BOARD OF DIRECTORS
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Mr. N. N. Tata (Chairman) | Mr. N.N. Tata is a graduate of Sussex University U.K. and IEP (INSEAD) and has wide experience in the field of marketing, administration and investments. He is the Chairman of Trent Ltd., and Trent Hypermarket Ltd., Chairman of Tata International Ltd., and Voltas Ltd., Director of other prominent companies like Titan Company Ltd, Tata Steel Ltd etc. He had earlier worked with Nestle, U.K. |
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Mr. F. N. Subedar (Vice Chairman) | Mr. Farokh Subedar has vast experience in the areas of company administration, finance, taxation and accounts. He has been on the boards of various Tata companies and has been closely associated with several Tata Non - Banking Financial Companies. Mr. Subedar superannuated from Tata Sons Private Limited (“Tata Sons”) as the Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Subedar also functioned as the Chief Financial Officer and Company Secretary of Tata Sons. Mr. Subedar’s association with Tatas spans over 36 years. He has also been the past President of the Bombay Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Mr. Subedar holds a Bachelor’s degree in Commerce and is a Member of The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and The Institute of Company Secretaries of India. |
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Mr. A. N. Dalal (Executive Director) | Mr. Amit Dalal has obtained his MBA from the University of Massachusetts, USA. He is the Executive Director of Tata Investment Corporation Ltd. and a Director on the Board of various companies and is associated with Charitable Institutions. |
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Mr. Suprakash Mukhopadhyay (Director) | Mr. Suprakash Mukhopadhyay holds the position of Company Secretary and Group Corporate Secretary at Tata Sons Private Limited. Prior to joining Tata Sons, he was the Global Treasury Head and Company Secretary of Tata Consultancy Services Limited. Mr. Mukhopadhyay has an overall experience of 30 years in various roles in many Tata companies. He has exposure and rich experience in dealings in Treasury, Corporate Secretarial & Governance and Compliances. He is a First-Class B. Com (Hons) Graduate from St. Xaviers College, Kolkata. He is a Chartered Accountant, Cost Accountant and Company Secretary. He is a rank holder in the Intermediate and Final examination of Institute of Cost & Works Accountants of India. |
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Mr. Jayesh Merchant (Director) | Mr. Jayesh Tulsidas Merchant is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and also a member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India, a Commerce graduate and LL.B. from Mumbai University. Mr. Jayesh Merchant has a strong professional track record of around 39 years and has held several responsible positions in various reputed companies viz. Asian Paints, UTV Software Communications, ION Exchange India and Castrol. Mr. Jayesh retired from Asian Paints Limited in November 2019 as the CFO & Company Secretary and also as President – Industrial JVs, after serving a long tenure of 17 years. Mr. Jayesh Tulsidas Merchant is an Independent Director of few other companies, including Trent Limited, Voltas Limited, Kotak Mahindra Trustee Limited, Bharat Serums and Vaccines Limited and Chairman/ Member of various Board Committees of companies in which he is a Director. |
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Mr. V. Chandrasekaran (Director) | Mr. V. Chandrasekaran,is a qualified Chartered Accountant, having more than three decades of experience in Life Insurance Finance, Housing Finance and Mutual Fund Investment with adequate exposure to a gamut of investment and process involved in investment decision making, Investment Monitoring & Accounting and Investments Research and Risk Management. |
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Mr. Rajiv Dube (Director) | Mr. Rajiv Dube is an Indian industry veteran with nearly 36 years of multi-sector experience, having served at the the senior levels of two Indian conglomerates - Tata and Aditya Birla. An engineer and a post graduate in business management, he has served on several other Indian and foreign boards in various capacities over 21 years and brings deep insights in corporate governance, management and transformation of businesses as varied as auto, metals, mining, power and renewables, cement, trading, textiles, retail and financial services. An avid sustainability champion, he was an alternate Council Member of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) Geneva and has been active on several industry bodies. Currently, Mr. Dube is an Independent Director on Boards,an advisory board member and professor of practice at the Deakin Business School, Melbourne and a senior advisor to firms in India and Australia. |
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Mrs. Farida Khambata (Director) | Ms. Farida Khambata is Master of Arts in Economics from the University of Cambridge, a Master of Science in Business Management from the London Business School and a Chartered Financial Analyst and has attended the Advanced Management Program at Wharton. She is a Co-Founder of Cartica. She was earlier with International Finance Corporation (“IFC”) and was a Member of IFC’s Management Group, the senior leadership team of IFC. In her last position at IFC, she served as Regional Vice President in charge of all operations in East Asia and the Pacific, South Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean and the Global Manufacturing Cluster. Ms. Khambata joined IFC in 1986 from the World Bank where she managed pension fund assets. She is a Member on the Advisory Board of ADM CEECAT Fund. She has been associated as an Independent Director in Tata Sons Pvt. Limited in the past and is currently serving as an Independent Director on the Board of Tata Steel Limited, Kotak Mahindra Life Insurance Co. Limited and various others. |
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Mrs. Alcie G Vaidyan (Director) | Mrs. Alice G. Vaidyan is a former Chairman and Managing Director of General Insurance Corporation of India, has over 40 years of experience, and is considered among the foremost experts in the insurance and reinsurance industry, in India and across the globe. She joined The New India Assurance Company in 1983 as a direct recruit officer and rose to the level of CMD, GIC in January 2016, the first lady to occupy this position, thereby also becoming the first lady CMD in the Indian insurance industry. During her tenure at the helm of GIC Re, the company became the 10th largest reinsurer globally and was recognised by Forbes as among the 250 best regarded global companies, growth champions and best employers. She also led the largest IPO in the financial sector in India during the successful listing of GIC Re in 2017. Presently she is on the boards of various listed and unlisted companies. Mrs. Vaidyan holds a post graduate degree in English Literature and has received leadership training at Harvard Business School. She is a fellow of the Insurance Institute of India. She is an avid reader and plays the piano in her spare time. |