Private investment firms TPG has named Zubin Irani to a senior leadership position in its operations group in Asia-Pacific. As a managing director at TPG, he will focus on further building out the firm's operations capability, and help implement performance improvement and talent management across TPG's portfolios in the region.
Irani will relocate to Singapore from New Delhi, India, where for the past nine years he held senior positions at United Technologies Corporation (UTC), a cutting edge technology company, most recently as president, building and industrial systems and country head for India.
Prior to that, he spent six years with the global management consulting firm, McKinsey, in the US after an education that included the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the US and the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.