About Us

Automotive Lead is one of India’s popular auto B2B news journal. Keeping an eye on latest technologies worldwide,  we predominately cover the developments in the Indian auto sector.

Our media entity has media partnerships with more than 20 domestic and international events related to auto and allied sectors. It delivers exclusive news on the Indian and global automotive industry. Our news coverage span across latest auto technologies, electric vehicle, auto components, vehicle manufacturing, aftermarket, shop floor practice, raw material &  supply chain management, sales & marketing, garage equipments and other latest trends in the auto segment.

Founder : Anitha Jaishankar, BA., MSc., LLB.

Anitha Jaishankar started her career in one of the world leading multi-national company GE Fanuc after completing her post graduation in MSc Industrial Psychology. After a considerable stint, she resigned the job despite its high career growth and pursued LLB to become an Advocate. She also tried her hands in Journalism with a successful stint of more than 7 years in one of India’s popular media house “The Indian Express.” She is multi-talented, multi-lingual, down to earth and regarded as angelic and entrepreneurial personality in her circle of family and friends. She successfully launched a magazine christened Automotive Lead, which was the biggest in size among other b2b automotive journals with international standard when it was launched. It also has a news portal that is quite popular among the auto b2b daily news readers in India. Now her dream projects are being carried forwarded by her husband and children.

Automotive Lead houses a strong editorial team comprising experienced journalists from business journalism and automobile industry.

Editor : Jaishankar Jayaramiah

JAISHANKAR JAYARAMIAHJaishankar Jayaramiah is a well-known India-based award-winning international Journalist and columnist, who is familiar for his multi-subject expertise, especially in business Journalism. Many of his write-ups remained as game changers in the Indian trade industry while also guiding the government to chalk out its policies. An Engineer-turned Journalist Jayaramiah has worked for Autocar Professional, Automotive World , The Financial Express, The New Indian Express among others before heading the Editorial team in Automotive Lead magazine. Jayaramiah has extensively traveled across India , writing on multiple subjects and also visited countries like Japan,, Germany, Italy, China, Taiwan, Singapore, Thailand, Hongkong, Sri Lanka, Maldives etc.  Don’t wonder if you find a story on coffee or agriculture or even on politics when you Google his details as he has written on almost all subjects during his 20-year journey so far in Journalism. While keeping automotive as main beat all along his career, he has also covered all other verticals under Old & New Economy. For the past few years, he has been focusing only on B2B Automotive niche. Personally he likes to write more on the government policies; international trends related to automotive industry and new auto technologies.

Mail : automotiveleadnews@gmail.com

Twitter : Journalist_Jai

Facebook : jaishankar.jayaramiah

Environment and Technology Reporter : Devvyaani J

Devvyaani, who has much interest in green technologies, feels happy when she writes on clean energy part of the automotive sector. She is also equally interested in writing on autonomous car related technology developments.

Photographer / Correspondent: Sthamba Kalyani

Sthamba Kalyani has a passion for photography and also for writing on the automotive field. Her photography skill is well acknowledged by the industry leaders.