Prior to this assignment, Raychaudhury served as Steel Authority of India (SAIL) Executive Director (Transport & Shipping Department) in Kolkata.
An IIT (Delhi) Chemical Engineering alumnus, Ray Chaudhury started his career as Management Trainee in 1982 and worked in various key positions during his tenure. Ray Chaudhury successfully handled various commercial activities like; domestic sales, international trade, warehouse operations, retail sales, transport and shipping, vigilance etc.
He played a major role in drafting policy for dealership schemes for increasing the outreach of the products in the rural areas and was responsible in implementing this initiative across the country. Initiatives like working with INSDAG were also taken up in projects for increasing the steel consumption in the hinterland / rural areas.
Ray Chaudhury worked in close coordination with the railways for undertaking large volume of movement of imported raw materials like coking coal / lime stone through the railway system and gained good knowledge in the area of railway logistics during his previous tenure.