appointed as Vice President- Product Services, with the thrust to set up the Product Services portfolio in South Asia. He was instrumental in establishing a network of state-of-the-art laboratories for food, textiles, and leather and planning and implementation of the market expansion strategy. In 2009, he was appointed CEO of TÜV SÜD South Asia, responsible for the firm’s operations across India, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. Under his leadership until 2023, the sub region witnessed double digit growth and built an impressive footprint around digital transformation initiatives. 1 July, 2017, he was appointed as the Chief Executive Officer of South & Southeast Asia, Middle East & Africa (ASMEA) Region. In 2025, He was given the additional responsibility of leading Middle East region as the CEO of the region and TÜV SÜD Middle East LLC . He is also the Member of Board of Management of TÜV SÜD Bangladesh Private limited, TÜV SÜD Middle East and TÜV SÜD PSB Pte. Ltd.
Brought up in Mumbai, Niranjan is a Mechanical Engineer and has a Masters’ degree in Management from Pune University in India. He has also attended modules on Strategy Management, Leadership and Change and Fit4Digital at Executive School of Management, St. Gallen, Switzerland. He is an avid reader and enjoys travelling and cross-country trekking. He is very passionate about nurturing and developing talent and strongly believes in the power of an inclusive and diverse workforce for building a sustainable and responsible business.
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Mr. Klaus Langner was appointed as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of the TÜV SÜD South & South-East Asia, Middle East & Africa region on July 1, 2017. In this role, he is responsible for financial and risk management, corporate development, strategic planning, performance management and corporate governance in this vast and diverse market. Prior to this appointment, Klaus was the CFO for the ASEAN region at TÜV SÜD.
Before joining TÜV SÜD, Klaus was a Partner & Managing Director at a leading strategy consulting firm, The Boston Consulting Group, and brings 16 years of experience in consulting top management on corporate and business unit strategy. He also served as a consultant for the United Nations World Food Program in East Timor and is a passionate advocate for non-profit causes related to improving children welfare, education, disaster and humanitarian relief.
After living in Germany and the United States, Klaus has been based in Singapore since 2001 and worked throughout Asia Pacific. He holds an MBA with distinction from Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management and a Masters in Industrial Engineering and Business Administration from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).
Mr. Mostafa Jassim is the Chief Operating Officer of TÜV SÜD Middle East.
Mr. Jassim is responsible for the strategic planning, budgeting and execution of regional strategy. He also supports risk management, contracts, high net worth tenders, and oversees the business of Abu Dhabi Branch’s sales, operations and management.
He started his career with TÜV SÜD from 2007 and previously held the position of Deputy Managing Director from October 2014. He has contributed in achieving large scale international projects.
He has over 30 years of experience from different industry such as aviation, manufacturing and research & development within UAE and internationally. Prior to joining full time with TÜV SÜD, Mr. Jassim was working as Vice President in Emirates Aviation – Supply Centre, UAE.
He holds an honor degree in Aeronautical Engineering from the University of Manchester, UK. He has also achieved certificate from St. Gallen University, Switzerland specialised in Strategic Management & Leadership Change.
Mr. Yasser Hassan has been appointed Regional Manager for Industrial division in March, 2019 for Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Egypt. He was given additional responsibility of Qatar in March, 2021. He is leading multidisciplinary business units to achieve the strategic objective and financial goals of the region. In addition, he is also responsible for operations, large projects, tenders pertaining to industrial service division.
Mr. Yasser joined with TUV SUD in April 2012 and supported to establish IS division in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Before joining TUV SUD, Mr. Yasser was working with a leading Oil & Gas company for 13 years and handled several international projects in Egypt, Libya, Algeria and Jordan.
Mr. Yasser holds a Bachelor in Mechanical Engineering from Benha University, Egypt. He is a sport enthusiastic and traveler. He is also an authorized inspector from American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and qualified as NDT Level III inspector.
Mr. Rafat Salah Sahib has been appointed as Regional Technical Manager for Middle East in 2016. In this capacity, he is responsible for Middle East Real Estate Division in terms of technical and management of inspector’s competency and training & development. Apart from his regional role, he is also responsible for Abu Dhabi Real Estate (Crane & Lifting equipment department) business, operations and training activities.
He started his career with TUV SUD in January, 2002 as inspection engineer and he was appointed as Operations Manager in 2007. Mr. Rafat has developed numerous training and inspection services and trained many engineers in the company.
Mr. Rafat holds a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering from the University of Technology, Baghdad, Iraq. Also, he has numerous certificates from Lifting equipment Engineering Association, UK.
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