Agratas
Tom Ashfield currently serves as the Head of Business Office in R&D at Agratas, where the focus is on supporting technical colleagues with strategic and commercial initiatives to expand the company's presence in India and the UK. Prior to this role, Tom's experience at JLR included positions as Manager for JLR and Tata Group Battery Programmes, Manager of Corporate Development, and Senior Financial Analyst, spanning from May 2018 to December 2023. Tom also worked at PwC as a Senior Associate in Transaction Services from September 2014 to April 2018, and began a career as a Finance Analyst at Goldman Sachs from June 2012 to June 2013. Tom's educational background includes a Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree in Mathematics from the University of Bath and a qualification from ICAEW obtained between 2014 and 2017.
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Agratas
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Agratas is a wholly owned subsidiary of Tata Sons. We design, develop and manufacture high-quality, high-performance, sustainable batteries applied to multiple use cases in the mobility and energy sectors, to match our customers’ requirements. We will accelerate the global transition to net zero by creating an industry-leading benchmark in sustainability. Our world-class gigafactories will be powered by purpose-built renewable energy plants. We will also embed circular economy processes throughout our value chain to reuse, recycle and recover materials back into production. We will serve customers in Passenger Vehicle, Commercial Vehicle, 2 and 3 Wheeler and Energy Storage Solution (ESS) industries, supplying state-of-the-art high energy density NMC and long lasting LFP battery cells. Agratas will also support its customers with the integration of cells into their applications, such as modules and packs. We have already secured two anchor customers, Tata Motors and JLR. They provide us with the scale to establish our global battery business. Agratas will be driven by our pursuit of green growth and technological progress. We will develop next-generation battery technologies at new R&D Innovation Hubs in India and the UK, collaborating with world-leading universities, research institutions and strategic partners. We are a scale-up business with a start-up mentality. Our name, derived from the Sanskrit word ‘Agra’, the world’s oldest language, stands for leadership. It reflects our ambition to be purpose driven, pioneering power for future generations.